Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)

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Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions(ATIS)
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT GSC14-PLEN-073
FOR Presentation
SOURCE ATIS
AGENDA ITEM Plenary 4.2
CONTACT(S) Susan Miller (smiller_at_atis.org)

• Susan Miller
• President and CEO, ATIS

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ATIS Highlight of Current Activities

• ATIS identifies and addresses the industrys
  market-driven priorities and develops end-to-end
  technical and operational standards that promote
  interoperability and support the business of its
  members.
• Business/technology priorities are identified by
  ATIS executive-level Board and Councils (TOPS
  Council, CIO Council,) and addressed in ATIS
  groups with the goal of tying business objectives
  to the needed standardized solutions.
• Resulting work items and recommendations are
  implemented within ATIS and in coordination with
  other industry organizations.

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ATIS Highlight of Current Activities

• 2008 Priorities Identified and Assessments
  Completed
• Home Networking (HNET)
• HNET Forum launched in February 2009 to enable
  the interoperability, interconnection, and
  implementation of an IP-based, end-to-end
  standardized home network solution.
• Service Oriented Networks (SON)
• SON Forum launched in March 2009 to develop
  practices and standards to support an open and
  flexible SON ecosystem, including new standards
  and the integration of existing standards that
  promote Web 2.0, IMS, and SOA interworking.
• Next Generation Carrier Interconnect (NG-CI)
• The Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
  (PTSC) launched a Task Force in April 2009 to
  address the near term needs of the industry with
  regards to service provider interconnection to
  deliver advanced services.

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ATIS Highlight of Current Activities

• 2009 Board Priorities
• Green Initiative
• ATIS adopted a Green Mission to reflect the
  importance of sustainability to the organization
  and its members.
• ATIS Network Interface Power and Protection
  (NIPP) Committee continues its development of
  standards addressing energy efficiency.
• The Board-launched Exploratory Group on Green
  (EGG) is addressing the role of ICT in reducing
  carbon emissions and promoting energy efficiency.
• ATIS initial report on Environmental
  Sustainability released in March 2009.
• Policy Management Focus Group (PM-FG)
• The PM-FG will assess Policy Management from a
  network perspective with particular emphasis on
  aspects of Packet Processing, Convergence and
  Policy Charging Control.

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ATIS Highlight of Current Activities

• Facilities Consolidation Task Force (FC-TF)
• The FC-TF will work to further investigate the
  technical- and business-related issues of
  facilities consolidation including identification
  of the technologies and methodologies which
  present opportunities for cost savings in
  consolidation.
• Carrier Ethernet
• A workshop is being planned to address and
  identify any actions to support the continued
  development of Carrier Ethernet, and related
  Layer 2 and 3 standards from a global
  perspective. 
• IPTV Ongoing Priority
• ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) continues
  to lead the industry in the development of IPTV
  standards, successfully completing its work on
  broadcast linear TV (Phase 1), proving the
  applicability of its standards in a major
  interoperability test event, and launching an
  expanded scope of work to include interactive
  services.

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Strategic Direction

• Increase innovation, responsiveness, relevance
  and focus on delivering standards that advance
  the needs of our members business and technology
  goals in an economically challenging time.
• Engage broader involvement of non-traditional
  sectors which includes acknowledging the
  integration of IT and network and the provision
  of entertainment by more traditional companies -
  all with the goal of enabling companies to
  provide services with an interoperable,
  media-rich, service oriented network.
• Continuing emphasis on Green efficiencies by
  developing standards that support our members
  triple bottom line and promote the benefits of
  ICT to increase energy efficiencies and reduce
  GHG emissions.

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Challenges

• Continue industrys paradigm shift away from
  (network/service) domain specific ideologies and
  allegiances supporting a converged approach to
  communications.
• Enabling the successful uptake of innovative
  ideas and new industry directions, while
  preserving and utilizing investments in existing
  infrastructure and technologies.
• Developing standards which enable the
  monetization of new services and capabilities.
• Involving/retaining experienced standards
  participants (i.e., resources) with a good
  understanding of the converged network, the
  technologies, and overall direction of the
  industry.

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Next Steps/Actions

• Continue to enlist broader engagement of the
  non-traditional sectors in the standardization
  process applications developers web services,
  and content/entertainment companies,
• Implement actions resulting from ATIS
  initiatives on the Home Network, Service-Oriented
  Networks, and Green in our newly launched forums
  and continuing committee and executive level
  work.
• Continue to engage ATIS executive-level Board to
  assess industrys strategic business direction
  and subsequent technical/operations needs.
• Continue to assess new models by which standards
  can best be developed to respond to marketplace
  opportunities and demands.
• Foster continuing collaboration amongst
  industrys standards developers to meet the needs
  of our common industry direction, economize our
  resources, and maintain an environment of
  innovation and advancement through demanding
  times.

