MERCER ISLAND, Wash.—Twenty telecom companies have joined to form the Service Availability Forum, a new coalition to fortify services and applications running on the currently existing global communications network.
The forum’s goal is to create and promote open standards that will allow for on-demand, uninterrupted landline and mobile network services. “As Internet and mobile communications and commerce become indispensable to end-customers and businesses, interruptions in those services are becoming less tolerable,” explained Michael O’Brien, president of the forum. “Today, such interruptions are symptoms of the inability of our infrastructure to scale quickly and perform dependably. Our industry knows the best solution to address this problem quickly and cost-effectively is through the broad adoption of open standards.”
