Transcript ATIS Interoperability - GSC-16

Document No:
GSC16-PLEN-88
Source:
ATIS
Contact:
Wayne Zeuch, [email protected]
GSC Session:
PLENARY
Agenda Item:
6.8
ATIS Interoperability
Wayne Zeuch,
ATIS
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Highlight of Current Activities (1)
• Technical standards development including contributions
to the ITU-T and other global standards groups
• ATIS’ Next Generation Interconnection Interoperability
Forum (NGIIF) continues to focus on NGN
interconnection and interoperability
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network architecture,
management,
testing,
operations, and
facilitates the exchange of information concerning these
topics.
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Highlight of Current Activities (2)
• ATIS’ PTSC Next Generation-Carrier
Interconnection (NG-CI) Task Force
– Currently working to complete Phase 2 IP network to
network interconnection guidelines, including defining
approaches for validating these guidelines.
– Phase 1 IP NNI guidelines have been completed.
These provide physical configuration, protocol suite
profile, operational information to be exchanged
between carriers, and test suites in order to support
conformance and interoperability testing.
– Testing of standards is anticipated in 1H2012.
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Strategic Direction
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• Since 1984, ATIS has frequently reviewed the range of
options to assess how it could most effectively promote
interoperability, e.g.:
– Develop technical standards, and programs to inform
industry about these standards
– Provide guidelines to facilitate interconnection
– Conduct Interoperability tests
– Develop test suites
• The rapid pace of technology development, the desire to
promote innovation and to address user needs
responsively have led ATIS to focus primarily on the
development of technical standards and increasing
industry knowledge of these standards
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Strategic Direction
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• In parallel with its standards development activities, ATIS
provides an open forum to facilitate discussion and resolution
of the operational and interoperability issues necessary to
effectively interconnect multiple service provider businesses.
• The NGIIF, in general, develops guidelines and templates for
interoperability and, where deemed appropriate, testing.
• ATIS and its members have played, and will continue to play,
a prominent role in FCC Advisory Committees on the topics of
interoperability and interconnection.
• With the pace of change and the complexity of user needs
and demands, ATIS will continue to actively evaluate how to
best address interoperability.
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Challenges
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• Standards processes, while promoting interoperability, should
also foster innovation, competition and infrastructure
development that address user needs on a timely and costeffective basis.
• The inclusion of options, ambiguities, etc., in standards make
interoperability more difficult, but reflect the realities of
consensus-development and the need for users to decide
what features and capabilities meet their needs.
• Compliance with technical standards does not guarantee
interoperability.
• These challenges can be mitigated through interop “profiles”
backed by detailed test specifications for the profile.
– IIF Test specs
– PTSC NG-CI guidelines
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Next Steps/Actions
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• ATIS groups are continuing to develop standards that
can be used to promote interoperability and facilitate
interconnection negotiations. This includes contributing
to the ITU and global standards efforts.
• ATIS will continue to outreach to others to inform them
regarding technologies, applications and their standards.
• ATIS will continue to partner with other PSOs and the
ITU on efforts that effectively promote interoperability,
innovation, competition, and cost-effective infrastructure
deployment to address market needs on a timely basis.
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Proposed Resolution
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• No changes proposed to existing
Resolution (GSC-15/28) at this time.
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Supplemental Slides
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Additional Current Activities (1)
• Technical standards development including
contributions to the ITU-T and other global
standards groups:
– ATIS’ Packet Technologies and Systems
Committee (PTSC)
– ATIS’ Network Performance Reliability and
Quality of Service Committee (PRQC)
– ATIS’ Telecom Management and Operations
Committee (TMOC)
– ATIS’ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)
– ATIS’ 3GPP effort
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Additional Current Activities (2)
• ATIS members continue to work with colleagues around
the world to progress NGN interoperability through the
development of interface and performance standards
including in the ITU-T and 3GPP.
• The focus is on specifications on topics such as:
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Services
Architecture
Signaling
Quality of Service
Security
Network Management
Emergency Communications
Identity Management
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Additional Current Activities (3)
• ATIS’ Next Generation Interconnection
Interoperability Forum (NGIIF)
• addresses next-generation network interconnection and
interoperability issues associated with emerging
technologies. Specifically, it develops operational
procedures which involve the network aspects of
architecture, disaster preparedness, installation,
maintenance, management, reliability, routing, security,
and testing between network operators.
• addresses issues which impact the interconnection of
existing and next generation networks and facilitate the
transition to emerging technologies.
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Additional Current Activities (4)
• ATIS’ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) Testing and
Interoperability Committee
– develops the necessary test scripting and test planning for
the interoperability of ATIS IIF standards and addresses
IPTV interoperability issues, providing recommended
courses of action for mitigation of the identified issues.
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Additional Current Activities (5)
• PTSC Next Generation-Carrier Interconnection
(NG-CI) Task Force
– Mission - develop an IP network to network
interconnection guideline that will provide physical
configuration, protocol suite profile, operational information
to be exchanged between carriers, and test suites in order
to support conformance and interoperability testing.
– Scope - A testing environment and tests will be defined
that can be used to perform interoperability testing of
various services between two carriers. Initial focus of the
NG-CI TF will be voice and VoIP services Interconnection
over IP-based links/networks.
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