ATIS' President & CEO, Susan Miller, Named a Top Woman in Wireline

At the end of July, FierceTelecom published its first annual “2010 Top Women in Wireline” recognizing influential women in the wireline segment of the telecom industry. Susan Miller, was honored as one of the Top Women in Wireline  for her work as the CEO of ATIS.  FierceTelecom based its selections on its interaction with members of the wireline industry  segment, observations and reader input.

Since taking the top helm of ATIS in 1999, Susan Miller, a former telecom attorney, has become a major force in driving telecom industry standards. As the CEO of ATIS, Miller and her team have helped develop new standards for major service provider service sets, including IPTV and home networking. Read the full article.

Technology and Operations Council Initiatives and Updates

Policy Management Assessment and Recommendations
The Technology and Operations Council has completed a 12 month study of the issues associated with the industry’s fragmented approach towards Policy Management. Knowing that data volumes will continue to grow, many service providers have concluded that it is unrealistic to focus exclusively on deploying additional capacity to address this problem. Further, to provide a consistent end-to-end user experience, different networks must manage policy with coordinated, synchronized solutions. As such, Policy Management tools have been identified as a means of achieving greater network efficiency, and maximizing installed network capacity.

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Are You IPv6 Ready?
The TOPS Council's "Readiness Plan for IPv6 Transition" provides tools which enable organizations to assess current capabilities using defined readiness levels while simultaneously identifying transitional strategies. View all reports produced by the TOPS Council related IPv6 here.

Consolidation and Convergence Task Force
Upon completion of The Facilities Consolidation Task Force (FC-TF) final assessment in February 2010, several issues were identified that warranted further study. Therefore, the ATIS TOPS Council endorsed a “Phase 2” assessment named Consolidation and Convergence Task Force (CC-TF) to address issues related to the transition of network facilities and technology platforms in a multi-carrier environment. This phase will expand upon the evaluation and conclusions developed in FC-TF’s report and will address consolidation and convergence issues related to the utilization of new technologies, disaster recovery, business & regulatory considerations, standards development and environmental sustainability.

The ATIS CIO Council

ATIS’ CIO Council provides the industry’s premier venue for service-provider, CIO-level representatives to proactively identify and resolve challenging IT issues of common interest. The Council also provides direction with the development of industry standards, whitepapers and best practices supporting its priority initiatives. Currently, the Council counts AT&T, BT, CenturyLink, Qwest, TELUS, U.S. Cellular and Verizon as members, and is Chaired by Verizon’s CIO Shaygan Kheradpir.

Committee Updates

IPTV Interoperability Forum
ATIS, through the IIF, is developing the industry’s end-to-end solution for IPTV. Standards for provision of traditional broadcast over IPTV networks in complete and the IIF is now working on standards for delivering Content on Demand (COD) and targeted advertising.

WTSC Considers Commercial Mobile Alerts Services for LTE
ATIS’ Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee (WTSC) has initiated work on Commercial Mobile Alerts Services (CMAS) for LTE. Materially, this work enables the Federal Emergency Management Agency to accept and aggregate alerts from the President of the United States, the National Weather Service, and state and local emergency operations centers, and then send the alerts over a secure interface to participating wireless providers.

ESIF Launches New Work on NGN Emergency Services
ATIS’ Emergency Services Interconnection Forum (ESIF) has undertaken two new issues: Standardization of Request for Assistance Interface (RFAI) Specification, and conveying access subscription and other access information to the PSAP in the context of an IP-originated emergency call.

ATIS Presents Live Webinars

On September 30, 2010, ATIS will present a Webinar titled: Policy Management Standards - Toward a Common Architecture Framework. Policy Management is emerging as a key component to unlocking latent network potential. Exponential growth in data and video traffic – compounded by widespread smart phones and netbook adoption – will continue to put pressure on network capacity. This webinar will discuss the ATIS Policy Management Focus Group’s findings, provide analysis and outline actionable strategies to enable successful policy management interworking, and ultimately lay the groundwork for industry’s common policy architecture.

Join Sean Buckley, Editor for Fierce Telecom; Naseem Kahn, Principal Member of the Technical Staff for the Core Network & Technology Organization of Verizon; and Fred Kemmerer, Chief Technology Officer for GENBAND, for this important discussion.
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On November 16, 2010, ATIS will present a Webinar titled: IPTV Quality of Service - A Standards Perspective. During this Webinar industry experts will examine how IPTV Service Quality standards are evolving, improving service quality management (SQM), and enabling efficiencies which lower costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Join Dr. Ken Kerpez, Co-Chair of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Form Quality of Service Metrics Committee and Senior Scientist for Telcordia Technologies, and John Williams, Director of Emerging Markets, Alliances for JSDU as they discuss IPTV QoS.
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