Fall 2016Advancing ICT Industry Transformation

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IN THIS ISSUEFEATURED INITIATIVES• 5G• Evolution to Content Optimized Networks• Smart Cities• Connected Car—Cybersecurity

TOPS COUNCIL INITIATIVES• oneM2M Open Source Community• Neutral Host• Testbeds• Wi-Fi Emergency Calling• TOPS Council 2017 Priorities

INTER-COMMITTEE & FORUM ACTIVITIES• Mitigating Caller ID Spoofing and

Robocalling

SOLUTIONS AND STANDARDS• Emergency Communications• Numbering• New Version of ASOG Issued• Sustainability in Telecom, Energy and

Protection Issues

ONEM2M• Advancing Interconnection in the IoT

NEWS• ATIS Joins Advanced Wireless Research

Consortium

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & WEBINARS

UPCOMING ATIS EVENTS

UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

I am excited to report on the recent solutions ATIS is delivering for the ICT industry. As the year winds down, the results have ramped up and have been published or will be delivered by year-end:

• Several ATIS committees and forums are advancing the mitigation of caller ID spoofing and robocalling, with the goal of identifying illegitimate use of national telecommunications infrastructure to protect consumers.

• A new report, Neutral Host Solutions for Multi-Operator Wireless Coverage in Managed Spaces, was recently published, giving carriers the information needed to work together through a “neutral host” to deliver improved wireless coverage in public settings such as hotels, malls and large sporting events.

• A major update to our 5G Reimagined white paper will soon be published, which covers augmented and virtual reality and adds important additional capabilities that the 5G network must support. 5G Reimagined is a major industry resource ATIS initially published in 2015 which defines and advances North American 5G requirements.

• September marked the completion of a major examination of Wi-Fi emergency calling isues, and ATIS has also completed a new standard which defines the architecture and requirements for the National Emergency Address Database.

Creating a Smart Cities ICT Technology Roadmap, working with the auto industry to improve cybersecurity for connected vehicles, organizing the first-ever Time and Money Workshop on Time Sync in Financial Markets—and more! When you think of ATIS, think of the many results we deliver for the industry. We hope you enjoy learning about our work and how the industry advances its leading technical and business priorities through collaboration.

Visit atis.org and follow us on Twitter (@atisupdates) to stay updated.

Sincerely,

Susan M. MillerPresident & CEO

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FEATURED INITIATIVESThis update on the initiatives set into motion by ATIS’ Board-driven Innovation Agenda is a snapshot of some of the ICT industry’s most exciting collaborative work. The Agenda identifies emerging and forward-looking opportunities to advance industry alignment on key priorities. It also serves to define the overarching technology strategy, direction, and priorities for the organization—and the future of the industry. Here are some of the key featured initiatives the Agenda has set into motion.

5G

Major industry contributions advancing 5G.

Our 5G Initiative is making great strides in understanding how to enhance the new network’s efficiency, security and service velocity as well as the commercial opportunities inherent in 5G. Most recently in this work, ATIS has been adding new use cases to our 5G Reimagined whitepaper. These cover augmented and virtual reality and address important additional capabilities that 5G network must support. The ongoing analysis also provides additional detail on backward compatibility, deployment, and migration to 5G.

Published initially in 2015, 5G Reimagined is a major industry resource developed by ATIS which defines and advances North American 5G requirements. The latest version is expected in December. Also by the end of 2016, ATIS is finalizing a new white paper Optimized User Experience: Service, Ecosystem and Solution Models. This breakthrough analysis will identify: the value of QoE to user, network and applications; requirements to realize this value; and solution elements contributing to a successful ecosystem model. This report will provide specific actions to support optimized user experience, and recommend next steps.

In terms of 5G security, the FCC Technological Advisory Council (TAC) has identified a number of specific recommendations that would enable security by design in 5G. At the TAC’s request, ATIS is currently completing a technical evaluation of the TAC’s recommendations, updating where required, and identifying specific 5G security requirements to provide the basis for change requests into the 3GPP standards development process.

