Multiservice Switching Forum


The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) develops the implementation agreements for multiservice open architectures. The Multiservice Switching Forum was organized by WorldCom, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telcordia. It was cofounded in 1998 by Cisco Systems, Inc. The founding members include leading telecom service providers, AT&T, BT, Telia, Telecom Italia, and US West, as well as equipment vendors such as Alcatel, Ascend, Fujitsu, Lucent, Nortel, and Siemens. Membership is open to anyone.

Its mission is to accelerate the deployment of open multiservice switching networks, focusing on the development of architectures and industry agreements.

MSF members are international service providers and equipment suppliers. Both carriers and vendors gain benefits from this global forum.

The MSF also sponsors interoperability events to ensure proof of implementation agreements and true multivendor capability.

The MSF leverages existing agreements and standards from many associations through liaisons with the ATM Forum, IEEE, ETSI, and IETF.

More information about the MSF can be found at http://msforum.org.




Cisco Multiservice Switching Networks
Cisco Multiservice Switching Networks
ISBN: 1587050684
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 149

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