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Bringing the Telecommunications Industry
Together
ATIS
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions
1200 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: 202/628-6380
Fax: 202/393-5453
www.atis.org
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What is ATIS?
• A member organization of U.S., North American and
International telecommunications companies
• The sponsor of fifteen critical industry committees,
which address the most pressing technical,
operational issues affecting telecom facilities and
services.
• ATIS’ sole purpose is to provide an open, established
environment where the industry reaches consensus on
technical, operational, and business issues.
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What is ATIS?
ATIS produces telecommunications...
– standards
– guidelines
– operating procedures
– verification testing
. . .that provide innovative responses to complex industry
problems.
. . .that speed new telecommunications products and
services to market.
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What is ATIS?
• ATIS activities involve 3,000+ participants
from 400+ telecommunications companies.
• ATIS member companies and committee
participants represent every segment of the
industry.
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What is ATIS?
• ATIS Member and Committee Representation:
– Local Exchange Carriers
– Wireless Carriers
– Manufacturers of Equipment and Supplies
– Internet Service Providers
– Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
– Software Developers
– Data Local Exchange Carriers
– Interexchange Carriers
– Resellers
– Operations Support Systems Providers
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– Consulting Companies
Alliance for Telecommunications
Industry Solutions (ATIS)
International
Forum
on ANSI-41
Standards
Technology
(IFAST)
Internetwork
Interoperability
Test Coordination
(IITC) Committee
Data-Aware
Transport
Activity
(DATA)
Network Reliability
Steering Committee
(NRSC)
Generic
Requirements
Users Group (GRUG)
Industry
Numbering
Committee (INC)
Committee T1
Carrier Liaison
Committee
(CLC)
Network
Interconnection
Interoperability
Forum (NIIF)
Network and Services
Integration
Forum (NSIF)
Telecommunications
Industry Forum
(TCIF)
Standards
Committee O5
Protection
Engineers Group
(PEG)
Ordering
& Billing
Forum (OBF)
Telecommunications
Fraud
Prevention
Committee (TFPC)
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ATIS Committees Address Critical Industry Issues
Interoperability
Testing
Best Practices
Electronic Communications
Standards Development
Network
Operations
Technical Requirements
ATIS
Committees &
Forums
Network
Reliability
Ordering,
Billing and
Provisioning
Interconnection
Wireless
Numbering
Electrical Protection
Telecommunications
Fraud
Generic
Requirements
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ATIS’ Relationships Facilitate
the Work of Its Committees
CTIA
IETF
ITU
NANC
ETSI
CITEL
(S. America)
FCC
ANSI
Department of
Commerce
ATIS
NIST
U.S. Congress
USTA
U.S. Dept. of Defense
IPDR
U.S. State Department
TIA (U.S. Manufacturers)
TTC/ARIB (Japan)
TTA (Korea)
TMF COMPTEL
ALTS
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What Makes ATIS Unique?
• Not a trade association/lobbying group
• Formed in 1984 as an industry initiative to develop
technical requirements, guidelines and operational
standards procedures
• Open to all sectors of the industry
• Market driven, standards developer
• Fosters a public/private partnership that assists
regulatory bodies thereby minimizing regulatory
intervention
• Openness, Fairness, Speed are “Core ATIS Values”
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Core ATIS Values
“Core ATIS Values” are mutually-agreed upon
principles that allow an increasingly diverse and
competitive industry to find common ground and
determine only the most appropriate solutions for
the industry.
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Core ATIS Values
Fair and Open Processes
• Nondiscriminatory through Fair Rules
• No Favoritism of Technology, Position or Result
• No Favoritism Among Industry Groups or
Individual Firms
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Core ATIS Values
Value of Fair and Open Processes
• Enhance Industry Communication
• Promote Understanding of Technical and
Business Concepts
• Provide More Opportunity for
Constructive Inputs
• Permit Faster, Efficient Coordination of
Network Advances
• Ensure Development of Better and Faster
Services
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