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The Mountain View Alliance Welcomes OCAF
(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 05, 2006 ) Mountain View, CA – The Mountain View Alliance (MVA), a consortium of open specification development organizations today welcomed its newest member – the Open Communications Architecture Forum (OCAF) is a focus group of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). OCAF’s charter is to agree on sets of open specifications for Next Generation Network equipment.
“OCAF welcomes the opportunity to work with the MVA to accelerate the creation of NGN Solutions using COTS components based on the standards called out by the Carrier Grade Open Environment (CGOE)” said Bob Withrow of Nortel, the Chair of OCAF.
Brian Holden, the Optical Internetworking Forum’s representative to the MVA, added: “Through its CGOE reference model, OCAF provides an important view of open architecture platforms; they will be a valuable addition to the MVA.”
The Mountain View Alliance promotes an environment for coexistence and compatibility among specification organizations so that real applications can be created from commercial off the shelf (COTS) building blocks. The group is making significant progress in harmonizing marketing messages and activities and well as facilitating communications among member organizations. The group’s founding members have been holding regular meetings since December 2004.
About the Mountain View Alliance:
The mission of the Mountain View Alliance is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings, and outreach activities. As the need arises, the Mountain View Alliance also facilitates multi-faceted co-operation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the Mountain View Alliance aims to promote a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification based components and platforms.
The Mountain View Alliance members are Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), OCAF, the Optical Internetworking Forum, PICMG®, the SCOPE Alliance, the Service Availability Forum®, and the RapidIO® Trade Association. For more information see www.mountainviewalliance.org.
About OCAF
The Open Communications Architecture Forum brings together Telecommunication Service Providers, Telecommunications Solutions Providers, and Technology Providers to define a common approach to the creation of an interoperable and integrated platform leveraging applicable standards and architectures, and envisions an energized communications ecosystem resulting from this work. OCAF is organized as a Focus Group operating under ITU-T's Study Group 13. More information about OCAF is available at the groups website at http://www.itu.int/itu-t/ocaf/.
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Contact:
PICMG
Rob Davidson
info@picmg.org
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“OCAF welcomes the opportunity to work with the MVA to accelerate the creation of NGN Solutions using COTS components based on the standards called out by the Carrier Grade Open Environment (CGOE)” said Bob Withrow of Nortel, the Chair of OCAF.
Brian Holden, the Optical Internetworking Forum’s representative to the MVA, added: “Through its CGOE reference model, OCAF provides an important view of open architecture platforms; they will be a valuable addition to the MVA.”
The Mountain View Alliance promotes an environment for coexistence and compatibility among specification organizations so that real applications can be created from commercial off the shelf (COTS) building blocks. The group is making significant progress in harmonizing marketing messages and activities and well as facilitating communications among member organizations. The group’s founding members have been holding regular meetings since December 2004.
About the Mountain View Alliance:
The mission of the Mountain View Alliance is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings, and outreach activities. As the need arises, the Mountain View Alliance also facilitates multi-faceted co-operation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the Mountain View Alliance aims to promote a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification based components and platforms.
The Mountain View Alliance members are Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), OCAF, the Optical Internetworking Forum, PICMG®, the SCOPE Alliance, the Service Availability Forum®, and the RapidIO® Trade Association. For more information see www.mountainviewalliance.org.
About OCAF
The Open Communications Architecture Forum brings together Telecommunication Service Providers, Telecommunications Solutions Providers, and Technology Providers to define a common approach to the creation of an interoperable and integrated platform leveraging applicable standards and architectures, and envisions an energized communications ecosystem resulting from this work. OCAF is organized as a Focus Group operating under ITU-T's Study Group 13. More information about OCAF is available at the groups website at http://www.itu.int/itu-t/ocaf/.
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Contact:
PICMG
Rob Davidson
info@picmg.org
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