ATIS Interoperability

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ATIS Interoperability
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT GSC14-PLEN-074
FOR Presentation
SOURCE ATIS
AGENDA ITEM Plenary 6.11
CONTACT(S) Art Reilly (arreilly_at_cisco.com)

• Art Reilly, Cisco

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Highlight of Current Activities (1)

• Technical standards development including
  contributions to the ITU-T and other global
  standards groups
• ATIS Network Interconnection Interoperability
  Forum (NIIF) focuses on network interconnection
  and interoperability
• network architecture,
• management,
• testing and
• Operations, and
• facilitates the exchange of information
  concerning
• these topics.

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Highlight of Current Activities (2)

• ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)
• Currently working on Use and Test Cases for
  ATIS-0800009, Remote Management of Devices in the
  Consumer Domain for IPTV Services (Issue 72)
• Software Download
• Remote Device Management Configuration and
  Provisioning
• Remote Device Monitoring
• PTSC Next Generation-Carrier Interconnection
  (NG-CI) Task Force
• Currently working to develop an IP network to
  network interconnection guideline that will
  provide physical configuration, protocol suite
  profile, operational information to be exchanged
  between carriers, and test suites in order to
  support conformance and interoperability testing.

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Strategic Direction

• Since 1984, ATIS has frequently reviewed the
  range of options to assess how it could most
  effectively promote interoperability, e.g.
• Develop technical standards, and programs to
  inform industry about these standards
• Provide guidelines to facilitate interconnection
• Conduct Interoperability tests
• The rapid pace of technology development, the
  desire to promote innovation and to address user
  needs responsively have led ATIS to focus
  primarily on the development of technical
  standards and increasing industry knowledge of
  these standards
• Complementing this, ATIS provides guidance
  related to interconnection, e.g. templates,
  testing, and occasionally sponsors targeted
  testing programs.

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Strategic Direction

• In parallel with its standards development
  activities, ATIS has had open forum to facilitate
  discussion and resolution of the operational and
  interoperability issues necessary to effectively
  interconnect multiple service provider businesses
• The NIIF, in general, developed guidelines and
  templates for interoperability and, where deemed
  appropriate, testing
• In several very special cases, ATIS has sponsored
  one-time, interoperability testing programs to
  meet targeted, national needs, e.g.
• Stress testing of Signaling System 7
• Note ATIS and its members have played prominent
  roles in FCC Advisory Committees on the topics of
  interoperability and interconnection.

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Challenges

• Standards processes, while promoting
  interoperability, should also foster innovation,
  competition and infrastructure development that
  address user needs on a timely and cost-effective
  basis.
• The inclusion of options, ambiguities, etc. in
  standards make interoperability more difficult,
  but reflect the realities of consensus-development
  and the need for users to decide what features
  and capabilities meet their needs.
• Compliance with technical standards does not
  guarantee interoperability.
• Innovations in user applications and in network
  capabilities to support them are driving the
  development of standards.
• Product cycles have become shorter and shorter
  over time to accommodate increasing features and
  capabilities to address user needs.
• The pace of innovation will continue to
  accelerate.
• Standards from the ITU and the PPSOs are not the
  only standards that impact the interoperability
  of ICT products and services.

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Next Steps/Actions

• ATIS groups are continuing to develop standards
  that can be used to promote interoperability and
  facilitate interconnection negotiations. This
  includes contributing to the ITU and global
  standards efforts.
• ATIS will continue to outreach to others to
  inform them regarding technologies, applications
  and their standards
• ATIS will continue to partner with other PPSOs
  and the ITU on efforts that effectively promote
  interoperability, innovation, competition, and
  cost-effective infrastructure deployment to
  address market needs on a timely basis.
• As it has in the past, where appropriate, ATIS
  will host specific interoperability testing
  programs that address targeted industry needs
  (none planned currently).

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Supplemental Slides
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Additional Current Activities (1)

• Technical standards development including
  contributions to the ITU-T and other global
  standards groups
• ATIS Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
  (PTSC)
• ATIS Performance Reliability and Quality of
  Service Committee (PRQC)
• ATIS Telecom Management and Operations Committee
  (TMOC)
• ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)
• ATIS Home Networking (HNET) Forum
• ATIS 3GPP effort

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Additional Current Activities (2)

• ATIS members continue to work with colleagues
  around the world to progress NGN interoperability
  through the development of interface and
  performance standards including in the ITU-T and
  3GPP.
• The focus is on specifications on topics such as
• Services
• Architecture
• Signaling
• Quality of Service
• Security
• Network Management
• Emergency Communications
• Identity Management

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Additional Current Activities (3)

• ATIS Network Interconnection Interoperability
  Forum (NIIF)
• provides an open forum on industry-wide issues
  associated with telecommunications network
  interconnection and interoperability which
  involve network architecture, management, testing
  and operations and facilitates the exchange of
  information concerning these topics.
• The NIIFs Network Inter-Operability Committee
  (NIOC) addresses issues related to installation,
  maintenance, management, and testing guidelines
  for interconnected telecommunications and
  signaling networks

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Additional Current Activities (4)

• ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) Testing
  and Interoperability Committee
• develops the necessary test scripting and test
  planning for the interoperability of ATIS IIF
  standards and addresses IPTV interoperability
  issues, providing recommended courses of action
  for mitigation of the identified issues.

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Additional Current Activities (5)

• PTSC Next Generation-Carrier Interconnection
  (NG-CI) Task Force
• Mission - develop an IP network to network
  interconnection guideline that will provide
  physical configuration, protocol suite profile,
  operational information to be exchanged between
  carriers, and test suites in order to support
  conformance and interoperability testing.
• Scope - A testing environment and tests will be
  defined that can be used to perform
  interoperability testing of various services
  between two carriers. Initial focus of the NG-CI
  TF will be voice and VoIP services
  Interconnection over IP-based links/networks.