ATIS has 16 committees and forums with over 600 representatives from 200 different member companies. Learn more about the work of our specific groups below. Two important tools, the ATIS Contributions Database and Telecom Glossary can be reached here:
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A brief description of ATIS' committees:
simplifies the receiving, shipping, transportation, and tracing of telecommunications products through company and industry business processes—as well as the global supply chain. This ATIS committee establishes guidelines for common shipping labels, product marking labels, product changes, and software issuance standards. Through participating in the AIDC, ATIS members benefit from developing standardized industry solutions that may contribute to reducing costs, avoiding re-work expenses associated with implementing a non-industry solution, and preventing purchase of data capture equipment or software incompatible with developing guidelines. They also help drive reductions in product life-cycle costs by identifying and standardizing new technology for product and package identification.
facilitates the adoption and advancement of cloud services from a network and IT perspective. Drawing upon business use cases that leverage cloud services’ potential, the Forum addresses industry priorities and develops implementable solutions for this evolving marketplace. CSF is working to ensure that cloud services – as offered by service providers – are quickly operationalized to facilitate the delivery of interoperable, secure, and managed services. Current priorities include inter-carrier telepresence, content distribution network interconnection, cloud services framework, virtual desktop, virtual private network, and development of a cloud services checklist for onboarding.
explores how the introduction of new technologies impacts network synchronization. It also acts as the primary reviewer of contributions to the ITU-T. One critical recent initiative is examining the impact of GPS systems. At its core, COAST’s work consists of developing and recommending standards and technical reports for home, access, and transport network and synchronization technologies over copper and optical mediums. Its four subcommittees include Network Access Interfaces (NAI), Optical Access Networks (OAN), Optical Hierarchical Interfaces (OHI), and Synchronization (SYNC).
provides a venue to facilitate the identification and resolution of technical and/or operational issues related to the interconnection of emergency services networks with other networks (e.g., wireline, cable, satellite, Internet, etc.). The committee’s discussions focus on the application of current and emerging technologies to maintain and support the interconnection of emergency services networks.
is the leading developer of requirements, standards, and specifications for IPTV. Globally recognized, IIF develops some of the key innovations that are revolutionizing the way media will be experienced and are making a host of new and interactive entertainment options a reality. It does this by developing standards and facilitating related technical activities including testing for solutions in the areas of IPTV architecture, metadata, quality of service, and security.
ensures all parties requesting numbers in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) are working from the same guidelines. Committee members include service providers, equipment manufacturers, and numbering administrators. INC provides an open forum to address and resolve industry-wide issues associated with planning, administration, allocation, assignment, and use of NANP numbering resources within the NANP area.
meets the evolving needs of the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry through managing and administering the International Mobile Subscriber Identities (IMSI), the 15-digit numbers used with mobile phones that allow service operators to identify mobile terminals for purposes of international roaming. The IOC’s management function becomes increasingly important with efforts to explore whether IMSIs will have a key role in the public safety coding systems and enabling the M2M capabilities of next generation networks.
addresses issues related to the fast-paced growth in emerging new technologies and applications and their impact on the integrity of the telecommunications network. This committee develops operating procedures involving the network aspects of architecture, disaster preparedness, installation, maintenance, management, reliability, routing, security, and testing between network operators. NGIIF work addresses some of the leading issues in facilitating the smooth transition from the PSTN to IP-based networks. Most recently, it also has made contributions to address the network traffic implications of auto-dialers. And, after carefully examining available industry data and being unable to determine a specific root cause for call failures, it conducted an in-depth survey to explore issues of call completion/call termination challenges in an effort to improve call completion rates—an issue of great concern for rural carriers. NGIIF is coordinating this effort with its membership, the FCC, rural carriers, and rural associations.
develops best practices to prevent telecommunications system outages, report on them, and reduce their impact. The industry looks to the ATIS NRSC as the experts in developing best practices in this area. The NRSC addresses network reliability improvement opportunities in an open, noncompetitive environment and maintains a user-friendly industry best practices website for knowledge-sharing. It advises the industry primarily through developing and issuing standards, technical requirements, technical reports, bulletins, and filings to the FCC to advise on the innovation needed to advance and improve telecommunications system reliability.
provides a forum for telecommunications customers and providers to identify, discuss, and resolve national issues that affect ordering, billing, provisioning, and exchange of information about access services, other connectivity, and related matters.
is a group comprised of specialists who meet annually in a conference to share a common interest in the electrical protection of communications facilities.
is a leading force in ensuring the network performs its best. It develops and recommends standards, requirements, and technical reports related to the performance, reliability, and the associated security aspects of communications networks, as well as the processing of voice, audio, data, image, and video signals and their multimedia integration. It also develops and recommends positions on, and fosters consistency with, standards and related subjects under consideration in other North American and international standards bodies.
develops and recommends standards and technical reports related to services, architectures, and signaling, in addition to related subjects under consideration in other North American and international standards bodies. It reviews and prepares contributions on such matters for submission to U.S. International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Study Groups, and reviews the acceptability of other countries’ positions as they relate to standards development.
identifies, develops, and implements the resolution of issues impacting existing toll free products and services and evolving technologies affecting future developments in the toll free industry. The Committee provides recommendations regarding design and management issues that have a direct effect on the system users. SNAC maintains the Industry Guidelines for Toll Free Number Administration and is a leader in developing standards and procedures for the interaction among responsible organizations, customers, and service providers.
provides the telecommunications industry with critical information regarding the energy consumption of telecommunications equipment and the environmental impact of the materials from which they are made. It develops the standards and technical reports for telecommunications equipment and environments in the areas of energy efficiency, environmental impacts, power, and protection. Its four subcommittees are: STEP Network Electrical Protection (NEP), STEP Network Physical Protection (NPP), STEP Telecommunications Energy Efficiency (TEE), and STEP Network Power Systems (NPS).
develops operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning standards, as well as other documentation related to Operations Support System and Network Element functions and interfaces for communications networks. Its emphasis is on standards development related to U.S. communication networks in coordination with the development of international standards.
coordinates and develops standards related to wireless/mobile services and systems. It reviews and prepares contributions for consideration as ITU contributions or other domestic and regional standards organizations. The WTSC also coordinates closely with other standards-developing organizations such as TIA, IEEE, and ETSI. Among other efforts it has provided key standards underpinning the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), the U.S. emergency communications network enabling users to receive via their enabled mobile devices, alerts issued by the President, those involving imminent threats to safety of life, and Amber Alerts.
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