In addition to these contributions, ATIS is actively engaged in promoting its leadership role in the 5G space throughout the industry. Each year, in conjunction with the Big Communications Event, ATIS holds a 5G Symposium to showcase the expertise of ATIS members and their insight into the 5G future. In 2016, the Symposium room was packed with over 100 attendees, and our speakers garnered a great deal of media coverage. On November 16, ATIS takes the stage at 5G North America in Dallas to discuss the “Standards & Release Roadmap Toward 5G.” ATIS subject matter expertise is also being engaged for further analysis and input to 3GPP and other SDOs. In particular, our goal is to bring the full expertise of our Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee to help advance 5G.

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EVOLUTION TO CONTENT OPTIMIZED NETWORKS

Advancing network evolution.

ATIS launched the Evolution to Content Optimized Networks (eCON) Ad Hoc to advance the network to a future state focused on content delivery in a mobile environment. It is developing a transformative “future state” model that builds upon current research and development efforts around content naming approaches. Its work is extending early research to deliver an implementation level view of evolution to ICN-based solutions.

Use cases are being assessed across a range of evolutionary and disruptive approaches. They cover Linear TV / IPTV replacement; edge caching for Internet content; multi-path delivery support; Internet broadcast / multicast services; application of object based communications model for IoT devices; and A/V conferencing using ICN solutions. Twenty ATIS member companies are participating in the eCON Ad Hoc, including eight Service Providers and network architects and developers invested in evolution of IP networks to content-centric solutions. A final report is forthcoming in November 2016. This work is closely integrated with ATIS work in the areas of 5G, the IoT and the future of the Internet.

SMART CITIES

Creating the technology roadmap for smart cities planners.

ATIS’ Smart Cities Initiative has a near-term objective of expanding local municipalities’ investment in smart cities infrastructure. To do this, ATIS is creating a detailed Technology Roadmap, which will: examine the network-enabled technologies to be launched in the next four to five years with the greatest impact on Smart Cities to help planners make better planning and budgetary decisions; describe the implications for Smart Cities applications and sectors including transportation, energy and health; identify the key integration opportunities between Smart Cities municipal and commercial applications; and assess the timing, staging and benefits of Smart Cities infrastructure. The Roadmap will outline all key Smart Cities technology enablers including edge computing and storage, high bandwidth/low-latency next gen networks and big data analytics. The goal on the analytics front is to help cities realize the potential of the vast amounts of data that can now be collected and how it can help improve services. This fast-tracked Roadmap is expected to be completed by the end of the year. At that point, the Initiative will assess partnerships to promote future Smart Cities investments.

CONNECTED CAR – CYBERSECURITY

Leveraging ICT leadership in standards and state-of-the-art cyber development.

ATIS launched the Connected Car Ad Hoc Group in June after identifying the need to spearhead direct industry-to-industry dialogue between the ICT industry and vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to improve cybersecurity for connected vehicles. The Ad Hoc has conducted initial outreach to the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) and found that the automotive OEMs are indeed interested in working with ATIS on this topic. Therefore, the Ad Hoc is completing an analysis of the communications paths to the connected car, developing a cybersecurity threat model, and identifying solutions, including network services

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that could be offered by the ICT industry. Another fast-tracked ATIS initiative, a white paper, will be published in 4Q 2016. The white paper, and accompanying presentation, will be used to further the dialogue with the automotive OEMs and the Auto ISAC. An important objective is to support an industry-to-industry dialog that could define a set of (mandatory minimum) cybersecurity requirements that would apply to all ICT interfaces to the vehicle ecosystem.

TOPS COUNCIL INITIATIVES

oneM2M OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

Advancing the oneM2M specifications essential to enabling large-scale implementation of the IoT.

