Advancing ICT Industry Transformation
IN THIS ISSUE
WINTER 2016
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
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In 2015, the ATIS Board of Directors set into
action an Innovation Agenda with the objective of
enhancing the Board’s value as a senior executive
industry forum, fostering member idea-sharing and
accelerating industry alignment on key priorities.
The Agenda is also intended to surface topics where
early identification of work creates opportunities for
ATIS to engage in efforts that will return value to the
members and the organization.
5G Initiative
eCON Initiative
NFV Forum
IP-NNI Task Force
TOPS COUNCIL INITIATIVES
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oneM2M Open Source Community
Neutral Host
Testbeds
Calling Party Anti-Spoofing
Wi-Fi Emergency Calling
Intelligent Programmatic Peering
STANDARDS AND SOLUTIONS
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Wireless Emergency Alerts
Location Accuracy
National Emergency Address Database
STEP Committee Update
Cloud Services Forum Sunset
Fiber Cut Outages
Numbering Portability
Ordering and Billing Advances
The Future of Access Service Ordering
oneM2M
• Advancing the IoT’s Potential
NEWS
• ATIS Board of Directors Elects AT&T’s Andre
Fuetsch as Chair
• ATIS Welcomes Michael Nawrocki as Vice
President of Technology and Solutions
• ATIS Joins Light Reading’s Women in Comms
The first effort generated by the Innovation Agenda is ATIS’ robust 5G
Initiative. The Initiative has already produced a road map for the 5G
future with publication of the white paper 5G Reimagined: A North
American Perspective, which defines a vision of 5G incorporating
both incremental and innovative aspects of the 5G network. The
report shows how 5G will evolve from the current network and also
incorporates breakthrough use cases to help define the new network’s
potential. In 2016, ATIS advances this foundational work by defining
North American industry requirements that will direct 5G’s eventual
technical capabilities. This work provides the basis for subsequent 5G
standardization.
Most recently, the Agenda also launched the Evolution to Content
Optimized Networks (eCON) Initiative, a transformative effort that will
establish an evolutionary path from today’s IP-based routing network
to a future network that leverages the increasingly important role of
content. This work involves assessing developments such as Information
Centric Networking (ICN) and related research, with the goal of more
efficient content and information delivery based on content naming
approaches.
The ATIS Update reports on only some of the innovative work taking
place in our organization. Updates are posted regularly to the newly
re-designed www.atis.org website. I hope you will visit the site regularly,
follow us on Twitter at @atisupdates, and join our LinkedIn group to
keep current on the results that ATIS is delivering for our industry.
Sincerely,
ATIS WEBINARS AND EVENTS
INDUSTRY EVENTS
President & CEO
Susan M. Miller
FEATURED INITIATIVES
5G Initiative
Identifying the new business opportunities inherent in a
new architecture
Launched in 2015, ATIS’
5G Initiative involves two
parallel efforts to accelerate
the industry’s progress to
5G. The first addresses the
evolution of 4G/LTE to 5G based on North American
market dynamics and regulatory requirements. The
second encompasses a “disruptive” perspective that
considers solutions unconstrained by existing service
requirements or architecture. The Initiative is already
achieving results for the industry in mapping the 5G
future. The evolutionary use cases are evaluating the
evolution from 4G to 5G in terms of functionality and
interfaces between a new 5G core network and the
evolving LTE network. One goal of this work is to seek
to better understand specific requirements needed for
North American deployment.
The more disruptive “breakthrough” use cases relate to
Quality of Experience (QoE). The goal is to ensure the
new network optimizes the user’s QoE end to end. This
requires thinking outside of the standards process, and
may not even involve standards at all. Instead, the work
will employ open source solutions and engage device
manufacturers. The 5G Initiative is taking an end-to-end
perspective, and eventually will include the perspective
of the leading organizations that are driving the bulk of
content today, such as Netflix.
