The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is to hold its first interoperability event for IPTV later this month, testing the interoperability of ITU standards, with outcomes of the event to be fed into the standards development process.

Standards produced by the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) which will be tested at the event will include: H.701 (error-recovery), H.721(IPTV terminal), H.740 (audience measurement), H.750 (metadata), H.761 (ginga-NCL), H.762 (lightweight interactive multimedia) and H.770 (service discovery).  The first two days of the event will be dedicated to interoperability testing of ITU-T standards.

Days three and four of the event (to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 20th to 23rd July) will be a showcasing event at which companies can demonstrate the interoperability of their products.