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Supplementary Slides
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Green Initiative

• ATIS Green Mission
• ATIS and its members are committed to providing
  global leadership for the development of
  environmentally sustainable solutions for the
  information, entertainment, and communications
  industry. The development of these innovative
  end-to-end solutions will
• Promote Energy Efficiencies.
• Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
• Promote Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
• Promote eco-aware business sustainability.
• Support the potential for societal benefits.
• For more information visit www.atis.org/green

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Exploratory Group on Green Report on
Environmental Sustainability

• The EGGs report, entitled ATIS Report on
  Environmental Sustainability, March 2009
  discusses sustainabilitys increasing global
  importance and the role that ATIS leadership
  could bring to these efforts.
• The EGGs report evaluated various sustainability
  aspects including
• the ICT sectors definition of sustainability
• a review of the ICT sectors current green
  initiatives
• an examination of energy efficiency practices and
  alternate energy sources
• an outline of the business drivers behind the ICT
  sectors sustainability actions and
• a demonstration of the ICT industry as an enabler
  of applications and services that improve energy
  efficiency in other sectors.
• The EGG concluded that the ICT industry is
  well-positioned to play an integral role in Green
  House Gas Emissions (GHG) reduction and if
  properly leveraged, the ICT industrys vast
  resources can enable wide-ranging GHG-reducing
  solutions.
• The report is available for download at the ATIS
  website.

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ATIS Standards for Energy Efficiency and
Hazardous Waste

• ATIS Network Interface, Power, and Protection
  Committee (NIPP) develops and recommends
  standards and technical reports related to power
  systems, electrical and physical protection for
  the exchange and interexchange carrier networks,
  and interfaces associated with user access to
  telecommunications networks. Efforts relating to
  the Green Initiative occur in the following
  subcommittees and working groups
• The Telecommunications Energy Efficiency
  Subcommittee (NIPP-TEE) develops standards and
  technical reports which define energy efficiency
  metrics, measurement techniques and new
  technologies, as well as operational practices
  for telecommunications components, systems and
  facilities.
• The Network Physical Protection Subcommittee
  Pb-free Working Group (NIPP-NPP PWG) proposes,
  develops, and recommends Standards and Technical
  Reports relating to the use of lead or the
  restriction of lead in solder used in the
  manufacturing of telecommunications network
  equipment.
• For more information, please visit
  www.atis.org/NIPP

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Service Oriented Network Forum

• SON Forum Mission
• The SON Forum will enable the interoperability
  and implementation of Service Oriented Network
  (SON) applications and services by developing
  standards, providing coordination for the
  development of standards and practices, and
  facilitating related technical activities. This
  forum will place an emphasis on
  telecommunications industry needs in
  collaboration with regional and international
  standards development programs in the
  telecommunications, IT and Web industries.
• SON Forum Task Forces Three task forces have
  been formed to address the initial technical work
  stemming from the SON Workplan
• -Policy and Data Models Task Force
• -OSS/BSS and Virtualization Task Force
• -Service Delivery Creation and Enablers Task
  Force
• For more information please visit www.atis.org/SON

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Home Networking Forum

• HNET Forum Mission The Home Networking Forum
  enables the interoperability, interconnection,
  and implementation of IP-based home networking
  systems/services by proactively examining
  technologies and services and developing
  solutions supporting the rollout of these
  technologies and services, when appropriate. This
  forum will place an emphasis on ATIS member
  company needs in coordination with other regional
  and international standards development
  organizations.
• For more information, please visit
  www.atis.org/HNET

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IPTV Interoperability Forum

• The IIF enables the interoperability,
  interconnection, and implementation of IPTV
  systems/services by developing ATIS standards and
  facilitating related technical activities. This
  forum places an emphasis on North American and
  ATIS Member Company needs in coordination with
  other regional and international standards
  development organizations.
• Phase 1 completes the IIFs standardization of
  linear television service (i.e., basic
  television) over an IP network.
• Work has already begun on the IIFs Phase 2,
  which will enable interactive services, including
  on-demand applications and pay-per-view
  programming.
• The IIF's Phase 3, targeted to commence in 2011,
  will focus on IPTV's most demanding applications,
  such as multi-party video conferencing and
  next-generation gaming.
• For more information, please visit
  www.atis.org/IIF