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7. Organizations Involved with Communications Standards3GPP (The 3rd Generation Partnership Project): The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. The organization defined technical specifications and reports for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA and HSUPA. The current Organizational Partners are ETSI (Europe), ARIB/TTC (Japan), CCSA (China), ATIS (North America) and TTA (South Korea). 3GPP2 (The 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2): The standardization group for CDMA2000, which was created by a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998 between ARIB/TTC (Japan), CCSA (China), TIA (North America) and TTA (South Korea). ANSI: American National Standards Institute. ANSI is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards in the United States for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. CableLabs: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. is a non-profit research and development consortium for pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and helping its cable operator members integrate those technologies into their business objectives. One of current projects is PacketCable, which is an initiative aimed at developing interoperable interface specifications for delivering real-time multimedia services over two-way cable plant. EIA (Electronic Industries Alliance): EIA is a national trade organization that includes the full spectrum of U.S. manufacturers. The Alliance is a partnership of electronic and high-tech associations and companies whose mission is promoting the market development and competitiveness of the U.S. high-tech industry through domestic and international policy efforts. ETSI (The European Telecommunications Standards Institute): An European non-profit organization to produce telecommunications standards. IEC (The International Electrotechnical Commission): An international organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies. Some of its standards are developed jointly with ISO. IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): A non-profit professional association for the advancement of technology. IEEE has a standard association with nearly 1,300 standards either completed or under development. IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force): An international community to produce technical and engineering documents that include protocol standards (called RFC), best current practices, and informational documents of various kinds. ISO (International Organization for Standardization): ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ITU (The International Telecommunication Union): An international standard (called Recommendation) setting boy within the United Nations System located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was known as CCITT prior to 1992. ITU has 3 core sectors: radio communication (ITU-R), standardization (ITU-T) and development (ITU-D). The MFA Forum: The MFA(MPLS, Frame Relay and ATM) Forum is an international, industry-wide, nonprofit association of telecommunications, networking, and other companies focused on advancing the deployment of multi-vendor, multi-service packet-based networks, associated applications, and interworking solutions. |
