The 3GPP is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998.
The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications
standards bodies which are known as "Organizational Partners". The current
Organizational Partners are ARIB, CWTS, ETSI, T1, TTA, and TTC.
The DSL Forum is a consortium of more than 330 leading industry players
covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service
provider companies. Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive for
a mass market for DSL, to deliver the benefits of this technology to end
users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures.
ETSI TISPAN, which combines the work of the former ETSI bodies SPAN on fixed
network standardization and TIPHON(tm) on Voice over IP (VoIP) based networks,
is responsible in ETSI for all aspects of standardization for present and
future converged networks, including Voice over IP (VoIP), Next Generation
Networks (NGN).
The conference of Harmonization of Advanced Telecommunications Systems
("HATS") is a non-profit organization to promote, encourage,
and facilitate the development and implementation of interoperable multimedia
teleconferencing solutions based on open international standards in Japan.
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance, Inc. is a non-profit corporation
formed to create specification(s) that define an interoperable implementation
for streaming rich media (video, audio and associated data) over Internet
Protocol (IP) networks.
To further the adoption of the MPEG-4 Standard, by establishing MPEG-4 as
an accepted and widely used standard among application developers, service
providers, content creators and end users.
TIA represents providers of communications and information technology products
and services for the global marketplace through its core competencies in
standards development, advocacy, and market development and trade promotion
programs.
Contributes to standardization in the field of telecommunications by establishing
protocols and standards for interconnection between telecommunications networks
and terminal equipment, etc as well as to disseminate those standards.
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