Telcordia Technologies Contributions to Industry Standards

 

Telcordia Technologies is an industry leader in the development of technical  standards for the telecommunications industry.  We have extensive technical participation and leadership in all the major telecommunications standards bodies.  Our participation equates to over one hundred person-years of effort by over two hundred scientists and engineers. A key objective of our standards body leadership has been to proactively work towards the development of robust industry-wide standards that will facilitate the development of interoperable equipment and interoperable networks. 

 

Examples of Telcordia Technologies' participation and leadership in specific standards bodies follow.

 

Telcordia Technologies holds the Chairmanship of Committee T1, Telecommunications, the leading developer of telecommunications network interface standards in the U.S.  Within Committee T1, Telcordia Technologies provides technical leadership in all six T1 Technical Subcommittees: T1A1, Performance and Signal Processing; T1E1, Interfaces, Power, and Protection of Networks; T1M1, Internetwork Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning; T1P1, Wireless/Mobile Services and Systems; T1S1, Services, Architecture and Signaling; and T1X1, Digital Hierarchy & Synchronization.  Telcordia is strong in T1S1, reflecting our strength in the areas of signaling systems, broadband, IN and NGN architectures. Within T1S1, Telcordia has recently held the T1S1 Chair position and currently holds the T1S1.3 Vice Chair position. Telcordia Technologies submits many technical contributions to these committees every year, in addition to chairing several of the technical working groups and subworking groups of the six T1 Technical Subcommittees described above.

 

Internationally, Telcordia Technologies is a frequent contributor to the work of the ITU (International Telecommunion Union), the primary organization for development of international telecommunications standards.  Telcordia Technologies also provides leadership in the work of the International Telecommunications Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department, which is charged with developing and approving U.S. positions to the ITU.  In addition to its major technical contributions, Telcordia Technologies participates in the Advisory Committee to the ITU Telecommunications Standardization Sector (TSAG), an executive level steering committee which provides broad level direction in the development of ITU international standards, and also holds the Chair of Study Group 11’s Working Party 4, which focuses on Intelligent Network and advanced architectures.

 

In addition to T1 and ITU, the major telecommunications standards bodies for U.S. and international standards, respectively, Telcordia also provided leadership in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by chairing the working group for securely managing DS1/E1, DS2/E2, DS3/E3, SONET/SDH and optical trunking and ATM and authoring standards in these areas.  Further examples of Telcordia standards participation are IEEE standards on wide area network protocols used for high speed Ethernet; TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) standards on fiber optics, wireless networks and customer premises equipment; forums established by ATIS, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, such as the Network Interoperability and Interconnection Forum (NIIF), the Industry Carriers Compatibility Forum (ICCF), and the Telecommunications Industry Forum (TCIF); the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); the Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC); ISO, International Organization for Standardization, responsible for Open Systems Interconnection Standards; IEC, the International Electro-technical Commission; the Frame Relay Forum, and the ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Forum, which is concerned with the implementation of standards necessary for a broadband, multimedia telecommunications infrastructure.  Telcordia Technologies is also an active participant of the Parlay Group, Java in Advanced Intelligent Networks (JAIN) and the recently formed Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).  Finally, Telcordia Technologies is an active participant in 3GPP and 3GPP2.

 

In the area of optical networking Telcordia has long been recognized for it’s innovation and has participated at leadership levels in the industry: we have well over 100 patents in the area of optical networking, we have won two IR&D 100 awards, our scientists have chaired the prestigious Optical Fiber Communications Conference, and been active on the committees of numerous other prominent conferences.  Telcordia is a founding member of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), and chairs the OAM&P working group. 

 

Telcordia experts have helped to create standards for the Internet. Some examples of IETF RFC specifications, done over the years, include:

 

 

 

rfc2547bis         2002 -- E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, T. Bogovic, R. Vaidyanathan, et. al; BGP/MPLS VPNs

rfcEtherWIS     2002 -- Mike Ayers, John Flick, C. M. Heard, Kam Lam, Kerry McDonald, K. C. Norseth, Kaj Tesink; Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet WAN Interface Sublayer

rfc2960             2000 -- R. Stewart, Q. Xie, M. Kalla, et.al; Stream Control Transmission Protocol

rfc2705             1999 -- M. Arango, A. Dugan, I. Elliott, C. Huitema, S. Pickett; Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)

rfc2558             1999 -- K. Tesink, Bellcore; Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type

rfc2515             1999 -- K. Tesink, Bellcore; Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management

 

rfc2493             1999 -- K. Tesink, Bellcore; Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals

rfc2289             1998 -- N. Haller, Bellcore, M. Straw, Bellcore,  C. Metz, Kamer Science & P. Nesser, Nesser & Nesser Consulting; A One Time Password System

rfc1886             1995 -- S. Thompson, Bellcore & C. Huitema, Bellcore; DNS Extensions to Support IP Version Six

rfc1694             1994 -- T. Brown, Bellcore and K. Tesink, Bellcore; Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces using SMIv2

rfc1680             1994 -- C. Brazdziunas, Bellcore; IP ng Support for ATM Services

rfc1407             1992 -- T. Cox, K. Tesink; Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type

rfc1343             1992 -- N. Borenstein, Bellcore; A User Agent Configuration Mechanism for Multimedia Mail Format Information

rfc1326             1992 -- P. Tsuchiya, Bellcore; Mutual Encapsulation Considered Dangerous

 

Telcordia Technologies’ involvement goes beyond industry standards.  Our force of world-class experts are instrumental in helping to ensure network interconnection of multiple suppliers equipments in our clients' networks.  We do this through development of detailed technical requirements which provide added features and details to industry standards, and through testing of vendors’ equipment for potential interoperability problems.

 

The following are some of the major, officer-level, leadership positions held by Telcordia Technologies (both past and present):

 

Raymond Hapeman

Committee T1

Chair

Martin Sullivan

US ITU Association

Board Member

ITU-T TSAG – WP 1

Chair (past)

Jay Hilton

ITU-T SG 11 – WP 4

Chair

 

ANSI T1S1

Chair (past)

Douglas Zuckerman

OIF OAM&P WG

Chair

Wes Downum

ANSI T1S1.3

Chair

Gary Richenaker

ITU-T SG 2 (Ntwk Ops) / WP 1 / Q1 Numbering)

Rapporteur

US ENUM Forum

Chair

Garry Couch

ANSI T1A1.3

Chair

Ed Szczepanski

ANSI T1M1.5

Vice Chair

Tobey Trygar

ANSI T1X1.5

Vice Chair

Adam Wertheimer

ANSI T1X1.3

Acting Chair

Spilios Makris

ANSI T1A1.2

Chair

Subir Das

IETF Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access WG

Co-chair

Dave Famolari

OSGi Device Experts Group

Co-chair

John-Luc Bakker

3GPP CN WG5

Vice Chair

John-Luc Bakker

Parlay X Web Services

Co-chair

John Wullert

Parlay ETS

Chair

David Gorton

The Parlay Group

BoD member

John-Luc Bakker

Various JAIN working groups

Specification Lead