Mandate:
The Working Group on Technology will review standards
currently developed in support of next generation networks (NGN) and legacy
networks, and consider the network infrastructure required to support
secure, high-performance, network based delivery of personalized services
(voice, data and multimedia) to end users – regardless of time and place.
This group will make specific
recommendations (Standards Coordination Documents, Technical Notebooks,
etc.) that best serve the current and future needs of the users of networks
through the region
Terms of Reference:
- To identify and evaluate technical
issues relating to the protocol standards required for interconnection
and interoperability of existing and future communications networks (wireline
and wireless) across the region that will ultimately result in the
emergence of a single, seamless network.
- To draw primarily on the work of
existing standards-setting bodies, based on the Recommendations of the
ITU, and taking into consideration the work of other bodies and fora as
appropriate.
- To develop a better understanding of
the benefits associated with broadband technologies.
- To study the development of new generation services,
especially supported by IP, and their impact in the Americas Region; as
well as providing information on these services to the countries of the
Region.
- To establish liaisons with other
standards bodies and industry fora as necessary to advance in the work.
Authorities:
| Chair: |
Mr. Oscar Avellaneda (Canada) |
| Vice Chair: |
Ms. Regina Maria De Felice Souza (Brazil) |
| Vice Chair: |
(TBD) - Argentina |
