AFC, Cable & Wireless, Ericsson and Nortel Networks Join Multiservice Switching Forum; 2004-2005 Board of Directors Announced.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2004 The Multiservice Switching Forum The Multiservice Switching Forum, MSF, also sometimes MultiService Forum, is a telecommunications industry association. MSF promotes interoperability in the field of Next Generation Networking products and services. (MSF MSF Manufacturing, Science, and Finance (Union) ) announced at its quarterly Technical Committee meeting today that telecom industry giants Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. ), Cable & Wireless, Ericsson and Nortel Networks have joined the Forum. With the inclusion of Ohio-based Applied Innovation, a network management solutions company and Holland's Teledata Networks, a wireline access platform maker, six new members have joined the MSF in 2004. "The MSF is proud to welcome these new members," said Roger Ward, MSF president. "It's especially gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. when so many industry luminaries join at the same time. I'm confident that each of these new members will make significant contributions to the MSF's ongoing technical and interoperability programs." "The new membership of six industry powerhouses is a clear sign that the MSF has assumed a leadership role in the VoIP and packet communications arena," said Graham Beniston, analyst at Heavy Reading. In other news from the Toronto quarterly meeting, the MSF's board of directors for 2004 - 2005 held its first meeting. New directors include Byung-Sun Lee, Core Technology Group director at ETRI ETRI Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) ETRI Enhanced Threat Reduction Initiative ETRI Electronics Telecommunication Research Inc. , James McEachern, Succession Standards Strategy director at Nortel Networks and Tatsuro Murakami, executive research engineer at NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform . Avri Doria, visiting researcher at ETRI was elected chairperson of the Technical Committee. Juliet Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , systems architect in the Fixed Solutions Division at Alcatel was elected as vice chair of the Technical Committee. Neil Anderson, senior director of services at Spirent Communications, was reelected chairperson of the Marketing Awareness and Education Committee. Jason Grooms, vice president of sales at Leapstone Systems was reelected vice chairperson of the Marketing Awareness and Education Committee. Paul Drew, product manager at MetaSwitch was elected chairperson of the Architecture Working Group. Brian Down, director of network transformation at Marconi was elected chairperson of the MSF Management Advisory Group. About Multiservice Switching System Technology Multiservice Switching Systems of the future will be based on a distributed, open architecture which incorporates a variety of switching methods -- frame, cell or packet-based -- designed to support voice, video, private line and data such as ATM, Frame Relay and Internet Protocol (IP) services. Such technology may use a broad range of access technologies, including traditional Time Division Multiplexing (communications) time division multiplexing - (TDM) A type of multiplexing where two or more channels of information are transmitted over the same link by allocating a different time interval ("slot" or "slice") for the transmission of each channel. I.e. (TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ), Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (xDSL), wireless data, and cable modems. MSF Implementation Agreements define the requirements of the interfaces between key functional and physical components found in practical deployments of such systems. About the Multiservice Switching Forum The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) is a global association of service providers and system suppliers committed to developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice switching systems. Founded in 1998, the MSF is an open-membership organization comprised of the world's leading telecommunications companies. The MSF's activities include developing implementation agreements, promoting worldwide compatibility and interoperability, and encouraging input to appropriate national and international standards bodies. For more information about the MSF and its members, visit the MSF web site at http://www.msforum.org/. |
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