27. March 2000, Sestriere, Italy

TINA-C Announces "TINA Specifications and Products for Open Service Architecture" during its Sestriere Meeting: Final Version

• The TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) Consortium held its latest semi-annual meeting hosted by CSELT in Sestriere, Italy during the week of March 20, 2000.
• Senior executives from TINA-C member companies reviewed and discussed ongoing TINA-C projects in the areas of, for example, Open Service Architecture, IP Network Control Management and UMTS/VHE. TINA-C plans for their completion in year 2000.
• TINA-C approved specification for "TINA Conformance Testing Framework," providing the key mechanism in achieving TINA branding.
• The China TINA-Project Group (TINA-PG) announced that China is working on its "10th 5-year plan" and "Long-term plan (2001-2015)" to upgrade the China Telecommunication Infrastructure. The plan anticipates rapid growth and requires future-proof technologies. TINA has been proposed to Ministry of Information Industry (MII) as a candidate for target architecture for its network. "The China TINA-PG is making an intention-investigation here to be used as an evidence for reporting and proposing to MII to open the China TINA-PG to any interested organizations in the world from the year 2001. This arrangement will enable us to enjoy the globally-ensured technologies based on TINA to update our infrastructure for the 21st century. We expect that many global leading companies in this area are willing to join us." said Dr. Ji, Zhaojun, the Chair of China TINA-PG.
• Infitel, a young, fast-growing, Telecommunications Software company, introduced its product (InfiCore). InfiCore provides a flexible platform over different network technologies, for example, VoIP, PSTN, Web and WAP services over the Internet. InfiCore complies with TINA Principle, Concept and Layering/Partitioning. "The main intent of Infitel in adopting TINA technologies is to enable forward-looking evolution of its products. Thanks to the advancement of IT technologies, performance and reliability of InfiCore products on the top of high performance telco-grade ORB satisfies the requirements of a variety of telecom service providers/system integrators." said Mr. Holger Schreyer, the Manager, Product Management, Infitel.
• TINA-C announced its achievements and future plans influencing developments in a variety of Standardization Bodies, including Object Management Group (OMG), 3GPP cooperating with the ETSI SPAN3, Study Group 10 (Telecommunication Software) and Study Group 11 (Switching and Signaling) of ITU, and Telecommunication Management Forum (TMF).
• Dr. Sadahiko Kano, Executive Advisor to NTT and President of TINA-C said "I am very proud to say that good ideas created by TINA-C are coming into the market as products and also being adopted as a basis for important applications such as Open Service Architecture (OSA) of 3GPP."

• THE TINA CONSORTIUM IS AN INDUSTRY FORUM OF OVER 40 OF THE LARGEST TELECOM OPERATORS, NETWORK EQUIPMENT VENDORS, COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PROVIDERS. IT IS DEVOTED TO PRODUCING THE GUIDELINES AND SPECIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR OPEN NETWORK AND SERVICE ARCHITECTURE. For more information, please contact ceo@tinac.com and visit us at http://www.tinac.com/