This International Standard describes the general guidelines for typical applications of the home multimedia gateway in home networks supporting IP networking.

This standard specifies recommended functions and services to be supported by the home multimedia gateway and, where appropriate, refers to existing standards supported in the market. For general requirements, it is expected that widely adopted standards and technologies will be considered by implementers.

This standard gives supplementary application to IEC 62481, which specifies a central management model in home network supporting various interfaces in LAN side and WAN side (optional).

This standard is applicable to home multimedia gateways in the home network or networks of similar environment.