Motorola's vision is to provide users with universal, uninterrupted access to information, entertainment and commerce regardless of device or network. Many in the industry share this vision and our belief that global standards are the key to making it a reality.

Pushing innovation forward

Standards help make innovation happen faster. For example, common platform architectures can deliver real economies of scale and act as a catalyst for industry growth. As a result, consumers experience more choice, lower costs and more value with the services, applications and content that are available to them.

At Motorola, we know that standards allow our engineers and researchers to focus on the next big idea without having to design every component involved. Standards make it possible for Motorola and our customers to introduce new, market-ready equipment and technologies with less time-to-market and fewer risks.

A driving force in industry standards

Motorola has played a key role in major industry standards and forums since their emergence in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Working within global standards bodies, Motorola has helped to define new markets as in the case of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the most popular mobile phone standard in the world. We have also helped existing customers adapt to new standardized technologies, such as APCO Project 25, a set of common technical standards for land mobile radio systems, which has allowed different emergency/public safety agencies to communicate with one another.

Contributing leadership across the board

Today, Motorola participates in dozens of standards bodies, assuming a leadership role in those key areas for each of our major businesses, including mobile devices, public safety, home networks and enterprise. Below are some examples of current activity in standards:

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• Fixed-Mobile Convergence:  Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) is a crucial strategic step toward next-generation telecommunications. As an illustration of its utility, consider a person at home using a combination of applications at the same time, each one delivered on a different network. For example, the home user could be collaborating via teamworking software, speaking on the phone and watching a video stream. FMC enables the user to package these applications at the push of a button and take them all on the road via a single mobile device.

In addition to users, fixed and mobile telecommunications operators also see new opportunities in FMC. Operators can expand the menu of applications they offer, and they can compete for customers outside the traditional boundaries of their businesses.

Motorola is driving FMC standards by leading the development of cross-network handover mechanisms, by establishing a framework for offering common sets of services across different networks, and by working with operators in various industry groups to define use cases and the technology to enable converged services.

• Home Multimedia Networking:  The creation of an ecosystem of consumer devices that can easily connect and communicate to share and render multimedia content is the key to fully realizing the vision of moving multimedia in, out and around the home. Motorola is involved in developing and promoting a wide range of technical standards to enable such an ecosystem. Industry groups that Motorola engages in to support this include the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and the Universal Plug and Play Forum (UPnP Forum). Motorola participates in all aspects of UPnP and DLNA standards development, such as ecosystem development, guidelines development and the necessary security mechanisms to help make these standards a success in the marketplace.

In the home multimedia networking ecosystem, wireless networking is seen as a key enabler. To enhance the wireless home user experience, Motorola is actively engaged in the efforts in the IEEE Standards Association to extend the IEEE 802.11 family of standards into optimal solutions for the transport of high-definition audio and video within the home networking environment. In addition to supporting the technical standards development underway in the IEEE-SA, Motorola, as an active member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, is also helping to ensure reliable interoperability of wireless-enabled home networking devices through our participation in multiple Wi-Fi Alliance Task Groups, as well as serving on the Wi-Fi Alliance Board of Directors.

• IPTV and Video:  Video is now an exciting element of the overall user experience, and Motorola is committed to video-related standards to support "any device, any time, anywhere" user scenarios. Motorola continues to be active in video coding standards such as MPEG and ITU-T, which have produced global standards for high-definition TV, and both scalable and multi-view video. Evolution of video applications using interoperable products across a wide spectrum of services over fixed and mobile networks are facilitated by several system standards being developed in standards bodies and industry forums, including ITU-T, ATIS, ETSI, Open IPTV Forum, DVB, CableLabs and 3GPP.

Motorola is developing end-to-end video systems solutions based on such standards, and video is an important part of media mobility. Intersection of TV and the Internet is providing new innovative possibilities for IPTV standards which are spanning traditional regional and market boundaries while offering increased convenience and entertainment for users.

• Mobile Broadband:  Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA) is the natural evolution of cellular technologies. It aims to bring the experience of the Internet to mobile devices and will provide ubiquitous, seamless, coverage. To drive this convergence, it is necessary for the industry to take into account the reliability, system quality and regulatory issues that surround the mobile environment. Motorola is leveraging its unique position in the wireless industry — as both a fixed and mobile wireless broadband equipment provider — to drive the industry toward standards adoption. Motorola holds numerous chair seats in the Partnership Projects that are defining standards for Next Generation cellular technologies such as 3GPP and 3GPP2. Motorola was also a member of the original IEEE 802.16 committee and currently sits on the WiMAX Forum's Board of Directors.

• TV White Space:  In response to the ever-increasing demand for radio spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission in November 2008 approved the use of vacant television spectrum, often referred to as TV White Space radio spectrum, by unlicensed devices. Motorola has been active in work in this area by proving in laboratory and field-testing that geo-location-based methods are a viable means of identifying television signals and preventing interference. In February 2009, Motorola also joined forces with other companies to form the White Spaces Database Group to advance the development of the information needed to utilize TV White Space radio spectrum.

Motorola is also actively engaged in industry standards such as the IEEE 802.22 standard that defines the requirements for fixed devices to operate in TV White Space.