In another major accomplishment advancing 5G, in
November, ATIS published 5G Reimagined: A North
American Perspective, a white paper advancing North
American 5G requirements with a focus on quality
of experience (QoE), and setting the stage for 5G
globally. 5G Reimagined contains use cases describing
key deployment scenarios for new networks, building
on commonly recognized baseline requirements. It
then goes beyond these to consider disruptive service
examples. These would address challenges and
opportunities for the new network in light of changing
business models and user expectations. Based on these
all-encompassing use cases, the paper identifies the
unique characteristics and regulatory requirements of
North American networks as well as the other factors
it will take to ensure 5G delivers an unsurpassed user
experience. Access 5G Reimagined.
eCON Initiative
Contributing high-level directional guidance on the
evolutionary needs of the network
On March 2, ATIS launched the Evolution to Content
Optimized Networks (eCON) Initiative, a transformative
effort that will establish an evolutionary path
from today’s IP-based routing network to a future
network that leverages the increasingly important
role of content. This work will assess developments
such as Information Centric Networking (ICN) and
related research, with the goal of more efficient
content and information delivery based on content
naming approaches. A clear vision and set of path
alternatives will benefit the entire content ecosystem
as the industry explores the best path forward for
improved network efficiency, content delivery and user
experience.
The eCON Initiative will contribute
high-level directional guidance on the
evolutionary needs of the network. It will
identify new opportunities to better understand
the practical implications to make content
optimized networks a reality. Its aim is to
deliver a transformational approach to support
the future needs of content and information
services from the application, network and user
perspective.”
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-Susan Miller
President and CEO, ATIS
While the industry is exploring various means to
optimize the current network for more efficient delivery
of content today, a collaborative vision is needed to
assess the best path forward to evolve to a future
network based on techniques like content naming. To
help with this process, the eCON will capture a “present
state” of existing work in this area; develop a desired
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“future state” that identifies the target attributes
and intrinsic value of moving to a content optimized
network; identify related industry work underway or
needed to support the transformation; and more. It
will rationalize its vision with related network evolution
work being undertaken by ATIS and the industry on 5G,
IoT and the Future of the Internet.
NFV Forum
Defining NFV business requirements
A key enabler for inter-provider network functions
virtualization (NFV) is the availability of a standardized
service function catalog. Recognizing this, ATIS’ NFV
Forum is on target for the 2016 completion of the
Standardized Service Function Catalog of Unique
Identifiers & Attributes for Inter and Intra Domain.
The Forum has already sketched out a framework
addressing how the three defined catalogs (global
service, network provider and service provider)
would interact. This work would allow consumers
and producers of NFV services to automate interadministrative domain service discovery and lifecycles.
The NFV Forum is also completing work on the
associated requirements and publishing InterAdministrative Provider NFV Technical Requirements
in the near future. The architecture defined in this
document, based on a Consumer Administrative
Domain and a Producer Administrative Domain, can
enable new business opportunities by addressing
use cases such as those defined in the NFV Forum
document published in 2015. The eight use cases
contained in that document are designed to improve
customer services by efficiently combining NFV
resources from several providers.
The architecture defined in the forthcoming
requirements allows both complete service functions
and/or NFV infrastructure capabilities to be traded
between consumer and producer. From this
architecture, requirements have been derived that
address the operational, administrative and security
aspects. This document will provide a foundation for
further standardization to enable open, discoverable
and interoperable NFV services in an interadministrative domain context.
In future work, the NFV Forum intends to create
standards that effectively promote the integration of
NFV technology into the current OSS/BSS, recognizing
their dependency on traditional standards for service
management, rapid deployment, and client billing.
IP-NNI Task Force
Achieving IP-based interconnection of service provider
networks; creating a verified token solution to mitigate
caller-ID spoofing
In July 2015, the ATIS/SIP Forum Joint Task Force
completed the first standardized IP-based network-tonetwork interconnection (NNI) with consensus across
North American Service providers. This accomplishment
enabled a major objective identified in the United
States National Broadband Plan, to ensure that all
service connections between providers occur at the
Internet Protocol (IP) level. The Task Force is currently
developing a specification for a “verified token,” in
cooperation with the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). The verified token leverages service provider
infrastructure to provide an important enabler for more
effective approaches to combat caller-ID spoofing.
