ATIS Released the CDN Interconnection Document (free until Sept. 30)

    

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) new "CDN Interconnection Use Case Specification and High Level Requirements" standards document (see previous post - here) has been released.   

"The standard enables CDN interconnection (CDN-I) by providing for common interfaces between providers’ operations systems, back office interfaces, routing equipment, and network interconnections. The CSF’s end-to-end process perspective is designed specifically to improve the efficiency and quality of service delivery to end users. Completed in only three months, this effort demonstrates ATIS’ rapid response to evolving carrier needs and delivers inter-carrier solutions essential to broad adoption of cloud services".

Active participants list include: Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BT, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu,  Huawei, Juniper, Microsoft, Neustar, Nokia Siemens Networks, Symmetricom, Telcordia, Verizon and ZTE USA.

Until September 30, the document is available for free - see details at ATIS' press release - "ATIS Cloud Services Forum Releases Content Distribution Network Interconnection Specifications" - here. A webinar will be held on July 14, 11:00 AM (at an unspecified time zone) - here.