ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum Experts to Speak at GLOBECOM 2007

November 26, 2007, Washington, DC- ATIS announced today that members of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) will speak at the IEEE Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2007) Conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 27. The ATIS IIF, recognized as the global leader in IPTV standards development, brings the industry’s leading carriers, manufacturers and software providers together to address technical issues and create the industry’s end-to-end standards solution for IPTV.

ATIS IIF panelists featured at the GLOBECOM IPTV Network Requirements and Interoperability Session will explore architecture, Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for IPTV. Attendees of the session will learn about the technical and network considerations for IPTV services and deployment in the consumer, network provider, content provider and service provider domains.

Key leadership from the ATIS IIF will share their knowledge and will answer questions related to IPTV following their presentations. The session will be moderated by Dan O’Callaghan, IIF Chairman and Principal Member of Technical Staff, Verizon. Featured panelists include the following IIF members: Randy Sharpe, co-chair of the IIF Architecture Task Force and Senior Principal Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent; Kenneth Toney, co-chair of the IIF QoSM Task Force and International IPTV Standards, Tektronix LLC; Jeff Carr, IIF DRM Task Force co-chair andSenior Technical Staff Network & Systems Architecture Division, Sony Electronics, Inc.; and Kinney Bacon, IIF Metadata Task Force co-chair and Principal Engineer System Architecture, Subscriber Products, Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company.

The IPTV Network Requirements and Interoperability Session is part of the GLOBECOM 2007 technical program, which consists of general and technical symposia, tutorials, and workshops. For more on this event, visit http://www.ieee-globecom.org/index.html.

About the ATIS IPTV IIF

The ATIS IIF is recognized as the global leader in the development of requirements, standards and specifications supporting the interoperability of an end-to-end deployment of IPTV services. The group is a lead source of IPTV-related technical contributions to standards bodies worldwide including the ITU-T. More than 50 ATIS member companies are actively engaged in ATIS’ IPTV standardization efforts through the ATIS IIF, including Verizon, Qwest, AT&T, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Cisco, Motorola, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. The ATIS IIF was formed at the recommendation of an IPTV Exploratory Group to the ATIS Board of Directors.

About ATIS

ATIS is a leading standards development and technical planning organization 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 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees, Incubator Solutions Program, and other activities. www.atis.org