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	The future of standardisation
	Eurescom Summit 2002
	Eurescom and the European R&D

Eurescom mess@ge 3/2002 (September)

The future of standardisation

Survey I: IEEE Standards Association
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is an international membership organisation serving today's industries with a complete portfolio of standards programmes. The organisation is based in Piscataway, New Jersey/USA. The answers to our questions were co-ordinated and sent by Karen McCabe, Senior Marketing Manager, IEEE Standards, who involved several staff members for this.
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Survey II: ITU-T
The Geneva-based ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). ITU-T's mission is to ensure an efficient and on-time production of high quality standards covering all fields of telecommunications. Our questions were answered by Houlin Zhao, Director of ITU-T's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB).
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Survey III: ETSI
ETSI; the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is a non-profit organisation based in Sophia Antipolis, France, whose mission is to produce telecommunications standards for Europe and beyond. ETSI unites 912 members from 54 countries inside and outside Europe, and represents administrations, network operators, manufacturers, service providers, research bodies, and users. Our questions were answered by ETSI Director-General, Karl-Heinz Rosenbrock.
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Read also about Eurescom's experiences with standardisation:
Experiences from Eurescom Project P1110
From P806 to ITU Rec. E. 860

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CURRENT TOPICS

Best paper award for Eurescom project FASHION
At the Networks 2002, the 10th International Telecommunication Network Strategy and Planning Symposium, which took place in Munich from 23 to 27 June, Eurescom project FASHION received the award for the best paper. Title of the paper: "Network Operator Perspectives on Optical Networks ― Evolution towards ASON".
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IN FOCUS

Iceland Telecom - SÍMINN
Telecommunications play a vital role for the Icelandic society, the country being an island in the North Atlantic about three hours flying time from London. In the 1130 years of Icelandic history, failure to communicate with the European mainland always meant times of stagnation and even starvation. Iceland Telecom takes every effort to serve its customers with a sound telecommunications network. One of these measures is the participation in collaborative R&D.
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EVENTS

Eurescom Summit 2002: Interview with Dr. Heinrich Stüttgen
Eurescom's second Summit focuses on networks and their business aspects. It will explore the technologies for future networks and will put the networks into a broader context by adding the business related service aspects. Eurescom mess@ge interviewed Dr. Heinrich Stüttgen, NEC, about his expectations as a member of both programme and organising committee towards the Summit.
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PROJECT REPORTS

Next Generation Networks ― technologies and products
Next Generation Networks (NGN) has been a buzzword for the last two years. They have been promoted as a way to decrease infrastructure and operational costs. However, there is no business analysis by now that clearly proves this. On the other hand, NGN technologies seem to have the potential for new service offerings and to be a source for new revenues. Read what Eurescom project P1109 found out about NGN technologies and products for fast service development.
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Eurescom projects DUS and MUST will demonstrate their latest in an exhibition, which will accompany the Eurescom Summit 2002 in Heidelberg. DUS will present a prototype for a Device Unifying Service, and MUST will show with a demonstrator with multimodal and multilingual functionality.