The oneM2M Open Source Community (OOSC) Landscape Team launched in November 2015 to address the significant growth anticipated in IoT services in the coming decade. OOSC has already recently completed its landscape assessment work. In 2014, oneM2M, the global standards initiative for M2M and the IoT, completed Release 1 of its technical specifications. These address the need for a common M2M Service Layer that can be readily embedded within various hardware and software and relied upon globally to connect the myriad of M2M endpoints. oneM2M continues to develop new capabilities many of which are included in Release 2, announced in September, 2016. ATIS realized that comprehensive Open Source implementations are needed to complement these oneM2M specifications in order to drive adoption, and enhance commercial value. The OOSC’s recently completed analysis concluded that gaps exist in support of lightweight open source oneM2M clients suitable for applications running on constrained hardware. A white paper discussing this conclusion and requesting input on industry priorities was developed and disseminated to critical audiences. Several companies stated a significant interest in oneM2M with a strong indication that a client-oriented oneM2M open source implementation would indeed be of value for the industry. The OOSC Landscape Team also studied the legal framework

that should be applied to such a oneM2M open source client if it were developed in ATIS. This concluded with agreement to use the permissive “3 Clause BSD (Berkley Software Distribution)” software license with a clarifying statement that the ATIS “Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” (RAND) patent policy applies. The Landscape Team’s formal work concluded with its report to the TOPS Council in October. Team leaders are taking the next steps to act on the initial expressions of interest to start development of a lightweight open source oneM2M client.

NEUTRAL HOST

Improving Multi-Operator Wireless Coverage in High-Density Areas.

The Neutral Host Landscape Team addressed the economic deployment of small cells in an enterprise and other community spaces to provide uniform cellular coverage for all users (e.g. employees, customers and guests). Today this business need typically requires deployment of small cells from all interested wireless providers, creating parallel infrastructures. A Neutral Host solution would install a common infrastructure which is shared between multiple hosted client operators to make better coverage in places like hotels, shopping malls, and large public gatherings such as music festivals and major sporting events.

In September, the Neutral Host Landscape Team published its final report, entitled Neutral Host Solutions for Multi-Operator Wireless Coverage in Managed Spaces. The report gives carriers the information they would need to work together through a “neutral host” to deliver improved wireless coverage in public settings. It offers neutral host providers and solution vendors a reference to understand the technical options available to implement these solutions. It discusses the importance of making strong Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the Neutral Host and hosted operator client networks to ensure high quality and manageable services. Neutral Host Solutions for Multi-Operator Wireless Coverage in Managed Spaces is available at no charge in the ATIS White Paper Center, a leading collection of

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resources for ICT industry solutions, innovation and issues analysis. With the publication of this report, this Landscape Team has completed its work. No further work recommended as a result of this activity.

TESTBEDS

Coordinated industry research and action to advance key industry priorities.

Our industry’s latest transition initiatives call for testbeds to validate solutions and provide proof of concept for key concepts supporting the all-IP migration and to facilitate interoperability testing between providers. Individual testbeds duplicate many functions and are inefficient to implement and maintain. That’s why the Testbeds Focus Group has developed detailed test plans covering four priority areas: Distributed Service Bureau Number Assignment, Just-in-Time Number Assignment using Existing Systems, Routing, and STIR/SHAKEN validation. (Learn more about our STIR/SHAKEN validation work in the “Mitigating Caller ID Spoofing” section on page 6 of this document.) Companies involved in our Testbeds Group have executed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to either observe or participate in testing. Efforts are currently underway to identify participating companies for those scenarios that are ready for testing. The STIR/SHAKEN validation work is first, to be followed by number assignment and routing tests.

WI-FI EMERGENCY CALLING

More ATIS work advancing the network’s emergency services capabilities.

The Wi-Fi Emergency Calling Landscape Team launched in February 2016 to analyze the impact of 9-1-1 calls made over a service provider offered “Voice over Wi-Fi” service. As wireless carriers are now supporting Voice over Wi-Fi to offload cellular networks and/or increase coverage area, emergency calling on Wi-Fi networks poses challenges. While these service offerings typically work for normal calls, emergency calls involve a number of additional functions (e.g., providing

location information and identifying the correct PSAP even when the user equipment has no visibility of the mobile network), and must reliably work for all emergency calls. This Landscape Team developed use cases reflecting all aspects of end-to-end 911 calls, including functions performed solely within the public safety answering point (PSAP), to determine if all required functionality is available and fully supported. Through its research the Landscape Team identified a number of potential issues with current Wi-Fi emergency calling specifications:

• Several specifications do not address emergency calling over Wi-Fi (only cellular)

• PSAP selection is based on Cell-ID, even when routed over Wi-Fi (i.e., if no mobile coverage is available, correct PSAP selection is not supported.)

