Multiservice Switching Forum Liaison with ITU Accelerates Specification Adoption; New Board of Directors, Technical Chairman Elected.Business Editors/High Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001 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) ) today announced that, in the first communication between the MSF and the ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union , the MSF has forwarded a framework document regarding Bearer Independent Call Control (BICC BICC Bearer Independent Call Control BICC Business Intelligence Competency Center (SAS Consulting) BICC Beijing International Convention Center BICC Biomedical Information Communication Center ) to the ITU-T that will enhance architectural and protocol consistency across multiservice networks. In addition, the MSF announced that it has elected a new Board of Directors for 2001. The Board of Directors oversees all aspects of the MSF's work, including the Forum's working groups and technical committee. "The BICC protocol is important in a number of multiservice network deployments, including voice over ATM and wireless networks," said Roger Ward, president of MSF. "We feel that the liaison with ITU-T will lead to a more open and complete specification for the emergent BICC protocol." The BICC document prepared by MSF's Media Control Working Group marks the first formal communication from MSF to an ITU-T group. The liaison with ITU-T is aimed at achieving greater convergence between BICC, Call Bearer Control (CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. ) and H.248, in order to promote simpler and more unified multiservice network architectures. Roger Ward, manager of future switched network technology strategy at BT was reelected president of the board. Also reelected to a second term as a board member was Morgan Littlewood, director of business development for Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. . Newly elected members of the board of directors of MSF include Pieter Poll, vice president of worldwide emerging technology at Qwest; Brian Down, network transformation architect at Marconi, and Chris Daniel  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section may be unencyclopedic and should be deleted. , senior director of next generation switching and control at WorldCom. In addition, Mark Klerer, director of solutions ready subsystems architecture at Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony was elected as chairman of the technical committee and Mark Disbrow, chief technical officer at Lucent Technologies UK, was elected technical committee vice-chairman. The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) Technical Committee is primarily responsible for furthering the technical efforts of the forum. Reviewing all proposals submitted by MSF's Working Groups, the Technical Committee works to produce technical documents to accelerate the deployment of MSF intra-switching system protocols and interfaces. About the MSF 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 Following are some of the standards bodies defined in this database. For Windows users of CDE, look up Lessons/Review/Associations. For Web users of CDE's online HTML version, review the Lessons list at the bottom of the definition. Organization Covers ANSI U.S. . For more information about the MSF and its members, visit the MSF web site at http://www.msforum.org. |
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