TM Forum Joins Mountain View Alliance

(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 09, 2007 ) Mountain View, CA – The Mountain View Alliance (MVA), a consortium of open specification development organizations today announced that the TM Forum has joined as a new member. This addition brings the MVA membership to nine leading organizations representing more than 1000 companies ranging from carriers to component vendors. “We are pleased to be joining the Mountain View Alliance, and see this new relationship as a promising opportunity for future collaboration. Off-the-shelf needs are an important part of the communications value chain and we recognize the importance of working with organizations engaged in these areas,” said Keith Willetts, Chairman of the TM Forum. “Management of information and communications services is a key component in the broad adoption of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks for carrier grade base platforms,” said Henry Turko, the SCOPE AllianceRepresentative to the MVA. “Adding the TM Forum’s perspective on service management is a welcome expansion to the MVA’s reach.”About the Mountain View Alliance:The mission of the Mountain View Alliance is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings, and outreach activities. As the need arises, the Mountain View Alliance will also facilitate multi-faceted co-operation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the Mountain View Alliance aims to promote a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification based components and platforms.The Mountain View Alliance members are: the Communications Platforms Trade Association™, The Linux Foundation, OCAF, the Optical Internetworking Forum, PICMG®, RapidIO® Trade Association, SCOPE Alliance, the Service Availability Forum®, and now TM Forum. For more information please see www.mountainviewalliance.orgAbout the TM Forum:With approximately 600 members in 65 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of telecom, media & information services. The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators. The TM Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility. For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and TM Forum’s Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.orgContact:Henry TurkoTel: 1-650-714 5490Hhenry.turko@nsn.com

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