For Immediate Release
ATIS 1200 G Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005	Contact: Trish Gessner Phone: 202-434-8851 E-mail: tgessner@atis.org www.atis.org

February 23, 2005, Washington – ATIS announces that it will co-host its annual Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems (WSTS 05) with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Time and Frequency Division. The workshop will take place May 10-12, 2005, at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colo.

The three-day interactive workshop will include educational and networking opportunities for telecommunications synchronization professionals at every level of their career. Network operators, strategists, design engineers, system architects and synchronization planners from the wireline, wireless, enterprise and utilities sectors will participate in interactive workshop sessions and panel discussions.

Featured workshop topics will cover a wide range of topics from the fundamentals to synchronicity in next-generation packet-based networks for wireline and wireless systems.

The workshop has been taking place annually since 1992. ATIS and NIST have been collaborating as co-sponsors for seven years.

For additional workshop, registration and hotel information, please visit: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/seminars/ATIS.2005.html.

About ATIS

ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 350 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees, and its Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

About NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration, was founded in 1901 as the nation's first federal physical science research laboratory. Over the years, the scientists and technical staff at NIST have made solid contributions to a broad and varied range of technologies, including such things as image processing, DNA diagnostic "chips," smoke detectors, and automated error-correcting software for machine tools. Other areas in which NIST has had major impact include atomic clocks, X-ray standards for mammography, scanning tunneling microscopy, pollution-control technology, and high-speed dental drills. For more information visit www.nist.gov.

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