September 24, 2009
Telephony Online: The Missing Piece in Service-Oriented Networks
(Third in a series of three articles) The telecom industry has seen a blizzard of software developers kits (SDKs) and open application programming interface (API) introductions in recent years...
September 22, 2009
Telephony Online: SON opens door to Web 2.0 sales - Telcos position themselves to sell billing or other functions to Web providers, in addition to streamlining internal functions
(Second in a series of three articles) While new service oriented networking (SON) offers telcos a chance to better use their resources and develop new services for residential and business customers...
September 22, 2009
IT News Online: Broadband Network Energy Efficiency Summit Paves The Way For Aligned Industry Advancement
Building on current network energy efficiency efforts, expanding the promotion of broadband’s dematerialization benefits, identifying standards gaps and new opportunities for future collaboration...
September 22, 2009
Finchannel.com: Alcatel-Lucent signs European Union’s Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment
The FINANCIAL -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) on September 22 announced that it has signed the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment...
September 2009
Public Safety Communications magazine for APCO International INC: Best Practices for Emergency Notification System (ENS) Call Volume Testing Procedure: Wireline
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), on behalf of its Network Interconnection Interoperability Forum ’s(NIIF) Network Inter-Operability Committee (NIOC), recently posted a new document, Best Practices for Emergency Notification System (ENS) Call Volume Testing Procedure: Wireline, on its Web site...
September 8, 2009
Telephony Online: Here Comes the SON - Service-Oriented Networks Aim to Bridge Web 2.0, Telco Divide
(First in a series of three articles) Recent trends have changed radically the way telcos view communications -- including how, when and what services they deliver and want to provide...
September 1, 2009
Communications Daily: The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions said its Network Reliability Steering Commmittee Released Recommendations about Planning for Pandemics.
Local Governments should anticipate the possibility of high 911 call volumes, work with local media to tell the public not to call 911 for flu symptoms, and provide directions for where to seek appropriate medical help, ATIS said...
August 13 , 2009
TMCNET.COM: Management Is Key to Better IPTV
The latest broadband and IPTV statistics suggest continuing impressive growth in the face of the global economic downturn...
August 12 , 2009
9-1-1 Magazine: Entering the Next Next Generation: Vendor-Driven Technologies that will Affect Your Comm Center
Text messaging. Imagery and streaming video feeds. Instant messaging. What do all these terms have in common?
July 28, 2009
Cisco's Green Czar Leads Green Product Design
Marcoux's mission as “Green Czar” is to make Cisco’s products more energy efficient and less impactful to the environment. His challenge is to make changes to a sizable product portfolio at various stages of its lifecycle...
July 22, 2009
Communications Daily: IPTV Standards Aim to Improve Content Delivery, Development, Market Adoption
IPTV standards are critical to discovering service providers reachable over the network and what they offer, speakers said in a webinar Tuesday organized by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions...
July 20, 2009
Communications Daily: The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions expanded its IPTV Interoperability Forum to include standardized delivery of Internet-sourced content over a managed network
The group’s work had focused solely on TV services delivered over a network operator’s private network infrastructure…
July 17, 2009
TMCnet.com: Power Protection and Management
Power protection and management is, like security, one of those topics that we all know is important, but we don’t actually pay much attention to it until disaster strikes. My collection of five Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) – capable of handling perhaps a 20-minute power outage – had served me well for many years. Then one day there came an eight-hour blackout...
July 14, 2009
IPTV News : ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum to include OTT video within remit
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has expanded the remit of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) to include the standardised delivery of Internet-sourced content over a managed IPTV network...
July 14, 2009
ITVT: ATIS' IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) Expands Focus to Include Over-the-Top Video
Standards-development organization, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), announced Monday that it is expanding the focus of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) to include over-the-top video...
July 13, 2009
Communications Daily: The Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions said it supports an anti-faud caller ID bill (HR-1110) introduced by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.
The group sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee urging passage of the bill to prevent caller ID spoofing because the industry has limited resources for dealing with the problem, an ATIS media statement said...
July 13, 2009
Light Reading: ATIS Ponders Over-the-Top Video
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced today that the mission of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) will be expanded to include the standardized delivery of Internet-sourced content over an IPTV network. Until this time, the IIF has concentrated on delivery of a TV service over a managed IP network...
June 13, 2009
Green Telecom Live: ATIS Lays Out Green Telecom Creed
The telecoms industry has four main goals when it comes to going green and achieving sustainability, says the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), a technical planning and standards development organizations for the industry, who more or less summed it up in its Report on Environmental Sustainability earlier this month...
June 10, 2009
Billing World : Ericsson Proposes New Energy Measurement Standards
Up to half of a carrier’s costs come from energy consumption. So finding new ways to measure and reduce that consumption – and, dare we say it yet again, go green – are always welcome, right? So hopes Ericsson (ERIC)...
June 3 , 2009
Telephony Online: ATIS: Policymakers need to understand 'green' ICT
Report says industry should educate government officials more on benefits of telecom and computing on sustainability...
June 1, 2009
Telephony Online: Economy not slowing ATIS
Telecom industry companies, including service providers and equipment vendors, are not cutting back on their participation in ATIS committees and forums in light of the economy, said Susan Miller, president and CEO of the organization, but the method of participation is changing...
June 1, 2009
Telephony Online: Telecom technicians with extensive IP background
IP training is required — and sometimes scarce — as telecom networks evolve away from discrete hardware to software-defined systems...
May 14, 2009
Light Reading Eurpope: Recent Moves in Green Telecom
Not too long ago the telecom service providers, and their suppliers, discovered the virtues of promoting the green face of business...
May 13, 2009
Communications Daily: 3GPP Finalizes LTE Standards; 4G for Public Safety Expected
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Standards group 3GPP has finalized the standardization of Long Term Evolution and 4G standard updates, which address public safety systems, are well under way, speakers said in a Tuesday webinar hosted by the Alliance for Telecom Industry Solutions...
May 11, 2009
Telephony Online: ATIS CEO: Universities asked to adapt telecom training
Two major groups send revised requirement documents asking for more IT and Ethernet training as part of telecom degrees...
April 27, 2009
Communications Daily: ATIS began the first phase of its three-part IPTV Standards Work Plan
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The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions completed the first phase of its three-part IPTV standards work plan, and released five new standards to support an IPTV foundational framework, the group said...
March 23, 2009
Green Telecom Live: ATIS publishes energy efficiency measuring system for telecoms gear
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) says it has developed three standards for measuring the energy efficiency of telecommunication equipment...
March 19, 2009
IP Communications: ATIS Announces Three New Energy Efficiency Standards for Telecom
In an age when communications service providers and even enterprises are going “green” – attempting to figure out and reduce power consumption by network elements and data centers – it would be expected that there would suddenly spring up a profusion of power consumption/efficiency metrics and standards...
February 23, 2009
Communications Daily: ATIS began an American National Standards Institute Standard on Wood Pole Specifications and Dimensions
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ATIS began an American National Standards Institute Standard on wood pole specifications and dimensions...
February 20, 2009
IP Communications: Now Even Wood Poles Have an ANSI Standard
For many suburban and rural dwellers, the creosote-impregnated wooden utility pole has been a part of life since the invention of telegraphy in the 1830s...
February 9, 2009
Telecoms.com: Qualcomm focused on bilateral deals for LTE IPR
As new rounds of IPR negotiations over OFDM/OFDMA technologies loom, Qualcomm is out to persuade critics that its approach to IPR is vastly transparent, not to mention fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory. But will that forestall future licensing disagreements?...