The verified token work is specifically geared toward
adding value to service provider offerings. It is
contributing to similar work taking place in the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), by providing a more
deployable approach that leverages service provider
infrastructure to bring greater value to the end user.
The IETF had been pursuing solutions in this area that
would have required a complex certificate management
system to address the spoofing problem. ATIS is
working toward a solution that allows service providers
to perform the certificate management at the service
provider level, thus greatly simplifying this function. In
addition to adding service provider value, this approach
also helps users by delivering a spoofing mitigation
technique that is much easier to deploy than other
solutions being explored in the market.
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TOPS COUNCIL INITIATIVES
oneM2M Open Source Community
Advancing the oneM2M specifications essential to
enabling large‐scale implementation of the IoT
In August 2014, oneM2M, the global standards
initiative for Machine to Machine (M2M) and the
Internet of Things (IoT), delivered its first set of
specifications supporting an M2M service layer to
enable scalable global deployment of M2M/IoT
implementations and offer interoperability with existing
standards. Industry, however, has been slow to adopt
oneM2M standards.
To address this problem, the TOPS Council has
launched the oneM2M Open Source Community
(OOSC) Landscape Team. The Council recognizes
that a comprehensive Open Source implementation
would complement the oneM2M standard, drive
adoption, and enhance the commercial value of
oneM2M standards. The Team will explore open source
communities that can help oneM2M gain increased
industry adoption by reducing time-to-market and
barriers to entry especially for application developers.
It will evaluate and compare existing oneM2M Open
Source activities against a range of possible commercial
needs and build collaborative relationships and contact
points with existing projects. Based on this analysis,
it will identify areas where ATIS should take a lead to
better address industry needs, and map the best path
forward.
The OOSC Landscape Team has already drafted a table
comparing elements of existing open source projects,
such as ECLIPSE, OCEAN and Open Daylight. It will be
undertaking a licensing analysis to evaluate possible
open source licenses that could be used for open
source implementations that may be developed under
the auspices of ATIS based on oneM2M deliverables.
Neutral Host
Solutions to more effectively deliver carrier wireless in
shared public spaces settings
In settings with a high density of users and traffic
such as stadiums, malls, and large hotels, providing
ubiquitous, licensed spectrum coverage requires
deployment of small cells. This means that small cells
are required from all major companies in addition
to normal enterprise Wi-Fi—a complex and costly
arrangement. A potentially more attractive scenario is
to have one solution deployed that could be used by
all wireless providers. Thus, the shared infrastructure
becomes a neutral host for small cell coverage, and not
aligned with any specific provider.
The ATIS Neutral Host Landscape Team will catalogue
and analyze the technical options that could make
this possible in the context of the U.S. regulatory
environment. The analysis will focus on surveying
technical solutions and comparative technical trade-offs
only. No business case analysis would be conducted.
Thus far, the Landscape Team has determined that
there are a number of technical options possible in
creating a small cell neutral host solution. The work
the NFV Forum is doing on inter-administrative domain
NFV, for example, could be leveraged to allow a wireless
service provider to instantiate a virtualized small cell
(e.g., virtualized baseband unit) that could use common
radio heads distributed across the enterprise. Many
other options exist that leverage both licensed and
unlicensed spectrum.
The Neutral Host Landscape Team just started its work
in February 2016. Its objective is to provide a survey
and comparative technical analysis of neutral host small
cell solutions for enterprise and other environments.
Testbeds
Critical studies to advance the all-IP transition
As the all-IP migration evolves, there is a critical need
to bring the industry together to test and validate
emerging solutions in areas including numbering
evolution, IP-NNI routing, and authenticated caller-ID.
The ATIS Testbeds Landscape Team was formed for this
purpose. Already, it has conducted an assessment of
key testing requirements and identified nine use cases
of interest for an ATIS testbed. These cover number
provisioning, IP-NNI routing and secure caller-ID. The
team has developed detailed test scenarios for each
and is making comprehensive recommendations
for conducting testing. Results from this testing are
expected to be issued in late 2016 into 2017, depending
on lab availability. Timing for the scheduling needed
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to access operators’ laboratories as well as the
coordination of this testing is currently being assessed.
