Bringing the Telecommunications Industry Together

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Bringing the Telecommunications Industry
Together ATIS The Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry Solutions 1200 G
Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone
202/628-6380 Fax [phone] www.atis.org
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What is ATIS?

• A member organization of U.S., North American and
  International telecommunications companies
• The sponsor of fifteen critical industry
  committees, which address the most pressing
  technical, operational issues affecting telecom
  facilities and services.
• ATIS sole purpose is to provide an open,
  established environment where the industry
  reaches consensus on technical, operational, and
  business issues.

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What is ATIS?

• ATIS produces telecommunications...
• standards
• guidelines
• operating procedures
• verification testing
• . . .that provide innovative responses to complex
  industry problems.
• . . .that speed new telecommunications products
  and services to market.

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What is ATIS?

• ATIS activities involve 3,000 participants from
  400 telecommunications companies.
• ATIS member companies and committee participants
  represent every segment of the industry.

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What is ATIS?

• ATIS Member and Committee Representation
• Local Exchange Carriers
• Wireless Carriers
• Manufacturers of Equipment and Supplies
• Internet Service Providers
• Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
• Software Developers
• Data Local Exchange Carriers
• Interexchange Carriers
• Resellers
• Operations Support Systems Providers
• Consulting Companies

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Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions (ATIS)
Internetwork Interoperability Test Coordination
(IITC) Committee
Committee T1
Network and Services Integration Forum (NSIF)
Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF)
International Forum on ANSI-41
Standards Technology (IFAST)
Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC)
Carrier Liaison Committee (CLC)
Standards Committee O5
Protection Engineers Group (PEG)
Data-Aware Transport Activity (DATA)
Industry Numbering Committee (INC)
Network Interconnection Interoperability Forum
(NIIF)
Ordering Billing Forum (OBF)
Telecommunications Fraud Prevention Committee
(TFPC)
Generic Requirements Users Group (GRUG)
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ATIS Committees Address Critical Industry Issues
Best Practices
Interoperability Testing
Electronic Communications
Technical Requirements
Standards Development
Ordering, Billing and Provisioning
ATIS Committees Forums
Network Operations
Interconnection
Network Reliability
Wireless
Numbering
Electrical Protection
Telecommunications Fraud
Generic Requirements
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ATIS Relationships Facilitate the Work of Its
Committees
ITU
CTIA
IETF
NANC
ETSI
CITEL (S. America)
FCC
ANSI
Department of Commerce
ATIS
U.S. Congress
NIST
USTA
U.S. Dept. of Defense
IPDR
U.S. State Department
TIA (U.S. Manufacturers)
TTC/ARIB (Japan)
TTA (Korea)
TMF
ALTS
COMPTEL
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What Makes ATIS Unique?

• Not a trade association/lobbying group
• Formed in 1984 as an industry initiative to
  develop technical requirements, guidelines and
  operational standards procedures
• Open to all sectors of the industry
• Market driven, standards developer
• Fosters a public/private partnership that assists
  regulatory bodies thereby minimizing regulatory
  intervention
• Openness, Fairness, Speed are Core ATIS Values

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Core ATIS Values

• Core ATIS Values are mutually-agreed upon
  principles that allow an increasingly diverse
  and competitive industry to find common ground
  and determine only the most appropriate
  solutions for the industry.

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Core ATIS Values

• Fair and Open Processes
• Nondiscriminatory through Fair Rules
• No Favoritism of Technology, Position or Result
• No Favoritism Among Industry Groups or Individual
  Firms

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Core ATIS Values

• Value of Fair and Open Processes
• Enhance Industry Communication
• Promote Understanding of Technical and Business
  Concepts
• Provide More Opportunity for Constructive Inputs
• Permit Faster, Efficient Coordination of Network
  Advances
• Ensure Development of Better and Faster Services