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“This Time for Africa”Study Group 12 in a Nutshell Joachim POMY, Senior QoS Expert OPTICOM, Germany www.opticom.de Where it All Begins:Real Communication Situation ... and where Technology comes to Play:Employing a Telecommunication System SG 12 Mandate ‘Performance, QoS and QoE’ Responsible for Recommendations on performance, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) for the full spectrum of terminals, networks and services ranging from speech over fixed circuit-based networks to multimedia applications over networks that are mobile and packet based. Included in this scope are the operational aspects of performance, QoS and QoE. A special focus is given to interoperability to ensure end-to-end users satisfaction. SG 12 is the Lead SG on QoS and Performance/ITU-T/studygroups/com12/index.asp SG 12 Recommendations E.420-E.479, E.800-E.859 G.100-series, except G.160-, G.180- and G.190-series G.1000-series I.350-series (including Y.1501/G.820/I.351), I.371, I.378, I.381 P-series, except P.900-series Y.1220-, Y.1530-, Y.1540-, Y.1560-series/ITU-T/recommendations/index_sg.aspx?sg=12 SG 12 Leading Team Chairman Chuck Dvorak (United States) /net/ITU-T/info/sg12.aspx Vice Chairmen Paul Barrett (United Kingdom) Vladimir Efimushkin (Russian Federation) Gamal Amin Elsayed (Sudan) Hyung-Soo Kim (Republic of Korea) Qi Feng (China) Catherine Quinquis (France) Akira Takahashi (Japan) Hassan Talib (Morocco) TSB Support Judit Katona-Kiss, Counsellor Sarah Scott, Assistant SG 12 Key History Events (1) Established in 1957 Separate SG 16 for Transmission Planning Old SG 12 just did subjective testing telephone standards At CCITT Plenary Assembly in 1984, these SGs were merged to form the present-day SG 12 During same time SG 12 had a Laboratory WP Subjective objective testing for loudness of telephones In the CCITT Laboratory in Geneva - closed in 1988 Since 1986 Speech Quality Experts Group (SQEG) To better provide the quality requirements and subjective testing