Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) Update

1. Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)Update Susan Miller, President & CEO, ATIS

2. Highlight of ATIS Activities • ATIS’ objective is to develop technical and operational solutions – standards, business use cases, best practices, requirements, road maps, definitions, interoperability tests, market analyses, technology/policy positions, etc. • ATIS places an emphasis on its members’ market-driven priorities – at the intersection of business and technology. • Led by a senior executive Board of Directors, its Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council, and its CIO Council. • Business opportunities to be realized and business challenges to be solved sets the priority agenda.

3. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Evolving Our Approach – Moving to delivering output in concert with business needs for priority work. • Tight time frames with parallel interoperability needs addressed – fast tracking more the norm; • Smaller development groups with greater range of expertise; • Engagement of business organizations with more emphasis on business value; and • “Launch and adjust” – evolutionary approach. • Landscape Teams -- to Focus Groups -- to Output Development

4. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Cloud Services -- Forum Launches • Network Optimization -- Focus Group Report completed. • Consolidation and Convergence -- Task Force Report completed. • IP Downloadable Security -- “Incubator” wrapping up with downloadable security solution specification completion. • Launching Work on: • Over The Top Services • eHealth • Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Transition • Cyber Security • Unifying Client Architecture

5. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Cloud Services Forum (CSF) Launches in February 2011 • Definition of cloud services, functional usage scenarios, and service enablers. • Interconnected cloud services and how service providers can leverage their core network and service attributes. • First Priority Use Cases: • Content Delivery Network-Interconnection • Telepresence – interworking of at least 2 systems in multiple carrier domains and across 2 different supplier TP systems plus 3 other use cases to define the ultimate service architecture. • Virtual Desktop • Virtual Private Network

6. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Completed Network Optimization Focus Group Report • Recommendations to help networks become more efficient at handling traffic growth while maintaining a high quality of experience for end-users: • How and when traffic is routed, policed shaped, and prioritized • Examined a wide range of network optimization use cases, identifying the required service capabilities, various implementation options, and regulatory considerations. • Included such optimization functions as caching, TCP optimization, signaling proxies, video rate adaption/compression, buffer management techniques, etc.

7. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Consolidation and Convergence Task Force Report • Outgrowth of ATIS’ effort on facilities consolidation • Considers consolidation in the environment of moving towards next generation networks – assessing the business drivers and technologies for consolidation. Included: • The implications of the “Next Gen CO”; • Multi-vendor support once COs are consolidated; • Managing a consolidated network; and • Regulatory impacts.

8. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • IP Downloadable Security Incubator • Mission: development of an internal, network-delivered downloadable security solution (DSS) for IPTV, including technical specifications related to DSS. • Effort extended to the “three screen experience”, mobile device applications, HTML.5 content, and MPEG-4 delivery. • Specification to be submitted to ATIS’ IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) to standardize.

9. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Over the Top (OTT) Services • Focus and support service provider interoperability and integration. • Assess how to integrate OTT as a wholesale offering. • Develop an interworking architecture for OTT services. • Target services will include VoIP Interop, Video, Chat, and Gaming • eHealth • Determine how the industry will address eHealth issues from a service provider perspective. • Assess the privacy/security concerns and develop relevant security classes for data. • Develop industry best practices/guidelines for deploying eHealthservices.

10. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • PSTN Transition • Understand what the new network should do and what it will consist of, including what components from the old network will be on the new network. • Understand the regulatory implications of rolling out the new network -- specifically for VoIP and OTT providers. • Identify security issues. • Cyber Security • Create a Cyber Security architecture to define the role of security as a foundational enabler that will provide a platform for service delivery from the mobile device/CPE, virtualized network edge, and/or the Data Center/Cloud. • Understand White House requirements on Cyber Security and identify next steps for ATIS members.

11. Highlight of 2011 ATIS Activities • Unifying Client Architecture • Identify common features exposed by devices and operating systems to application clients. • Determine information to be included in APIs for these features. • Develop a framework architecture to provide a hardware-agnostic view of device functionality.

12. Observations and Direction • The pace of innovation, the need for business relevance, the speed of the output’s delivery is more important than it has ever been to ATIS members. • The integration of network and IT are happening and will enable companies to provide services with an interoperable, media-rich, service-oriented network. • The standards landscape is shifting: greater value received from “standards for business sake.” • Re-invention of how we develop standards will be essential.

13. Observations and Direction • Reshape and rethink the “new networks” – many new forces in play. • Traditional telephone – now moving towards all IP -- offering media and entertainment. • IPTV, 3D TV, “TV Everywhere” and Holography. • IMS, Web 3.0 and IPv6. • Broadband Everywhere. • Mobility is here – new devices, services, and capabilities.