• Roaming scenarios are not fully specified

• Wi-Fi handoff (either to cellular or to another Wi-Fi hotspot) is not fully addressed

• Wi-Fi emergency calling has single points of failure; cellular does not

• Wi-Fi emergency calling end-to-end QoS is not addressed

Nine specific actions for further study were identified for ATIS groups to improve current Wi-Fi emergency calling specifications. The Landscape Team identified the need to update or extend several ATIS committees’ related Technical Reports as well as one by 3GPP. Work has concluded coincident with the publication in September of the white paper entitled Landscape Assessment of Wi-Fi Emergency Calling. The Team recommends following through on the identified action items to undertake next steps by the responsible ATIS groups named in the report. This document is available only to ATIS members.

TOPS COUNCIL 2017 PRIORITIES

At its October 2016 meeting, the TOPS Council jump-started its work on its 2017 priorities, stating

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work would soon begin on the following topics:

NFV Capacity Planning and Service Assurance.

There is no common approach on the techniques and metrics for capacity planning and service assurance for SDN/NFV networks. In particular, when functions are operating and interacting within a “virtual engine,” there is no mechanism to accurately assess the impact on overall performance and capacity. This needs to be done at initial provisioning, and assessed on an ongoing basis as capacity changes over time. The inability to consistently measure and track capacity of virtual functions has been identified as “one of the largest barriers to wide-scale deployment” of NFV. This work will address capacity planning for virtualized functions and SDN-based user plane networks in a multivendor environment and service assurance for NFV networks by identifying key performance indicators that should be monitored and reported in the NFV infrastructure.

Reliabilty Implications of Emerging Technologies/Services.

Current reliability requirements are tailored to existing wireline /wireless technologies. Evolving services and technologies do not necessarily align with historical categories for network and service reliability. ATIS’ Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) assesses network reliability requirements, but has only limited expertise related to future technology direction. ATIS’ TOPS Council is uniquely positioned to have insight into emerging technology trends and the impact on network and service reliability.

The ATIS TOPS Council approved the launch of a Team to assess the reliability implications of emerging technologies. The scope of this work is to identify key existing end-to-end service reliability requirements and highlight areas where emerging technology trends would change reliability. This activity will identify possible challenges or opportunities associated with emerging technologies. This activity would include discussions and coordination with the ATIS NRSC. The focus of this work is service reliability, although this would include consideration of how availability and security can impact reliability. This

Team will launch early next year

INTER-COMMITTEE AND FORUM ACTIVITIES

MITIGATING CALLER ID SPOOFING

Industry-driven solutions to mitigate high-visibility problem.

ATIS is a leading industry hub for enabling solutions to mitigate the problems presented by unwanted robocalling and caller ID spoofing. This work is multi-faceted and addresses the issue from all critical angles, leveraging the expertise of multiple working groups and committees. Below, you will find some of our latest contributions:

• ATIS efforts in support of reducing unwanted robocalling and caller-ID spoofing have gained additional recognition with the launch of the FCC Robocalling Strike Force in August. The ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force and ATIS’ Packet Technologies and Systems Committee (PTSC) are two groups working to address the robocalling challenge. The timelines for the ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force SHAKEN specification and for PTSC’s report on ISUP Screening Indicator were accelerated to align with the Robocalling Strike Force timeline. Both of these initiatives are discussed below:

» Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN) is an industry framework for managing the deployment of Secure Telephone Identity (STI) technologies with the purpose of providing end-to-end cryptographic authentication and verification of the telephone identity and other information in an IP-based service provider voice network. SHAKEN is a new specification by the ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force that defines the framework for telephone originating service providers to create signatures for SIP calls and for terminating service providers to validate the signatures.

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It defines three levels of signature, depending on what the service provider knows about the call. The signatures can be used to identify illegitimate calling party information or to identify the source of calls with a spoofed caller ID. The IP-NNI Task Force is also continuing work on a Governance model and certificate management procedures, as well as further enhancements to SHAKEN.

