HERNDON, Va.-The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions sent representatives from its member companies to meet with the European Telecommunication Standards Institute TISPAN Committee last week in Herndon, Va., to discuss standardization activities and future plans for next-generation networks.
The meeting participants agreed to pursue four common areas of interest: NGN interconnect; emergency communications including emergency identification and routing; user identification, number portability, ENUM and directory services; and security requirements and access agnostic solutions.
“Real business requirements are a key component of the overall picture and must serve as the driver for any NGN global standards effort,” said Bill O’Shea, president of Bell Laboratories and chief technology officer at Lucent Technologies Inc. “As an industry, we need to support the ability of service providers to ensure interoperability across multiple regions of the world. ATIS and TISPAN will work together to coordinate standards work and has identified four specific areas for follow-up.”
