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ATIS Member Companies Deliver Insight at @ CTIA WIRELESS® 2012
If you missed ATIS’ Executive Roundtables at International CTIA WIRELESS® 2012, held May 8 in New Orleans, you missed out on insights from some of the industry’s leading minds on telco’s hottest topics: the monetization of cloud services, the M2M economy, and advancing carrier services. Panelists represented a cross-section of ATIS member companies. Broad media coverage extended the reach of their messages. Access the coverage.
ATIS Creates New Solutions for Content on Demand Across the Internet and DRM Interoperability
The ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) has released two new standards. One will help expand viewers' IPTV options beyond their service provider's offerings to encompass a host of new Web-based video content. The IPTV Content on Demand Service (ATIS-0800042) standard, updates a previous version of this standard to accommodate access to content sourced not only from within the service provider, but also from across the Internet directly from the content provider. The other new standard, IPTV DRM Interoperability Requirements (ATIS-0800001) establishes requirements for security solutions for IPTV, including new requirements for secure download, device identity and authentication, and subscriber authentication. Learn more.
ATIS Awards Recognize Innovation in Standards Work and the Creation of Business-Driven Solutions
ATIS has announced the recipients of its 2012 Annual Awards, recognizing these leading technology experts and industry subject matter experts for their innovative contributions to information and communications technology (ICT) standards development and support of ATIS committees and forums. Read the press release or view pictures from the event.
ATIS Technical Report Addresses Two Key Aspects of Telepresence: Interoperability and Interconnectivity
ATIS’ Cloud Services Forum (CSF) announces the release of a Technical Report entitled Cloud Framework for Telepresence Service (ATIS-0200005), providing a high-level architecture and deployment models addressing two key aspects of a telepresence service: interoperability and interconnectivity. This is an evolving document establishing a foundation for the development of a product-agnostic, global telepresence solution for true interoperability. This report is available in the ATIS Document Center.
GENBAND’s Fred Kemmerer Named Chair of ATIS TOPS Council
Join ATIS in welcoming Fred Kemmerer, CTO, GENBAND, as the new chair of the ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council. Elected to the position by the ATIS board, Kemmerer is an experienced telecommunications executive with a broad background in a variety of technologies, including Wireless, IP and Multiservice Switching and Routing, Next Generation Core Networks and Broadband Access. As GENBAND’s CTO, he is responsible for setting the company’s strategic technical direction. Prior to GENBAND, Kemmerer held a broad range of positions at Lucent and then Alcatel-Lucent.
ATIS Issues Major Network Optimization Recommendations
To help alleviate the growing demand for bandwidth, the ATIS Network Optimization Focus Group released a report that contains major recommendations for helping networks become more efficient at handling traffic growth while maintaining a high quality of experience for end-users. Specific network optimization actions may impact how and when traffic is routed, policed, shaped and prioritized, and may include employing optimization functions such as caching, TCP optimization, signaling proxies, video rate adaptation/compression, or buffer management techniques. Learn more.
ATIS Launches Focus Group to Address Opportunities in the Emerging M2M Field
ATIS launched the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Focus Group to analyze seizing core opportunities through standards work for communications solutions as they pertain to M2M as well as Smart Grid and the connected vehicle. An initiative of ATIS’ Technology and Operations Council, The focus group will work on several use cases that involve vehicle data, smart electric meters and other information to assess standards issues. Learn more.
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