The UPnP Forum, a global leader in standards for device discovery and control, and Itophome, a leading industry consortium for home networking in China, announced today a cooperation framework to advance interconnection and interoperability between UPnP and Itophome devices. For consumers, seamless connectivity and hassle-free networking are concerns in the adoption of new applications such as multimedia networking. To help develop the market for home networking products, the two groups have agreed to cooperate to provide interoperability in future versions of their respective standardization efforts.

The UPnP Forum and Itophome were each established by their respective member companies to create interoperability and networking standards. Under the formal liaison agreement, members of the UPnP Forum and Itophome will work together on future generations of networking standards to provide interoperability between devices. This will include committee chair meetings and joint plugfests and interoperability events during 2005 and subsequent years.

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