| 3G.IP |
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Operators-led, actively promotes a common IP based wireless system for 3G
mobile systems and alignment with fixed networks.
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| 3GPP
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3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
The purpose of 3GPP is to prepare, approve and maintain globally
applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for:
- a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on the evolved GSM core networks,
and the radio access technologies supported by the Partners (i.e., UTRA
both FDD and TDD modes), to be transposed by the Organizational Partners
into appropriate deliverables (e.g., standards).
- the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) including GSM evolved
radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).
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| ATM Forum
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| Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCD Forum)
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| DSL Forum |
| The DSL Forum, a consortium of 340
leading industry telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and
service provider companies, was established in 1994 and continues its
drive for a mass market for DSL to deliver the benefits of this technology
to end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire
infrastructures.
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International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC)
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| Since its formation in September
1994, the IMTC, a non-profit global consortium comprising approximately
100 companies throughout the world, has maintained a focus on the creation
and adoption of open, international standards for multimedia
communications, while actively championing the need for the
interoperability of these products and services.
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IPV6 Forum
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The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of over 150 leading Internet
service vendors, National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and
international ISPs, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by improving market
and user awareness, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet
and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The
key focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the
deployment of IPv6. IPv6 Summits are organized by the IPv6 Forum and staged
in various locations around the world to provide industry and market with
the best available information on this rapidly advancing technology.
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MINC |
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MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance
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Founded in April 2003 by merging the MPLS Forum and the Frame Relay Forum,
the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance is an industry-wide organization of
networking and telecommunication companies focused on driving the deployment
of multi-vendor Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Frame Relay (FR)
networks and associated applications. The Alliance provides a meeting ground
for companies that are creating MPLS and FR products and deploying MPLS and
FR networks and services.
Through the efforts of our three working committees, the Alliance
encourages: (a) input to the development of standards throughout the various
industry standards groups; (b) the creation of Implementation Agreements,
based upon appropriate standards, on how to build and deliver MPLS and FR
networks and services; (c) the definition of Interoperability test suites
and coordination of Interoperability events to demonstrate the readiness of
MPLS for network deployments; (d) the creation and delivery of educational
programs to educate the industry about MPLS and FR technologies, services
and solutions; and (e) building the awareness of MPLS as a technology ready
for wide-scale deployment within service provider networks to deliver
profitable services to the end-user community.
The Alliance has A4 and A5 liaison status with the ITU-T.
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Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF)
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The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) is a global association of service
providers and system suppliers committed to developing and promoting
open-architecture, multiservice switching systems. Founded in 1998, the
MSF is an open-membership organization comprised of the world’s leading
telecommunications companies. The MSF’s activities include developing
implementation agreements, promoting worldwide compatibility and
interoperability, and encouraging input to appropriate national and
international standards bodies.
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Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) |
| The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
(MWIF) is an international non-profit industry association. Its mission is
to drive acceptance and adoption of a single open mobile wireless and
internet architecture that is independent of the access technology.
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Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG) |
| Sets vendor-neutral software
standards enabling distributed, enterprise-wide interoperability in over a
dozen vertical markets, including telecommunications.
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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) |
| Non-profit international
organization whose purpose is to accelerate the deployment of
interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical internetworks and their
associated technologies.
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Russian Association for Networks and Services (RANS)
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| Prepares coordinated proposals in
conjunction with business and state authorities on improvement of
info-communications in Russia.
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| TeleManagement
Forum (TM Forum) |
| The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum)
is a non-profit global organization that provides leadership, strategic
guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation
of communications services.
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| UMTS |
| The UMTS Forum is the only mobile
industry body that is uniquely committed to the successful introduction
and development of UMTS/IMT-2000 mobile communications systems.
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