Parlay Group Opens 2002 Event with New Specification; Hong Kong Meeting Highlights New Service and New Revenue Demonstrations.Business Editors SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The Parlay Group announced today an expanded agenda for its sixth open member meeting in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , February 5 - 7, 2002. Registered attendance is more than 30% greater than the last Parlay meeting held in Munich, Germany, September 2001. This 3-day event will provide an opportunity for members and interested parties to view presentations and demonstrations of the Parlay Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Themed: "New Services, New Business, New Revenues," Parlay Members will demonstrate how to create new business revenues using the Parlay APIs. A full day of education about Parlay including "Hands-on Building Applications with Parlay" will be presented. This meeting will introduce Parlay's new API New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use interrupt mitigation techniques for networking devices in the Linux kernel. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving. specification, jointly developed and copyrighted, with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. , the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (body) European Telecommunications Standards Institute - (ETSI) A European version of the ITU-T(?). . This specification, along with Parlay's own Policy Management and PAM (Presence and Availability Management) specifications, make up the foundation of the 'new business revenue' opportunities being demonstrated at this event. "OTE OTE Chiefly Brit (esp. in job adverts) on target earnings: the minimum amount of money a salesman is expected to make OTE abbr (Comm) (= on-target earnings) → Einkommensziel nt is pleased to join other Telco's and industry groups like Parlay in the quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the a new business model in the area of services and IN," said Ilias Karatzas, Head of OTE Research Labs. "OTE has already experimented with API-based service creation and is now moving toward the direct experimentation with Parlay API's. We expect to address both the long-term schema of the public IN infrastructure, and to eventually be able to offer IN-enabled CPE's with today's tested technology." Parlay Members participating or presenting at this event include: AePONA GMD FOKUS Personeta Alcatel Hewlett Packard SBC Technology Resources Appium Technologies IBM Siemens AG BTexact Technologies Incomit AB Sun Microsystems Cisco Systems Kabira Technologies Tecnomen Compaq Computers Logica Telcordia Comverse Lucent Telecom Italia Emblaze Systems Marconi Communications Telrise Ericsson National Comm. Systems Teltier Technologies France Telecom Net4Call UANGEL Fraunhofer Fokus Nokia Ulticom FTW Telecommunications NTT VeryTech Co. Fujitsu OTE Vodafone About the Parlay Group The Parlay Group is an open, multi-vendor, non-profit forum organized to create open, technology independent Application Programming Interface (API) specifications that enable network operators, independent software vendors and service providers to write applications across multiple networks and multiple network technologies. Parlay's activities are intended to define, establish and support a common specification for industry standard APIs, while making appropriate submissions to established agencies and bodies to ratify these specifications as international standards. The Parlay Group seeks to accelerate the adoption of these APIs through the sponsorship of developer education programs, interoperability activities and promotions. Information about The Parlay Group, the current specifications, and how to join can be found at www.parlay.org. About ETSI ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) is a non-profit-making, independent organization whose mission is to produce the telecommunications standards that will be used for decades to come throughout Europe and beyond. Based in Sophia Antipolis Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. (France), ETSI unites 923 members from 55 countries inside and outside Europe, and represents manufacturers, network operators, administrations, service providers, research bodies and users. The Institute's work programme is determined by its members, who are also responsible for approving its deliverables. As a result, ETSI's activities are maintained in close alignment with the market needs expressed by its members. ETSI plays a major role in developing a wide range of standards and other technical documentation as Europe's contribution to world-wide standardization in telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology. ETSI's prime objective is to support global harmonization har·mo·nize v. har·mo·nized, har·mo·niz·ing, har·mo·niz·es v.tr. 1. To bring or come into agreement or harmony. See Synonyms at agree. 2. Music To provide harmony for (a melody). by providing a forum in which all the key players can contribute actively. ETSI is officially recognized by the European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community and the European Free Trade Association European Free Trade Association (EFTA), customs union and trading bloc; its current members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. EFTA was established in 1960 by Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. (EFTA EFTA: see European Free Trade Association. ). ETSI web site: http://www.etsi.org Note to Editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on The Parlay Group, please visit our web site (www.parlay.org) or contact Mr. Paul Ritchie, Parlay Executive Director, 2694 Bishop Drive, San Ramon, CA, 94583, USA, phone 925/275-6642. |
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