ITU-T

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ITU-T ITS PROCESS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• Ardhendu Ganguli
• Consultant ITU-TSB
• ganguli_at_itu.int

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WHY THIS PRESENTATION

• ITU PROVIDES UNPARALLELED PLATFORM
• PRIVATE SECTOR RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF ITU
• MEMBERSHIP IS WORTHWHILE
• IDENTIFYING ITU-T ACTIVITIES
• INCREASING VISIBILITY,KNOWLEDGE AND HENCE
  INFLUENCE
• SUBMIT TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION
• GAINING A PRACTICAL INSIGHT
• LEARNING FROM OTHERS

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ITU-T  STANDARDIZATION

• REGARDED BY INDUSTRY AS ITUS MAIN FUNCTION
• THE LARGEST PLATFORM
• THE PARTICIPANTS
• STUDY QUESTIONS
• WORK PROGRAMMES
• PARTICIPATION TO STANDARDIZATION WORK
• INFLUENCE

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ITU-T RECOMMENDATIONS DEVELOPMENT

• Recommendations (standards), are non-binding,
  generally complied with because
• GLOBAL standards, agreed on CONSENSUS basis
• THOROUGH and TRANSPARENT technical study
• Guarantee INTERCONNECTIVITY / INTEROPERABILITY

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ITU-T RECOMMENDATIONSDEVELOPMENT (Cont.)

• provide a hallmark of RELIABILITY
• provide ECONOMY OF SCALE
• 2,800 Recommendations on 82,000 pages

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ITU-T RECOMMENDATIONSDEVELOPMENT (Cont.)

• SPECIAL PROJECTS
• IMT-2000 Network Aspects (SSG)
• Call Back (SG3)
• Accounting Rate Reform (SG3)
• TMN (SG4)
• ASN.1 (SG17)
• IP Cablecom (SG9)
• QoS and Performance (SG12)

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ITU-T RECOMMENDATIONSDEVELOPMENT (Cont.)

• IP (SG13)
• NGN/GII (SG13)
• Access Networks (SG15)
• Optical Networks (SG15)
• Mediacom 2004 (SG16)
• E-commerce and E-business (SG16)

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WEB access to Study Groups
Study Group 4 (T.M. lead SG on TMN) as an Example

• Information
• Documents
• Meeting Information
• TIES account and access to the iFTP area required
  for the following
• Recommendations
• Guides, Tools and Templates
• Special Projects and Issues
• Alternative Approval Process (AAP)
  http//web.itu.ch/ITU-T/com4/aap/index.html

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INTERNET PROTOCOL(IP) DOCUMENTS

• Internet Protocol (IP)-based Networks
  (Contribution to the Secretary-Generals Report
  to the Council) WinWord PDF
• Version 5 of the IP Project description WinWord
  PDF
• Framework for the Y.1000 Recommendation Series on
  IP Related Issues

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Framework for the Y.1000 Rec. Series on IP Issues

• Y.1000 Series General
• Y.1100 Series Services and Applications
• Y.1200 Series Architecture, Access, Network
  Capabilities and Resource MGMT
• Y.1300 Series Transport
• Y.1400 Series Interworking
• Y.1500 Series QoS and Network Performance
• Y.1600 Series Signalling
• Y.1700 Series OAM
• Y.1800 Series Charging

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MEADIACOM 2004

• MEDIACOM 2004 Project Description - Version 2.0,
  June 2001
• Actual list of Recommendations related to the
  MEDIACOM 2004 Project
• Contact persons for the updating of the MEDIACOM
  2004 Project

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MEADIACOM 2004 LIST OF REC.S

• Architecture
• Applications services
• Interoperability
• Coding
• Security
• Accessibility

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Relationship with other Standards Development
Organizations (SDO)

• Foster awareness (with other SDOs, forums and
  consortia) within ITU-T
• Coordinate and cooperate
• To reduce duplication, inconsistencies
• Assure that ITU-T work provides added value
• Continue to participate in appropriate
  coordinating bodies

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Relationship with other Standards Development
Organizations (SDO) (Cont.)

• Examples
• International Organizations (e.g. ISO, IEC)
• National or Regional SDOs e.g. IEEE, ETSI, TTC,
  TTA
• Forums and Consortia e.g. IETF, ATMF, FR Forum,
  TM Forum.

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ITU-T MEMBERSHIP

• HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BE A MEMBER
• MEMBER STATES
• SECTOR MEMBERS
• ASSOCIATES
• CONTRIBUTORY UNITS
• VALUE OF THE UNIT FOR 2000 AND 2001
• SECTOR MEMBERS CONTRIBUTORY UNIT
• FOR AN ASSOCIATE

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LOOKING AHEAD

• New Technologies
• The building blocks for tomorrows high-speed
  networks
• Enhance the capacity of existing networks
• Optical Switching, ATM, SDH, WDM and DSL
  technologies
• Study of IP based systems in nearly all of the 13
  ITU-T Study Groups
• Changeover to IP can not be overnight

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LOOKING AHEAD (Cont.)

• Neither can it be for most of the Operators,
  isolated and exclusive
• Operation and Management solutions for PSTN-IP
  hybrid networks are being planned
• For third generation mobile networks standards
  defining enhanced management and security
• Basic works on fourth generation mobile networks

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CONCLUSIONS

• DEMONSTRATED ITS ABILITY TO COPE WITH THE
  REGULATORY CHANGES
• EVOLVED IN THE FACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEMANDS
• ADAPTED TO THE RAPIDLY CHANGING MARKET PLACE
• USERS BELIEVE ITU-T AS THE PRE-EMINENT GLOBAL
  STANDARDS BODY
• PRESTIGE AND CREDIBILITY OF A LONG-STANDING
  GLOBAL STANDARDIZATION BODY