WASHINGTON-ATIS today released a comprehensive plan to craft new industry standards for converging multimedia architectures across wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
ATIS said the Mobile Wireless Services Priority Work Plan is the result of more than a year of technical assessment and analysis of mobile wireless services by the standards body’s technology and operations council’s mobile focus group. The group was led by senior executives from leading telecom carriers and manufacturing companies.
“ATIS believes a convergence of wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks is necessary if carriers are going to be able to deliver a seamless stream of communications to consumers anytime, anywhere,” said Susan M. Miller, president and chief executive of ATIS. “Total convergence is achievable, and it will be an integral component in the development of next-generation networks.”
ATIS said implementation of the MWS Work Plan will help streamline carriers’ abilities to deliver anytime, anywhere communications services by providing standards for network interoperability as well as various service and network attributes.
The MWS Work Plan, according to ATIS, focuses its primary recommendations on the convergence of the major service categories of voice and presence/messaging services. Within the work plan, voice services are examined in the following areas: voice protocol-architecture, security, performance, voice interoperability, SIP-T interoperability, network configuration, management and control, mobility management and user performance.
ATIS said the sections on presence and messaging service focus on cross-network interoperability, protocol architecture, network configuration, management and control, security, performance, inter-provider usage metering, and messaging cross-network interoperability. Also included are recommendations addressing federal requirements, ordering, billing and provisioning.