Not all of the tests being proposed will require end-toend inter-operator testing; some are standalone and
will begin later this year. This work takes place in close
collaboration with the ATIS-SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force
and other ATIS groups.
Calling Party Anti-Spoofing
Solutions to mitigate caller ID spoofing/robocalling
Consumer groups are increasingly lobbying for a
“solution” to the problem of unwanted robocalls, and
regulatory scrutiny is increasing. Many approaches
being proposed are not easily implemented, or are, in
fact, effectively impossible to implement. The Calling
Party Anti-Spoofing Landscape Team is engaged in
summarizing the work being done by ATIS to examine
possible mitigation techniques to find those that will
address this problem. A complex industry issue, it has
been noted that no single technique will fully solve the
issue – hence the need to consider layered approaches
and mitigation techniques that can reduce the severity
of the problem.
The Landscape Team’s goal is to synthesize the results
of existing ATIS work analyzing the problem and
assessing proposed mitigation techniques. The results
will demonstrate the complexity of this space, and
highlight the need for multiple mitigation techniques
to develop a workable approach. They will also
demonstrate that the industry is actively working to
address this complex problem. Findings will provide
a collaborative industry perspective, which will be
documented in a white paper targeted to Congress, the
FCC, and other regulatory and legislative audiences.
This product is set for delivery in April of 2016.
group, which is experiencing robust and constructive
engagement from ATIS members, is surveying the
standards landscape to identify precisely where support
is required for Wi-Fi emergency calling (e.g., voice chat
on video games does not need to support emergency
calling). This will be completed through an assessment
of Wi-Fi calling use cases. Then, it will produce a
technology survey of the standards landscape for Wi-Fi
Emergency Calling support, to encompass 3GPP and
IETF work. It will also identify technical standards that
may need to be advanced and recommend, where it is
useful, to define standards and/or best practices. The
Landscape Team will identify work items targeted to
various ATIS committees and/or contributions needed
into 3GPP. A report on all findings is scheduled for
delivery in June of 2016.
Intelligent Programmatic Peering
Mitigating DDoS attacks
The Intelligent Programmatic Peering Landscape Team
(IPLT) was convened to investigate industry solutions
and mechanisms to leverage SP-to-SP communications
to better mitigate DDoS attacks. The IPLT has specifically
addressed the fact that existing DDoS mitigation
techniques do not use real-time information exchange
between SPs. It has assessed available mechanisms
for addressing the problem including RTBH Filtering
(Remotely Triggered Black Hole), Policy Based Routing,
and BGP FlowSpec. The Team has reviewed these
mechanisms with an eye toward understanding the
need for best practices and who should define these
in the industry. It is currently posing critical questions
to service providers, and developing a template for a
“DDoS Mitigation Peering Agreement.” Its conclusions
will be validated with service providers. A final report is
slated to be published in March 2016.
Wi-Fi Emergency Calling
Another contribution advancing ATIS leadership in
emergency calling solutions
As wireless carriers are now supporting voice over Wi-Fi
to offload cellular networks and/or increase coverage
area, emergency calling on Wi-Fi networks must be
supported. Currently, while solutions may exist, there
is a lack of standards and/or widely agreed-upon best
practices for Wi-Fi emergency calling. That’s where the
Wi-Fi Emergency Calling Landscape Team comes in. The
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STANDARDS AND SOLUTIONS
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Wireless Emergency Alerts
Evaluating WEAs on multiple fronts
In December 2015, ATIS published a series of new
studies to identify the feasibility and standardization/
implementation considerations for multiple possible
Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) enhancements.
These addressed recommendations from the
FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and
Interoperability Council (CSRIC) and investigated three
topics: (1) enhancing cell broadcast geo-targeting for
WEA alerts; (2) providing supplemental information for
a WEA alert; and (3) increasing the WEA alert message
length.
