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"Signaling for VoIP" Summit to Feature Service Provider Vision Leading to Deployment of Quality VoIP
July 31, 2002, Washington, D.C. - Dennis Francis, Vice President of
Technology Development for Nextel Communications and Eberhard Wunderlich, Director
of Connectivity and Network Services for AT&T Corporation, will be among
the participants at the "Signaling for Voice over Internet Protocol (SVoIP)"
Summit to be held August 13-14, 2002. ATIS and its sponsored Standards Committee
T1 are organizing the Summit.
Francis and Wunderlich will join William L. Smith, BellSouth CTO, for a panel
discussion entitled, "Service Provider Vision," on Day One of the
Summit. The panel will illuminate the expectations and requirements of wireline
and wireless carriers for the deployment of IP-based voice services.
Upon completion of the "Service Provider Vision" session, technical
sessions will convene to feature work underway in twelve SDOs and Forums, including
the ITU-T, IETF, Committee T1, and TIA. The output from the Summit will be publication
of a Committee T1 Technical Report containing a "gap analysis" of
SVoIP standardization.
The two-day "Signaling for VoIP" Summit will convene key domestic
and international Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and Forums interested
in coordinating communications standards and other requirements relating to
VoIP. The Summit agenda and registration are available at www.atis.org. The
Summit will be held at Intelsat offices in Washington, D.C.
In addition to Committee T1, participating organizations to date include the
ATM Forum; the Internet Engineering Task Force; ETSI TIPHON™; the International
Telecommunications Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector Study Groups
11, 12, 13 and 16; the International Softswitch Consortium; the Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) Forum; the Multiservice Switching Forum; the Third Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP); the Telecommunications Industry Association Engineering
Committees TR 30, 34, 41, and 45; the IPDR Organization, and the ENUM Forum.
About Standards Committee T1
Standards Committee T1 develops American National Standards, technical reports
and technical requirements for telecommunications services, network interconnection,
interoperability, and performance. Committee T1 provides technical input to
the United States Department of State supporting U.S. participation in international
standards bodies. More than 1,200 telecommunications engineers and technologists
bring their expertise to Committee T1's six technical subcommittees. Committee
T1 is a founding member of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) group of
regional standards development organizations and works closely with the FCC
on network reliability issues. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
accredits committee T1. More information is available by visiting the Committee
T1 Web site at www.t1.org. Committee T1 documents
are available at the ATIS Document Center, located at www.atis.org.
About ATIS
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) is a member company
organization that is the leader for standards and operating procedures for the
telecommunications industry. More than 400 telecommunications companies participate
in ATIS' 20 committees, forums, and Incubator Solutions programs, where work
focus includes wireline and wireless network interconnection standards, number
portability, improved data transmission, Internet telephony, toll-free access,
telecom fraud, and order and billing issues, among others. ATIS is accredited
by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Visit the ATIS web site
at www.atis.org.
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