Stay Connected: New Developments at ATIS

ATIS to Provide Insight Into Network Evolution at International CTIA WIRELESS^® 2012
The Today’s Technology Leaders, Tomorrow’s Networks Executive Roundtables at CTIA WIRELESS^® 2012 will explore network transformation, M2M and cloud computing—and the value innovation will deliver network operators. As a featured event, the Services of Tomorrow Roundtable features John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President - AT&T Technology & Network Operations, and Tony Melone, Executive Vice President and CTO for Verizon, discussing the opportunities that innovations in sectors such as eHealth and financial services are creating for network operators. Read the press release; visit atispresents.com for program information.

ATIS Technical Report Addresses Two Key Aspects of Telepresence: Interoperability and Interconnectivity
ATIS’ Cloud Services Forum (CSF) announces the release of a Technical Report entitled Cloud Framework for Telepresence Service (ATIS-0200005), providing a high-level architecture and deployment models addressing two key aspects of a telepresence service: interoperability and interconnectivity. This is an evolving document establishing a foundation for the development of a product-agnostic, global telepresence solution for true interoperability. Until March 15, 2012, this document will be available at no charge through the ATIS Document Center by entering promotional code “CSF212”, Visit the Document Center.

ATIS Releases Multicast-Based Content Distribution Standard
ATIS announced today that its Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released the CDN Interconnection Use Cases and Requirements for Multicast-Based Content Distribution (ATIS-0200004) standards document. This ATIS standard provides a description of Multicast as a means for distributing content across two content distribution network (CDN) providers. With this new standard completed in only six months, ATIS leads the market in standardizing Multicast as a vehicle for content distribution. Learn more.

Technology and Operations Council Initiatives and Updates

ATIS Issues Major Network Optimization Recommendations
To help alleviate the growing demand for bandwidth, the ATIS Network Optimization Focus Group released a report that contains major recommendations for helping networks become more efficient at handling traffic growth while maintaining a high quality of experience for end-users. Specific network optimization actions may impact how and when traffic is routed, policed, shaped and prioritized, and may include employing optimization functions such as caching, TCP optimization, signaling proxies, video rate adaptation/compression, or buffer management techniques. Learn more.

ATIS Launches Focus Group to Address Opportunities in the Emerging M2M Field
ATIS launched the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Focus Group to analyze seizing core opportunities through standards work for communications solutions as they pertain to M2M as well as Smart Grid and the connected vehicle. An initiative of ATIS’ Technology and Operations Council, The focus group will work on several use cases that involve vehicle data, smart electric meters and other information to assess standards issues. Learn more.