17.4 DSL Forum

The DSL Forum is an international association of more than 350 companies (as of 2001) covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking, and service provider companies. Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive for a mass market for DSL and delivers the benefits of this technology to end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures .

Throughout its eight years , the DSL Forum has worked on defining the core technology as it develops, providing inputs to international standards bodies and establishing processes to deliver maximum effectiveness in the deployment and use of DSL. The Forum is focused on the complete portfolio of DSL technologies designed to deliver ubiquitous broadband services for a wide range of situations and applications that will continue the transformation of our day-to-day lives in an on-line world.

Best practices for autoconfiguration, flow through provisioning, and a range of other key facilitators of scaleable, global, mass-market deployment of DSL technology are fast-tracked by DSL Forum through its technical and marketing committees . This work takes place at quarterly, weeklong meetings and through continuous working group progress programs with formal technical reports developed from contributions and "Working Texts."

Technical Working Groups	Marketing Working Groups
Architecture and Transport	Ambassador Program
Autoconfiguration	Deployment Council
Emerging DSLs Study Group	Mindshare
Operations and Network Management	Summit and Best Practices
Testing and Interoperability	Tradeshows
VoDSL	Public Relations
	Web
	E-commerce

Further information on the DSL Forum, its work, members , and meeting schedule is available on www.dslforum.org. The DSL Forum's Web site dedicated to providing information to end-users is on www.dsllife.com. The DSL Forum offices are at 39355 California St. Suite 307, Fremont, CA 94538, phone: 1-510-608-5905.

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17.5 ATM Forum

The ATM Forum is an international forum founded in 1991 with the purpose of assisting the rapid and widespread implementation of ATM technology. The ATM Forum had more than 600 member companies in 2001. The ATM Forum consists of a managing Board, a Technical Committee, and Market Awareness Committees for Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. The Technical Committee consists of the following working groups:

ATM-IP Collaboration
Control Signaling
Frame-Based ATM
Network Management
Physical Layer
Routing Addressing
Residential Broadband
Security
Service Aspects and Applications
Testing
Traffic Management
Voice and Telephony over ATM
Wireless ATM

The ATM Forum may be reached at 1000 Executive Parkway #220, St. Louis, MO 63141 phone: 1-314-205-0200, www.atmforum.com.

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17.6 Broadband Content Delivery Forum

The BCDF addresses the delivery of broadband content and applications via the Internet and all access methods : DSL, cable, and wireless. The BCDF contains the following groups: infrastructure, content, and applications; market development; market awareness; and European regional. Further information may be found at www.bcdforum.org.

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