Cloud Services Forum (CSF)

The Cloud Services Forum (CSF) promotes the integration of cloud technologies and network infrastructure to realize the significant benefits of cloud, by:

• Developing standards to enable the network to do more than it does today (e.g., expanding product offerings including services on demand, accelerating time-to-market, lowering costs, minimizing complexity, increasing scalability);
• Focusing on the creation of reusable Service Enablers to progress each phase of work; and
• Creating technical solutions in support of a global marketplace to help Service Providers realize cloud’s full potential.

CSF’s Completed Initiatives:

• Develop video service specifications as a component of a unified communications framework (e.g., telepresence, mobile).
• Progress the next phase of Content Distribution Network- Interconnection (CDN-I) focusing on multicast-based content delivery to mobile end-user devices.
• Advanced a Trusted Information Exchange solution to address the directory, routing, privacy and accessibility implications associated with personal contact information resident in mobile devices.
• Developed the next phase of Content Distribution Network- Interconnection (CDN-I) with Release 3 – building on initial use cases to address more complicated models and additional content types.
• Defined virtual desktop functional requirements to take advantage of cloud resources to reduce management costs and support any-device, any-network access to desktops by end-users.

For more information, please contact Yvonne Reigle (yreigle@atis.org) or Nicole Butler (nbutler@atis.org)

Leadership and Contacts Leadership Vacant CSF Chair Dan Druta, AT&T CSF Vice Chair Staff Contact If you have any questions on the CSF please contact Yvonne Reigle, ATIS Director or Nicole Butler, ATIS Committee Administrator.   Upcoming Meetings Upcoming Meeting Information posted in ATIS Workspace Webinar In case you missed the Webinar on Service Enablers - The Key to Faster, more Flexible Service Technologies, you can access the presentation slides here.