• The first study explored methods for the delivery
of geo-targeted WEA alert messages to a given
geocode, circle, or polygon. It concluded that the
current wireless infrastructure-based geo-targeting
continues to be the recommended solution for WEA
geo-targeting.
• Also examined were the practicality, limitations,
and impacts of providing supplemental information
for a WEA to a mobile device and enabling a
mobile device to display this information. The
study explored supplemental information including
multimedia content such as maps and photos of
a suspect, missing child, or abductor for Amber
Alerts. It noted, however, that multimedia content
cannot be supported in today’s cell broadcast-based
WEA system.
• Finally, ATIS studied WEA message length and
confirmed that an increase in the maximum
displayable characters is technically feasible for an
LTE WEA message.
Access the Feasibility Study for LTE WEA Message
Length (ATIS-0700023), Feasibility Study for WEA
Supplemental Text (ATIS-0700026), and Feasibility Study
for WEA Cell Broadcast Geo-Targeting (ATIS-0700027) in
the ATIS White Paper Center.
Location Accuracy
Helping first responders locate those in need
ATIS contributions are also helping first responders
better locate those in need using wireless technology.
This work takes place in the Wireless Technologies and
Systems Committee’s (WTSC’s) and Emergency Services
Interconnection Forum’s (ESIF’s) Emergency Location
Task Force (ELOC), and is in close coordination with the
Association of Public Safety Communications Officials
(APCO), the National Emergency Number Association
(NENA), AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. It
is conducted under a voluntary agreement, developed
by the six aforementioned organizations, that includes
a roadmap for technology changes that was submitted
in response to an FCC initiative to provide a number
of improvements to emergency location capabilities.
These specifically include providing a dispatchable
location for emergency calls to public safety answering
points (PSAPs): (http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/
view?id=60000988441).
In addition to the roadmap submitted, the FCC created
new requirements to address Location Accuracy. These
rules are discussed in the FCC 4th Report & Order [Ref
36] and codified within the published Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) [Ref 37].
ATIS has a lead industry role in standards development
needed to support the goals set forth in the roadmap.
It will deliver its most recent accomplishment in March.
This occurs with the publication of a new standard
focusing on supporting the commitments the roadmap
defines as well as the rules as outlined within the
FCC CFR. The ATIS Standard on Location Accuracy
Improvements for Emergency Calls (ATIS-0700028) will
contain the requirements for building the National
Emergency Address Database (NEAD). The NEAD is a
national database consisting of access point (e.g., Wi-Fi
hotspots) and beacon (e.g., Bluetooth Low Energy)
location information. It will enable wireless service
providers to deliver a dispatchable location to help 9-11 call centers respond to emergencies. ATIS was chosen
as the project manager to support the development
and deployment of the NEAD.
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National Emergency Address Database
Project management to deliver emergency responders a
more accurate dispatchable location
In 2015, ATIS was selected as the project manager for
the RFP process to oversee platform implementation
for the 9-1-1 National Emergency Address Database
(NEAD). The goal was to ensure the selected vendor
produces a platform in accordance with FCC rules,
including privacy and security requirements.
CTIA-The Wireless Association® established the NEAD
LLC to implement a national database of access point
(e.g., Wi-Fi hotspots) and beacon (e.g., Bluetooth Low
Energy) location information that will enable wireless
service providers to deliver a dispatchable location that
will help 9-1-1 call centers respond to emergencies.
The RFP process is underway and anticipated to be
completed in 1Q2016. Once the vendor is selected,
ATIS looks forward to continuing to work with CTIA’s
NEAD LLC to leverage its ongoing location technology
standards achievements to ensure NEAD’s efficient,
accurate, and timely launch.
OTHER INITIATIVES
STEP Committee Update
Solutions for the industry’s power and sustainability
challenges.
The Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection
(STEP) Committee is on the fast track when it comes
to delivering its many industry contributions. At its
recent January meeting, among its many priorities,
STEP approved two Network Electrical Protection
Subcommittee documents for priority publication:
• Requirements for Maximum Voltage, Current,
and Power Levels in Network‐Powered Transport
Systems, which provides a summary of the
maximum DC steady-state and duration limited
voltage, current, and power limits to be maintained
when telecommunications systems provide or
receive power over conventional network telecom
twisted-pair conductors/cabling.
