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Standards & Interop in ICT ETP’sPanel 1:

The food Chain R&D->Standards->Products & Services-Timing and

course of R&D output

•Sophia-Antipolis, October 23-24th 2006 •By Jean-Michel DUPONT, Thomson•jean-michel.dupont@thomson.net

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Thomson: Images & Beyond

Thomson is a world leader in digital video technologies. Serving the global Media & Entertainment industries, the Group is organized

in three divisions – Services, Systems and Technology.

employees in 2006Core Business revenues 2005

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Content Distributors

Content Creators

Users of Thomson Technologies

Three Client Categories

IT Electronics Telecoms

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Thomson Worldwide

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICADecember 2005

14 973

EUROPE

December 20059 107

APAC

December 2005 2 170

Genuinely multicultural Genuinely multicultural

Thomson’s Divisions

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Network Services

Services Division

Content Services

Theatrical Services

Home Entertainment Services

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Systems Division

Triple-play solutions

Professional products and video network head-ends

Network Access products - Set-top boxes

Home networkingWorld leader

in access gateways

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Technology Division

8 research labs

A unique portfolio of 50,000 patents

Security & Software

Silicon solutions

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Innovation valorisation chain

• All 3 Businesses value Technology with different speed :

• SERVICES SOLUTIONS with immediate implementation and utilisation for best interest of our customers

> Interoperability is most of time used

• SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS providing systems and products to market at right time

> One model of dissemination is standardisation but this is not the only one.

> Standard “de facto” is existing and answering fast need of market.

• TECHNOLOGY long term visibility, development and valorisation patent portfolio.

> Standard is must but again not only one way.

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European Technology Platform

• Move to NEM as convergence of Networks and Medias is core issue for IST industry.

• European platform is place where main stakeholders agreed on next years Research challenges in ICT.

• NEM should help speed up standardization and interoperability processes

• NEM should help defining priorities between Interoperability, Forums, Standardisations

• NEM should coordinate actions for European test bed and integration platforms

• NEM could help in promoting new standards

THOMSON leadership in:

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