Birds-Eye.Net Broadband Standards Associations Directory

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
c/o ETSI
Mobile Competence Centre
650, route des Lucioles
06921 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex
(v) +33.(0)4.92.94.42.00
(e) email 3GPP
Notes: 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
100 Barr Harbor Drive
West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959
(v) 610.832.9500
(e) email ATSC
Notes: ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Known for their high technical quality and market relevancy, ASTM International standards have an important role in the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing and trade in the global economy.

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)
1750 K Street NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
(v) 202.872.9160
(e) email ATSC
Notes: ATSC is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries. ATSC creates and fosters implementation of voluntary Standards and Recommended Practices to advance terrestrial digital television broadcasting, and to facilitate interoperability with other media.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
1819 L Street, NW, 6th floor
Washington, DC 20036
(v) 202.293.8020
(e) email ANSI
Notes: ANSI mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Cable Television Laboratories
858 Coal Creek Circle
Louisville, CO 80027-9750
(v) 303.661.9100
(e) email CableLabs
Notes: CableLabs is a nonprofit research and development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator members integrate those technical advancements into their business objectives.

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
C/O VTM Attn: Membership Services
3855 SW 153rd Drive
Beaverton, Oregon 97006 USA
(v) 503.619.0422
(e) email DLNA
Notes: DLNA Member Companies share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of Personal Computers (PC), Consumer Electronics (CE) and mobile devices in the home and on the road, enabling a seamless environment for sharing new digital media and content services. To this end, DLNA is focused on delivering an interoperability framework of design guidelines based on open industry standards.

Digital Subscriber Line Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd. - Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
(v) 510.492.4020
(e) email DSL Forum
Notes: Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive to develop the full potential of DSL to meet the broadband needs of the mass market. In eleven years, the DSL Forum has moved through defining the core Digital Subscriber Line technology to establishing advanced architecture standards, and maximizing effectiveness in deployment, reach and application support. We have driven global standardization of ADSL, SHDSL, VDSL, ADSL2plus, and VDSL2 and more are in process. These will provide a complete portfolio of digital subscriber line technologies designed to deliver ubiquitous broadband services for a wide range of situations and applications that will continue the transformation of our day-to-day lives in an on-line world.

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
c/o EBU
17a Ancienne Route
CH-1218 Grand Saconnex, Geneva
Switzerland
(v) +41.22.717.2714
(e) email DVB
Notes: DVB Project has proven the value and viability of pre-competitive cooperation in the development of open digital television standards. DVB’s open standards guarantee fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions with regard to Intellectual Property Rights, allowing them to be freely adopted and utilized worldwide.

Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
Electronic Industries Alliance
2500 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
(v) 703.907.7500
(e) email EIA
Notes: EIA is a national trade organization that includes the full spectrum of U.S. manufacturers. The Alliance is a partnership of electronic and high-tech associations and companies whose mission is promoting the market development and competitiveness of the U.S. high-tech industry through domestic and international policy efforts. EIA, headquartered in Arlington, Va., comprises nearly 1,300 member companies whose products and services range from the smallest electronic components to the most complex systems used by defense, space and industry, including the full range of consumer electronic products.

Gaming Standards Association (GSA)
48377 Fremont Blvd. - Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
(v) 510.492.4060
(e) email Gaming Standards
Notes: Gaming Standards Association (GSA) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1996, whose members are focused on developing and implementing a series of electronic communication standards for casino gaming equipment. The gaming industry encompasses numerous types of equipment; slot machines, kiosks, currency-counting machines, each requiring some form of communication. This communication may be between slot machines and its peripheral devices, slot machines and slot accounting and / or player tracking networks, or player tracking networks and casino management systems. Without a clear set of broad-based communication standards, the gaming industry lags behind most other industries that rely on computer technology.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10016-5997
(v) 212.419.7900
(e) email IEEE
Notes: IEEE, a non-profit organization, is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
46000 Center Oak Plaza
Sterling, VA 20166
(v) 571.434.3500
(e) email IETF
Notes: IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
1, rue de Varembé, Case postale 56
CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
(v) +41.22.749.01.11
(e) email ISO
Notes: ISO is a global network that identifies what International Standards are required by business, government and society, develops them in partnership with the sectors that will put them to use, adopts them by transparent procedures based on national input and delivers them to be implemented worldwide. ISO standards distil an international consensus from the broadest possible base of stakeholder groups. Expert input comes from those closest to the needs for the standards and also to the results of implementing them. In this way, although voluntary, ISO standards are widely respected and accepted by public and private sectors internationally.

International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Place des Nations
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
(v) +41.22.730.5111
(e) email ITU
Notes: ITU was established last century as an impartial, international organization within which governments and the private sector could work together to coordinate the operation of telecommunication networks and services and advance the development of communications technology. Whilst the organization remains relatively unknown to the general public, ITU’s work over more than one hundred years has helped create a global communications network which now integrates a huge range of technologies, yet remains one of the most reliable man-made systems ever developed.

MPLS Frame Relay ATM Forum (MFA)
48377 Fremont Blvd. - Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
(v) 510.492.4056
(e) email MFA
Notes: The MFA Forum is an international, industry-wide, nonprofit association of telecommunications, networking, and other companies focused on advancing the deployment of multi-vendor, multi-service packet-based networks, associated applications, and interworking solutions. Through the efforts of the technical and marketing committees the forum encourages: (a) input to the development of standards throughout the various industry standards groups; (b) the creation of Specifications, based upon appropriate standards, on how to build and deliver MPLS, Frame Relay and ATM networks and services; (c) the definition of Interoperability test suites and coordination of Interoperability events to demonstrate the readiness of MPLS for network deployments; (d) the creation and delivery of educational programs to educate the industry about MPLS, Frame Relay and ATM technologies, services and solutions; and (e) building the awareness of MPLS as a technology ready for wide-scale deployment within service provider networks to deliver profitable services to the end-user community.

