Document No:
GSC16-PLEN-87
Source:
ATIS
Contact:
Susan Miller, [email protected]
GSC Session:
PLENARY
Agenda Item:
4.2
Alliance for Telecommunications
Industry Solutions (ATIS)
Update
Susan Miller,
President & CEO, ATIS
Halifax, 31 Oct – 3 Nov 2011
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Highlight of ATIS Activities
• ATIS’ objective is to develop technical and operational
solutions – standards, business use cases, best
practices, requirements, road maps, definitions,
interoperability tests, market analyses, technology/policy
positions, etc.
• ATIS places an emphasis on its members’ market-driven
priorities – at the intersection of business and
technology.
– Led by a senior executive Board of Directors, its
Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council, and its CIO
Council.
– Business opportunities to be realized and business
challenges to be solved sets the priority agenda.
Halifax, 31 Oct – 3 Nov 2011
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Evolving Our Approach – Moving to delivering output in
concert with business needs for priority work.
– Tight time frames with parallel interoperability needs
addressed – fast tracking more the norm;
– Smaller development groups with greater range of
expertise;
– Engagement of business organizations with more
emphasis on business value; and
– “Launch and adjust” – evolutionary approach.
• Landscape Teams -- to Focus Groups -- to Output
Development
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Cloud Services -- Forum Launches
• Network Optimization -- Focus Group Report completed.
• Consolidation and Convergence -- Task Force Report
completed.
• IP Downloadable Security -- “Incubator” wrapping up
with downloadable security solution specification
completion.
• Launching Work on:
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Over The Top Services
eHealth
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Transition
Cyber Security
Unifying Client Architecture
Halifax, 31 Oct – 3 Nov 2011
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Cloud Services Forum (CSF) Launches in February 2011
– Definition of cloud services, functional usage scenarios, and
service enablers.
– Interconnected cloud services and how service providers
can leverage their core network and service attributes.
• First Priority Use Cases:
– Content Delivery Network-Interconnection
– Telepresence – interworking of at least 2 systems in multiple
carrier domains and across 2 different supplier TP systems plus 3
other use cases to define the ultimate service architecture.
– Virtual Desktop
– Virtual Private Network
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Completed Network Optimization Focus Group Report
– Recommendations to help networks become more efficient
at handling traffic growth while maintaining a high quality
of experience for end-users:
• How and when traffic is routed, policed shaped, and
prioritized
– Examined a wide range of network optimization use cases,
identifying the required service capabilities, various
implementation options, and regulatory considerations.
• Included such optimization functions as caching, TCP
optimization, signaling proxies, video rate
adaption/compression, buffer management techniques,
etc.
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Consolidation and Convergence Task Force Report
– Outgrowth of ATIS’ effort on facilities consolidation
– Considers consolidation in the environment of moving
towards next generation networks – assessing the
business drivers and technologies for consolidation.
Included:
• The implications of the “Next Gen CO”;
• Multi-vendor support once COs are consolidated;
• Managing a consolidated network; and
• Regulatory impacts.
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• IP Downloadable Security Incubator
– Mission: development of an internal, network-delivered
downloadable security solution (DSS) for IPTV, including
technical specifications related to DSS.
– Effort extended to the “three screen experience”, mobile
device applications, HTML.5 content, and MPEG-4
delivery.
– Specification to be submitted to ATIS’ IPTV Interoperability
Forum (IIF) to standardize.
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Over the Top (OTT) Services
– Focus and support service provider interoperability and
integration.
– Assess how to integrate OTT as a wholesale offering.
– Develop an interworking architecture for OTT services.
– Target services will include VoIP Interop, Video, Chat, and
Gaming
• eHealth
– Determine how the industry will address eHealth issues
from a service provider perspective.
– Assess the privacy/security concerns and develop relevant
security classes for data.
– Develop industry best practices/guidelines for deploying
eHealth services.
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• PSTN Transition
– Understand what the new network should do and what it
will consist of, including what components from the old
network will be on the new network.
– Understand the regulatory implications of rolling out the
new network -- specifically for VoIP and OTT providers.
– Identify security issues.
• Cyber Security
– Create a Cyber Security architecture to define the role of
security as a foundational enabler that will provide a
platform for service delivery from the mobile device/CPE,
virtualized network edge, and/or the Data Center/Cloud.
– Understand White House requirements on Cyber
Security and identify next steps for ATIS members.
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Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities
• Unifying Client Architecture
– Identify common features exposed by devices and
operating systems to application clients.
– Determine information to be included in APIs for these
features.
– Develop a framework architecture to provide a hardwareagnostic view of device functionality.
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Observations and Direction
• The pace of innovation, the need for business relevance,
the speed of the output’s delivery is more important than
it has ever been to ATIS members.
• The integration of network and IT are happening and will
enable companies to provide services with an
interoperable, media-rich, service-oriented network.
• The standards landscape is shifting: greater value
received from “standards for business sake.”
• Re-invention of how we develop standards will be
essential.
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Observations and Direction
• Reshape and rethink the “new networks” – many new
forces in play.
– Traditional telephone – now moving towards all IP -offering media and entertainment.
– IPTV, 3D TV, “TV Everywhere” and Holography.
– IMS, Web 3.0 and IPv6.
– Broadband Everywhere.
– Mobility is here – new devices, services, and capabilities.
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