• Electrical Protection for Ethernet Systems, which
assists the service provider in choosing appropriate
protection methods for Ethernet communications
circuits.
Also at the January meeting:
• The STEP Network Power Systems Subcommittee
sent another document to letter ballot: LinePowering of Telecommunications Equipment on
OSP Twisted Copper Pair Loops. This document
attempts to bring the various standards that define
telecommunications line-powering voltage limits,
power limits, and safety-related precautions into
one document.
• The Network Physical Protection Subcommittee
opened a new Issue to revise the Acoustic
Measurement document to align with industry
standards on acoustic noise limits and declared
value methods.
• The Telecommunications Energy Efficiency (TEE)
Subcommittee opened a new Issue to address
“Optional Method for Testing Routers or Switches
with Very High Speed Ports - 40 Gb/s and Higher.”
• The TEE Wireless Working Group is addressing
the following standard: Energy Efficiency for
Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology
for Measurement and Reporting of Base Station
Metrics. This document defines the methodology to
be used by vendors and third-party test laboratories
in determining base station input power and energy
efficiency.
Cloud Services Forum Sunset
Industry cloud priorities continue to advance at ATIS
After many years of advancing cloud services based
on service provider requirements, ATIS’ Cloud Services
Forum (CSF) sunset on Dec. 30, 2015. The CSF
addressed industry priorities central to operationalizing
service provider cloud services offerings, with a focus
on developing cloud services frameworks and enabling
inter-provider interoperability for services such as
telepresence. Although officially sunset as a committee,
CSF’s work will continue at ATIS. Many of the CSF’s
remaining priorities will transition to ATIS’ Network
Functions Virtualization Forum. The ATIS/SIP Forum
IP-NNI Task Force will consider a CSF work item related
to vendor alignment and interoperability (plug-andplay) for video services. ATIS may also be consulted to
provide additional input to complete a report on cloud
interconnection.
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Fiber Cut Outages
Research and recommendations to improve network
reliability
In 2014, the Network Reliability Steering Committee
(NRSC) conducted an exhaustive analysis to address
the increase in fiber-cut-related outages as reported
in the FCC Network Outage Reporting System (NORS).
While an industry-wide spike in fiber cut outages
was noted, NRSC found that NRSC members did not
contribute significantly to this increase. Nevertheless,
the Committee developed recommendations to help
the industry minimize future outages. These included
revisiting CSRIC Best Practices related to buried
facilities, emphasizing the importance of “Call Before
You Dig” programs, and reviewing the following NRSC
publications: ATIS-0100052, NRSC Bulletin No. 2013002: DS3 Simplex Conditions; ATIS-0100045, NRSC
Bulletin No. 2009-2: DS3 Outages; and ATIS-0100050,
NRSC Bulletin No. 2006-1: DS3 Simplex.
Numbering Portability
Solutions today for the future’s numbering challenges
ATIS’ Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
(PTSC) has undertaken the work of a Nationwide
Number Portability Study. Started in December 2015,
this work has a target resolution date set for 2Q 2016. It
comes in response to a communication sent to the FCC
by the Competitive Carriers Association and CTIA - The
Wireless Association on concerns over the availability of
number portability to wireless consumers nationwide.
To address this concern, the FCC sent a referral to the
North American Numbering Council (NANC) calling for
action regarding the availability of number portability
to wireless consumers nationwide.
In response, ATIS will develop a deliverable that
outlines the changes to existing standards/solutions
and implications for applying nationwide number
portability in existing networks. This work touches on
other work on advancing our numbering system that
is taking place in ATIS’ Industry Numbering Committee
(INC) and its Systems SMS/800 Number Administration
Committee (SNAC).