» PTSC has developed a technical report that documents the use of the Integrated Services Digital Network User Part (ISUP) Screening Indicator, as deployed in today’s network, for conveying Caller ID Authentication information. The Report assesses the reliability of the information conveyed in the ISUP Screening Indicator and identifies limitations based on current standards, products and regulations. In addition, it documents the changes required to standards, particularly Interworking between Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and ISDN User Part ATIS-1000679, to increase the viability of using the ISUP Screening Indicator. This document will be provided to the Robocalling Strike Force as input for their recommendation to the FCC.

• ATIS’ Next Generation Next Generation Interconnection Interoperability Forum (NGIIF) has developed the Next Generation Network (NGN) Reference Document: Caller ID and Caller ID Spoofing. The document offers operational strategies that enhance the integrity of legitimate Caller ID. It defines the different types of Caller ID Services; discusses maintaining the integrity of caller IDs through certification and verified token; covers the relationship between caller ID spoofing and robocalls; outlines the examples of caller ID spoofing; and covers the impacts and regulatory environment.

• The ATIS TOPS Council is working on a STIR/

SHAKEN validation initiative. The initial focus of testing will be to validate the STIR/SHAKEN protocol to sign and verify calling number to combat illegitimate Caller ID spoofing, supporting the objectives of the FCC Robocalling Strike Force.

• On October 12, ATIS held the webinar Mitigation Techniques for Unwanted Robocalls in which 140 participants learned about practical mitigation techniques the industry is developing to provide the consumer with useful tools to reduce unwanted robocalls, highlighting ATIS’ contributions to these key initiatives. The webinar provided an update on: ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force: SHAKEN, IETF STIR, ATIS Testbed, 3GPP and more. The webinar is archived for on-demand listening.

SOLUTIONS AND STANDARDS

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

Wireless Emergency Alerts

Refining this multi-faceted alerts system, which ATIS standards and solutions have had a pivotal role in creating.

Not only has ATIS contributed the solutions that have put the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system into action; but most recently, it is refining enhancements to the system to more effectively reach mobile device users with potentially life-saving messages:

• In collaboration with FEMA, DHS, Alert Originators (AOs), Commercial Mobile Service Providers (CMSPs) and others, ATIS is developing a Best Practices document on WEA end-to-end security to include: security vulnerability and penetration test cases; consideration for security event monitoring, such as log monitoring, event correlation, and analysis; as well as DDoS protection. The goal is to provide an additional means for readily identifying false alerts. ATIS is also addressing considerations for identity and access

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management.

• The National Weather Service has requested that WEA standards support the new event codes for a “Storm Surge Warning” and “Extreme Wind Warning” to inform the public when these potentially fatal incidences occur. ATIS will address this need through developing an update to an existing standard to support the new storm and wind alerts. The previous standard, Joint ATIS/TIA Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) Federal Alert Gateway to CMSP Gateway Interface Specification (J-STD-101), was adopted as a Department of Homeland Security National Standard to provide anyone with a WEA-capable mobile device the ability to receive an alert during emergencies or natural disasters.

• ATIS will develop a WEA standard to allow inclusion of embedded references (URLs and possibly phone numbers) in any class of WEA alert. This would include modifying mobile device behavior to enable a message recipient to click on the URL to open it in the device browser, or click on the phone number to allow the user to easily dial it. Mobile device message storage may also be addressed so that, for example, a user may recall the message to click on the embedded reference at a later time. The FCC proposed a one-year trial period in which the impact of these innovations on the network can be quantified. Industry requirements for the trial period also will be developed, including appropriate voice and data traffic measurements and its impact on 9-1-1 and Wireless Priority Services.

• ATIS will also work to increase the maximum WEA message length to 360 characters for LTE, maintaining backwards compatibility for legacy technology (90 characters). This extension will allow alert originators to provide more specificity in the alert messaging. This requirement arose based upon the results of a previous ATIS feasibility study, which identified that 360 characters was feasible

and implementable. The study was conducted to address recommendations from the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).

