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

ATIS to Host ITU-T for Joint Workshop on NGN Standards

Both ATIS and the ITU-T – as well as other standards organizations around the world – are developing NGN standards to increase quality and service features for users, independent of the underlying transport technology.

The workshop’s objectives will be to identify standards work needed to support ongoing viable businesses for all parties as NGN becomes reality and to enhance ITU-T and ATIS cooperation to further coordinate NGN standardization. A particular emphasis of the workshop will be NGN requirements and standards objectives from a North American perspective and the relationship of these with the global standardization work of the ITU-T.

The workshop will feature working sessions covering: Implementable NGN Architecture and Capabilities; NGN Service Enablers, including IPTV; Signaling and Control, including IMS and SIP; and Interconnection, Interworking, and Evolution.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.atis.org/ngnworkshop.shtml.

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’ 23 industry committees and Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

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Media interested in covering the workshop should contact Trish St. Michel at tstmichel@atis.org or 202-434-8851