The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) is a standardization organization for information technologies (ITs) in the telecommunications industry. The headquarter of ATIS is at Washington, D.C. in the US. Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ...

ATIS members include more than 300 companies representing communications service providers, equipment manufacturers, and related industry segments. Current technologies being addressed by ATIS’ 23 industry committees and ad hoc focus groups include, but are not limited to: IPTV, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), Next-Generation Networks (NGN), VoIP, Network Security, network interconnection and interoperability, telecommunications fraud and other areas. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Internet television. ... IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ...

ATIS is a member of the International Telecommunication Union’s telecom and radio sectors (ITU-T and ITU-R), an Organizational Partner of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and founding member of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC). Monument in Bern, Switzerland. ... The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) coordinates standards for telecommunications on behalf of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. ... The ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) is a standards body subcommittee of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) relating to radio communication. ... The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. ... GSC can refer to: Gentlemens Shaving Club Geological Survey of Canada Glasgow Science Centre Global Standards Collaboration GSC bus Guide Star Catalog compiled by the STScI to support HST Germline Stem Cell This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which...

ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...

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• http://www.atis.org