Ordering and Billing Advances
Working toward an international Ethernet ordering
process
In 2015, the Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF) and MEF
completed joint work to update the Access Service
Request (ASR) ordering process to fully support MEFdefined Carrier Ethernet services. The ASR updates will
speed service deployment by giving service providers a
standards-based guide to automate and operationalize
their MEF service offerings. Following this success
in streamlining Ethernet ordering, the OBF Ordering
Solutions (OS) Subcommittee is now working with MEF
to examine the potential of creating a joint Ethernet
ordering process that can be used globally.
OBF OS is currently participating in MEF’s Standardized
Ethernet Service Order Specifications Project, which is
part MEF’s Service Operations Committee (SOC). The
group will be participating in the Euro16 LSO Hackathon
in Rome, April 27-29, 2016, with some members
connecting virtually, to start the work of defining the
fields needed in a global Ethernet ordering process.
At the event, technical experts—both the leading
experts as well as novices—will approach the problem.
The goal is to gather insights to streamline Ethernet
ordering globally and learn how to make this work part
of an International Reference Architecture for Ethernet.
The Future of Access Service Ordering
In March, the OBF will release Version 53 of the Access
Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG), which will update
the current ASOG in preparation for the January 1,
2017 sunset of the mechanized specification. ASOG
53 will be the last release supporting the mechanized
specification documentation. Moving forward, ASRs
will be transmitted via the Unified Ordering Model
(UOM).
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oneM2M
Advancing the IoT’s Potential
ATIS launches and promotes adoption of the first-ever
application registry based on industry standard
With machine-to-machine
(M2M) communications and the
Internet of Things (IoT) quickly
evolving, a critical foundation
must exist to enable applications
developed on different networks
and platforms to easily and seamlessly exchange
information. In December 2015, the industry moved
one step closer to that reality with the launch of the
first-of-its-kind oneM2M Application-ID (App-ID)
Registry. The Registry was developed by iconectiv under
the auspices of ATIS. ATIS is the initial and exclusive
App-ID Registry Management Authority for oneM2M,
a global standards initiative for Machine to Machine
(M2M) communications and the Internet of Things
(IoT). It will help accelerate the adoption of open M2M
systems.
The globally available oneM2M App-ID Registry
provides a unique ID to each application to facilitate
communication between applications and devices.
Developers can quickly and easily register their
application online, which not only secures their place in
the M2M marketplace but also gives their applications
additional exposure as the IoT ecosystem continues to
expand.
NEWS
ATIS Board of Directors Elects AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch as
Chair
Other new board positions also named
In November 2015, Andre Fuetsch, Senior Vice
President, Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design, AT&T,
was elected to chair the ATIS Board of Directors.
Fuetsch had served as First Vice Chairman of the ATIS
Board since March 2015. At AT&T, he is responsible
for delivering the architecture and design of AT&T’s
future networking evolution. Leading a team of over
2,000 engineers and computer scientists, he oversees
programs encompassing both the business and mass
market customer segments. Fuetsch also leads AT&T’s
Labs Research and Foundry organizations, and holds six
patents in the field of network traffic optimization and
relational database design.
Also, at ATIS’ November 12 Board meeting, Joseph
Hanley, Senior Vice President of Technology, Services
& Strategy at TDS, assumed the role of First Vice Chair,
replacing Fuetsch. Hanley has previously served as
the Second Vice Chair of the ATIS Board and, before
that, ATIS Treasurer. Sue Spradley, EVP and General
Manager, Viavi, was elected Secretary.
ATIS Welcomes Michael Nawrocki as Vice President of
Technology and Solutions
Mike Nawrocki joined ATIS in February in a new position
at the organization: Vice President of Technology and
Solutions. In this role, Nawrocki will focus on strategic
initiatives to embrace the direction of the industry.
He will specifically leverage his service provider
perspective and extensive industry experience to
provide ATIS direction on emerging technology trends
as well as next generation technologies and networks.
As an information and communications technology
(ICT) industry veteran, Nawrocki’s hire deepens ATIS’
technical bench. Throughout his career, he has made
contributions to many ATIS priority initiatives. As Vice
President of Technology and Solutions, he will also be
key in ATIS’ policy interface with the FCC and other
agencies.
