ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

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ATISAlliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions

• Presentation to NRIC-VI
• Ross K. Ireland
• Senior Executive VP - Services
• SBC Communications
• Chairman, ATIS Board of Directors
• September 13, 2002

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What is ATIS?

• A not-for-profit, U.S. based, organization of
  global communications companies.
• Created at divestiture
• Technical standards
• Operational Methods
• Business Processes
• 128 member companies
• All industry segments

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ATIS and NRIC Historical Relationship

• At the conclusion of NRIC activity
• NRC-1
• Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC)
  created
• NRC -2
• Internetwork Interoperability Test Coordination
  (IITC) Committee established
• ATIS Board members and committee leaders have
  chaired one or more Focus Groups on each Council.

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ATIS Emergency Preparedness and Security
Activities Include

• Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS) in
  Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
• Electromagnetic Pulse and Physical
  Stress/Radiation Effects
• Priority Access Service for GSM
• Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance
• Emergency Services Interconnection Forum (ESIF)
• Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC)

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Time For A Change

• Proliferation of standards fora and consortia
  having a negative impact on the industry
• Overlap of work redundancies
• Draining resources (people and dollars)
• Fragmented U.S. view in the global arena
• Industry standards priorities are not always
  answered
• Timeliness
• Coordinated
• Interoperable
• Implementable

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ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council

• Board level committee created to provide a
  platform to explore and advance technical and
  operational initiatives tendered by the ATIS
  membership.
• Top 20 list of technical and operational issues
• ATIS SVoIP Summit outputs provided to NRIC VI
  Focus Group 3

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A New Formula for NRIC?

• Focus Groups define and steer work to ATIS
  committees,
• ATIS committees do the work.
• Reduced start-up time
• Industry experts already in place
• Savings to industryredundancies
  reduced/eliminated
• Speed to Market

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How ATIS Can Help

• ATIS and its 18 committees continue to support
  the work of NRIC and stand ready to provide
  further support to this Council.
• Public Safety ESIF
• (Focus Group 1C)
• Network Reliability NRSC
• (Focus Group 2)

• Operational Standards
• E911Wireless/Wireline
• PSAP
• E911 Capacity
• Alert Notification

• Monitor/analyze outage data
• Establish/reinforce standards

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How ATIS Can Help

• Interoperability NIIF, T1
• (Focus Group 3)
• Broadband T1A1 - Quality Standards
• (Focus Group 4) T1E1 - DSL Standards
• T1M1- OAMP Standards T1P1
  Wireless Standards
• T1S1 Signaling Standards
• T1X1 Optical Standards

• SS7 and VoIP Standards
• Network Management Standards