• ATIS is also creating solutions for localized WEA testing, which will provide an option allowing local emergency managers to create geotargeted WEA broadcast test messages that would be received only by devices that enable the test broadcast through an “opt in” menu option. ATIS will also define a new WEA message category for “Public Safety” messages with a separate opt out for this new message class. This work will involve developing a best practices document to help understand the reasonable expectations of existing geo-targeting technology. ATIS’ work in this area will also contribute to development of technical consistency among carriers.

• To advance WEA device-assisted geotargeting, ATIS is working on changes to cell broadcast and defining mobile device behavior to ensure that a mobile device does not automatically display the received WEA message, but rather uses the identified polygon to determine if the message is geographically relevant to the user. International roaming aspects will also be considered, i.e., mobile device behavior for a device roaming in the U.S. and its ability to receive and render WEA messages.

National Emergency Address Database

In 2015, ATIS was selected as project manager for the 911 National Emergency Address Database (NEAD) LLC, an independent entity established by CTIA®. NEAD will store information related to the location of Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons in an effort to provide dispatchable location information to public safety officials. ATIS has recently finalized a new standard which defines the architecture and requirements for the NEAD’s buildout, as well as how information is processed. This document is entitled Location Accuracy Improvements for Emergency Calls (ATIS-0700028 v1.1).

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This ATIS standard was developed in response to a voluntary agreement for improving location accuracy for emergency calls developed and signed by APCO, NENA, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. The agreement included a roadmap for technology changes that was submitted to the FCC in response to an FCC initiative (proceeding 07-114) to provide a number of improvements to emergency location capabilities including providing a Dispatchable Location for emergency calls to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). The new ATIS Standard specifically supports the goals stated in the roadmap. It is another of the many contributions ATIS has made to enhance the effectiveness of our nation’s emergency 9-1-1 services in a wireless age.

NUMBERING

Advances to keep our numbering system current.

ATIS’ Industry Numbering Committee (INC) provides an open forum to address and resolve industry-wide issues associated with planning, administration, allocation, assignment and use of North American Numbering Plan (NANP) numbering resources within the NANP area. In recent communication with the FCC’s North American Numbering Council (NANC), the INC reported the following accomplishments:

• With only one assigned 555 number currently in service and the existing use of 555-1212 still grandfathered, INC determined that the purpose for which this resource was intended has been accommodated by other information/communication technologies. Demand for the resource has declined significantly. Therefore, INC agreed to create the 555 NXX Line Number Reference Document (ATIS-0300115), which has been posted on the ATIS Website under INC Reference Documents; to sunset the 555 NXX Assignment Guidelines (ATIS-0300048) and remove them from the ATIS website. This document is superseded by the 555 NXX Line Number Reference Document. The FCC approved this change (NANPA Change Order

5) on September 30, 2016. This change order proposed updates to the NANP Administration System (NAS). The fictitious non-working numbers, 555-0100 through 555-0199, will remain reserved as non-working numbers for entertainment/advertising. NANPA is publishing a Planning Letter announcing the sunset of the 555-NXX Assignment Guidelines and the 555 resource.

• INC has updated the Thousands-Block Pooling Administration Guidelines (TBPAG) and the Central Office Code Assignment Guidelines (COCAG) to direct the applicant to provide verifiable merger/acquisition or name change documentation linking the name on the application to the name on the 30-day State Notification when they do not match. This update aligns with the existing process requiring the name on the application to match the interconnected VoIP provider’s national authorization from the FCC and facilities readiness documentation.

• INC also updated the COCAG and the TBPAG to ensure that the existing process for implementing rate center consolidations is followed even when no tariff filing is required in a particular state that has been deregulated. This ensures that NANPA and the plan administrator, iconectiv, as well as impacted service providers continue to have adequate notification to make the necessary updates in their systems.

NEW VERSION OF ASOG ISSUED

Refining this valued industry resource.

The Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF) Access Service Ordering (ASO) released the Access Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG) Version 54 on September 23, 2016, and is scheduled for implementation on March 18, 2017. The ASOG is a major industry operations support resource. PDF versions are available below:

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• Access Service Request Guidelines (ASR), ATIS-0404000-0054 - ATIS-0404028-0054

• Unified Ordering Model - Access Service Request UOM-ASR Volume I, ATIS-0404110-0029

• Unified Ordering Model – Access Service Request UOM-ASR Volume II – Analysis, ATIS-0410002-0029

• Unified Ordering Model- Access Service Request UOM-ASR Volume III – Design, ATIS-0410003-0029

Working draft documents for ASOG v55 are also now available.

SUSTAINABILITY IN TELECOM, ENERGY AND PROTECTION ISSUES

Advancing industry solutions with several new resources.

ATIS is a major industry forum where work is taking place to help reduce the environmental impact of information and communications technologies as well as operators’ energy costs. Our work also addresses power and protection issues by delivering industry-developed solutions. Our results are enabling vendors, operators and their customers to deploy and operate more reliable, environmentally sustainable, and energy efficient communications technologies. At a recent meeting on these topics, ATIS sent several documents into Letter Ballot, a final step toward publication, and another to publication:

• ATIS advanced Electrical Protection for G.fast Systems, which assists the service providers, network designers, and system integrators in choosing appropriate protection methods for G.fast communications circuits, into Letter Ballot.

• Extensive editorial Letter Ballot comments were reviewed and completed for the Line-Powering of Telecommunications Equipment on OSP Twisted Copper Pair Loops, which attempts to bring the various standards that

define telecommunications line-powering voltage limits, power limits, and safety-related precautions into one document. The document was approved for publication.

• ATIS is also working on the topic of Wireless (Radio Base Station) Equipment Energy Efficiency.

oneM2M

ADVANCING INTERCONNECTION IN THE IOT

Newly updated global IoT standards from oneM2M will enable interconnection across devices and applications.

oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that the full potential of the IoT advanced significantly in early October with the publication of a new landmark set of oneM2M specifications, Release 2. Based on contributions from more than 200 member companies, Release 2 builds on oneM2M’s initial set of official specifications, which enable basic connectivity between applications and devices. The new specifications open up the IoT ecosystem to devices that lack the protocol and enable interworking among systems using AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn, Open Connectivity Foundation’s OIC, and the Open Mobile Alliance’s Lightweight M2M (LWM2M). As a result, the number of devices that can seamlessly connect with one other in the IoT ecosystem, estimated by Cisco to number 50 Billion by 2020, is greatly expanded. Learn more.

NEWS

ATIS JOINS ADVANCED WIRELESS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

Identifying and advancing wireless research opportunities of greatest relevance to ATIS members.

ATIS is participating as a charter member in the Advanced Wireless Research Consortium (AWR Consortium). Set into motion to maintain U.S.

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leadership in the next generation of mobile technology, the Consortium is a White House-driven initiative to advance the goals set by the National Science Foundation-led $400 million Advanced Wireless Research Initiative. The new program will enable the deployment and use of four city-scale testing platforms for advanced wireless research over the next decade. In the Consortium, ATIS will deliver technical assistance for the design and deployment of mid- to large-scale advanced wireless testing platforms. ATIS will identify a wide range of potential opportunities for research to be conducted on the platforms of relevance to its members—150 of the leading North American information and communications technology (ICT) companies. Learn more.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND WEBINARS

ATIS DELIVERS “STANDARDS AND RELEASE ROADMAP TOWARD 5G: A NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE” AT 5G NORTH AMERICA

On November 16, 2016, Jim McEachern, Senior Technology Consultant for ATIS, will present the Standards and Release Roadmap Toward 5G: A North American Perspective at 5G North America in Dallas, Texas. In his presentation, McEachern covers ATIS’ leadership role to ensure 5G is positioned to deliver the long-promised convergence of all services onto a common framework, with corresponding enhancements to efficiency, security and service velocity. He emphasizes that by representing North American 5G requirements globally, ATIS will leverage members’ thought leadership and the region’s recognized role as the incubator of new business models. Learn more.

MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR UNWANTED ROBOCALLS: UPDATES ON ATIS AND OTHER KEY INDUSTRY INITIATIVES - AN ATIS WEBINAR

ATIS is playing an important role in the coordinated industry work on techniques to prevent and reduce the impact of Caller ID spoofing and related robocalling. Our work starts with the context that a layered approach, similar

to that used in cybersecurity efforts, provides the flexibility to respond to these evolving threats, and notes that mandating a single “solution” to Caller ID spoofing would be counterproductive. An ATIS webinar, Mitigation Techniques for Unwanted Robocalls, took place on October 12 to overview ATIS’ work to address the caller ID spoofing and robocalling challenge. It is archived for on-demand listening.

ATIS DELIVERS INSIGHT INTO PROTECTING REMOTE ELECTRONIC FACILITIES USING AC POWER ISOLATION AT ISE EXPO 2016

As the need for connectivity expands, the need to protect remote electronic carrier equipment increases. At the this year’s ISE Expo, held September 20-22 in San Antonio, Texas, Dan Ashton of CenturyLink, a member of ATIS’ Protection Engineers Group (PEG), took the stage to discuss Protecting Remote Electronic Facilities Using AC Power Isolation. ISE Expo (formerly known as OSP EXPO) is the industry-leading trade show for wireless and wireline network evolution, drawing ICT network professionals from around the world attend to experience the live demos, engaging educational sessions, commanding keynotes, face-to-face networking and presentation of the latest innovations in infrastructure solutions.

ATIS IS AN INTERNET OF THINGS WEST 2016 SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION

ATIS is a Supporting Organization for Internet of Things West 2016, an event covering advanced connectivity and cloud-based control of devices, equipment, facilities and enterprise operations. The event took place November 3-4, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada co-located with other complementary events: Remote Monitoring and Control 2016 and the Antenna Systems Conference, DeviceWerx, Environmental Monitoring Technology 2016 and Micro Antennas Conference. This conference is one of two annual “Internet of Things” trade shows hosted by Webcom Communications, with IoT West serving the Western US, Canada and Mexico.

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UPCOMING ATIS EVENTS

TIME AND MONEY: THE ATIS WORKSHOP ON TIME SYNC IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

January 25, 2017 | New York Stock Exchange

www.atis.org/tam

In the finance industry, precision timing is everything. Regulators globally are increasing their focus on the issues of secure, precision time synchronization for financial transactions. Successful trading now means having a sense of time that goes beyond the basics of day/date/time to encompass an understanding of the latest

evolving time synchronization and technology alternatives. How is time delivered over the network? How can it be traced back to a trusted source that confirms transaction timing down to the microsecond?

The Time and Money workshop helps to answer these questions by bringing together not only finance and trading software specialists, but also telecom experts—the professionals managing time for the entire network. It will deliver high-level insight on how time transfer actually works and how time gets to the user; issues surrounding secure timing and available alternatives; as well as the European Union’s MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) and how it may affect precision time stamping in the U.S.

Time and Money assembles the leading collection of time transfer and delivery experts in North American closely coupled with the world’s longest running timing and synchronization workshop, the NIST-ATIS Workshop on Synchronization in Timing Systems, thus affording the financial community unique access this community of experts.

2017 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEES

January 25, 2017 | Bellevue, Washington

www.atis.org/amoc

ATIS UPDATE Fall 2016- 13 -

5G NORTH AMERICA

November 14 - 16, 2016

tmt.knect365.com/5g-north-america/

MUST SEE SESSION

Standards and Release Roadmap Toward 5G: A North American Perspective

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

2:50 - 3:10 p.m.

Speaker: Jim McEachern, Senior Technology Consultant, ATIS

INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS EXPO

March 27-31, 2017 | Las Vegas, NV

www.iwceexpo.com/iwce17/

INTERNET OF THINGS NORTH AMERICA

March 29-30, 2017 | Chicago, IL

www.remotemagazine.com/internetofthings/

UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS

PROTECTION ENGINEERS GROUP CONFERENCE

March 21-24, 2017 | Dallas, TX

www.atis.org/peg

WORKSHOP ON SYNCHRONIZATION AND TIMING SYSTEMS

April 3-6, 2017 | San Jose, CA

www.atis.org/wsts