ATIS Joins Light Reading’s Women in Comms
In January, ATIS joined Women in Comms, a
membership organization launched by Light Reading
with founding partner Intel, which has the support
of service providers, vendors and organizations from
across the global information and communications
technology (ICT) industry. The initiative provides
information, networking, mentorship, access
to jobs and support for women in the next-gen
communications industry. A not-for-profit, independent
initiative, Women in Comms will specifically tackle
head-on the well-documented gender imbalance in the
communications industry, working to connect women,
build up the pipeline of qualified female candidates,
provide mentorships for women in the workplace and
scholarships for college-level women.
ATIS UPDATE
-9Winter 2016
ATIS WEBINARS
ATIS EVENTS
Access the insights of these recent ATIS webinars. Now
online for on-demand and listening and viewing:
5G Reimagined
As 5G use cases and requirements are addressed
globally, consensus is emerging around 5G’s
performance requirements and what it will take for
the new networks to deliver an unsurpassed user
experience. Providing a North American perspective,
ATIS is not only advancing global 5G requirements,
but it is taking them a step beyond their traditional
scope. The 5G Reimagined: New Business Models and
Enhanced User Experiences webinar is now available for
on-demand viewing. You can also download a copy of
the presentation slides.
Accelerating the Internet of Things
With machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and
the Internet of Things (IoT) quickly evolving, it is critical
that a foundation be built that enables applications
developed on different networks and platforms to easily
and seamlessly exchange information. The emerging
oneM2M standard, which is developed under the
direction of a consortium of eight global standards
bodies, enables that exchange effectively accelerating
the adoption of open M2M systems. This webinar will
explore how the potential of the oneM2M standard
can be realized via the recently launched oneM2M
App-ID registry and what developers need to do now
to secure their spot in the global M2M marketplace.
The Accelerating the Internet of Things: The oneM2M
App-ID Registry webinar is now available for ondemand viewing. You can also download a copy of the
presentation slides.
ATIS Protection Engineers Group (PEG) 2016
April 5-7 | Monroe, LA | CenturyLink Headquarters
The ATIS Protection Engineers Group (PEG) 2016
Conference: Improving Network Infrastructure
Reliability and Sustainability, promotes discussion on
how basic electrical protection principles are applied to
today’s network, and the challenges of providing media
services in more decentralized networks. Learn more
and register at www.atis.org/peg.
13th Annual Meeting of the Committees
May 16-20 | Baltimore, MD
ATIS’ 13th Annual Meeting of the Committees takes
place May 16-20 in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Hyatt
Regency Baltimore. Be sure to attend to conduct your
committee work and participate in the networking
opportunities with some of the forward-looking
problem solvers and visionaries in ICT today—ATIS
members! Learn more and register at www.atis.org/
amoc.
ATIS UPDATE
- 10 Winter 2016
Timing in the Connected World-The 2016 Workshop
on Synchronization and Timing Systems
June 13-16 | San Jose, CA | Sponsored by NIST & ATIS
Explosive growth in new time-driven applications is
causing timing technologies to expand in their reach,
potential and impact. This makes synchronization and
timing the essential enablers of today’s connected
economy. The Internet of Things and sectors as
varied as finance, power, emergency services, and
transportation critically depend on timing solutions.
That’s why the WSTS brings together a broader range of
experts than ever before in its 25-year history. Register
today at www.atis.org/wsts.
Internet of Things World
May 10-12 | Santa Clara, CA
www.iotworldevent.com
ATIS is an Event Partner
5G World
June 28-30 | Kensington Olympia, London
www.5gworldevent.com
ATIS is a Supporting Organization
Call for Papers Open: Submit by April 1, 2016.
INDUSTRY EVENTS
Women in Comms Networking Breakfast
March 10 | Denver, CO
www.ubm.io/1QFnTtY
ATIS is a Supporting Partner
World Smart City Forum
July 13 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
www.worldsmartcity.org
ATIS is a Supporting Organization
Internet of Things North America
April 13-14 | Chicago, IL
www.remotemagazine.com/internetofthings
ATIS is a Supporting Organization
ATIS UPDATE
- 11 Winter 2016