MPEG Industry Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd. - Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
(v) 510.492.4028
(e) email MPEG
Notes: The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users. MPEGIF currently has over 100 Members and well over 2000 people subscribed to its mailing lists. Members represent very broad, worldwide interests across the board, from sectors including consumer electronics, chip manufacturers, professional equipment makers, content providers, computer makers, software companies, telecommunications, research institutions and more.

Network Processing Forum (NPF)
Notes: NPF was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation networking and telecommunications products based on network processing technologies. The organization was formed to build on the efforts of two former industry groups – the Common Programming Interface Forum (CPIX) and the Common Switch Interface Consortium (CSIX) – by delivering specifications for programmable network elements that reduce equipment time-to-market, while dramatically increasing time-in-market. Merged into the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) in June 2006.

Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)
48377 Fremont Blvd. - Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
(v) 510.492.4040
(e) email OIF
Notes: "The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) promotes the development and deployment of interoperable networking solutions and services through the creation of Implementation Agreements (IAs) for optical networking products, network processing elements, and component technologies. Implementation agreements will be based on requirements developed cooperatively by end-users, service providers, equipment vendors and technology providers, and aligned with worldwide standards, augmented if necessary. This is accomplished through industry member participation working together to develop specifications (IAs) for: external network element interfaces, software interfaces internal to network elements, and hardware component interfaces internal to network elements. The OIF will create Benchmarks, perform worldwide interoperability testing, build market awareness and promote education for technologies, services and solutions. The OIF will provide feedback to worldwide standards organizations to help achieve a set of implementable, interoperable solutions."

PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)
c/o Virtual, Inc.
401 Edgewater Place, Suite 600
Wakefield, MA 01880
(v) 781.246.9318
(e) email PICMG
Notes: PICMG's original mission was to extend the PCI standard, from the PCI Special Interest Group for use in non-traditional computer markets such as Industrial Automation, Medical, Military and Telecom. With the advent of fabric based transports PICMG specs have continued to evolve. This has resulted in a series of specifications that include CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC, CompactPCI Express, COM Express and SHB Express.

RapidIO Trade Association
Suite 325
3925 W. Braker Lane
Austin, TX 78759
(v) 512.305.0070
(e) email RapidIO
Notes: RapidIO technology is an established, scalable, packet-switched, high-performance fabric specifically developed to address the needs of equipment designers in the wireless infrastructure, edge networking, storage, scientific, military and industrial markets. Under active development since June 1997, the RapidIO standard represents continued commitment of the RapidIO Trade Association to addressing the needs of the ever changing networking and communications marketplace.

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
3 Barker Avenue - 5th Floor
White Blains, NY 10601
(v) 914.761.1100
(e) email SMPTE
Notes: The SMPTE Foundation was formed in 2001 as a separate tax exempt 501c entity operating under the auspices of its parent organization, The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. SMPTE, founded in 1916 to develop standards in the burgeoning motion picture industry, has had a long history of service to the motion imaging community through standards activity, education, promotion of engineering and scientific activity, dissemination of information and communications in these fields, and networking and career development through its membership and sectional organizational structure.

Underwriters Laboratory (UL)
333 Pfingsten Road
Northbrook, IL 60062-2096
(v) 847.272.8800
(e) email UL
Notes: An independent, not-for-profit product safety certification organization that has been testing products and writing Standards for Safety for over a century. UL evaluates more than 19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems annually with 21 billion UL Marks appearing on 71,000 manufacturers? products each year. UL?s worldwide family of companies and network of service providers includes 66 laboratory, testing and certification facilities serving customers in 104 countries.

Universal Plug-n-Play Forum (UPnP)
Bishop Ranch 6
2400 Camino Ramon, Suite 375
San Ramon, CA 94583
(v) 925.275.6645
(e) email UPnP
Notes: The UPnP Forum is a group of companies and individuals across multiple industries that play a leading role in the authoring of specifications for UPnP devices and services. Formed in October 1999, the Forum is an unincorporated entity working together in an open process to design schema and protocol standards for the UPnP initiative.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
c/o MIT
32 Vassar Street
Room 32-G515
Cambridge, MA 02139
(v) 617.253.2613
(e) email W3C
Notes: W3C is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is: To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

WiMAX Forum
15455 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
Suite 210
Beaverton, OR 97006
(v) 503.218.4854
(e) email WiMAX
Notes: WiMAX Forum is working to facilitate the deployment of broadband wireless networks based on the IEEE 802.16 standard by helping to ensure the compatibility and inter-operability of broadband wireless access equipment. The organization is a nonprofit association formed in June of 2001by equipment and component suppliers to promote the adoption of IEEE 802.16 compliant equipment by operators of broadband wireless access systems.

XML.org
c/o OASIS
P.O. Box 455
Billerica, MA 01821
(v) 978.667.5115
(e) email XML.Org
Notes: XML.org serves as an online community gathering place for those interested and involved in XML-related standards and specifications. Hosted by the OASIS international standards consortium, XML.org features Focus Areas dedicated to specific OASIS Standards and to horizontal and vertical sectors of the marketplace. XML.org advances the use of open standards by providing technical and educational information, collaborative workspaces, and discussion areas.