Last week, the long-awaited merger of two key TIA engineering committees became official: TR-42: User Premises Telecommunications Cabling Infrastructure and FO-4: Fiber Optics merged at their meeting in Tampa, Fla. The committees were merged to create a synergy of leadership and other committee resources, an obvious result of combining the efforts of the two cable-oriented groups.

All future meetings will be held jointly, and former FO-4 subcommittees will now be labeled as TR-42 subcommittees: FO-4.1: Optical Systems will be TR-42.11: Optical Systems, and so on.

For more information on TR-42, please contact Marianna Kramarikova at +1.703.907.7706 or mkramarikova@tiaonline.org.

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This week, TIA sent the TIA-1137 series of documents for legal review, a key step in establishing the up-to-date version of the wireless-IP standard. TIA's TR-45.6: cdma2000® Wireless Packet Data Technology - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards Subcommittee and related staff oversee the execution of the standard, including all legal filings.

TIA-1137 defines an architecture model and set of specifications for a Converged Access Network (CAN) that can support real-time services such as VoIP, Video Telephony or voice and video streaming. The proposed architecture supports multiple access technologies including the Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) air interface.

TIA staff also continues to prepare for the upcoming TR-45 subcommittee meetings in China.

For more information on TR-45, please contact Peter Bogard at +1.703.907.7961 or pbogard@tiaonline.org.

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The WTSC G3GSN/TIA TR45.2 Joint Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) Committee held a joint conference call today (Wednesday), bringing representatives of TIA and ATIS together to work out interface standards for the same mobile alert system currently under consideration by the FCC. This is the second convening of the groups, following a successful meeting this January.

The next joint face-to-face meeting and conference call will be held March 18-20 in Phoenix hosted by AT&T: March 18 will be reserved for WTSC-specific work, while March 19-20 will be reserved for joint committee work.

For more information on TR-45 and TIA's work with ATIS, please contact Peter Bogard at +1.703.907.7961 or pbogard@tiaonline.org.

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Select subcommittees of TIA's TR-45: Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards Committee are gearing up to meet February 18-22 in Xiamen, China, to address pending documents and hold elections.

TIA's TR-45.4: Radio to Switching Technology - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards Subcommittee will continue to develop UMB Interoperability Specification (IOS), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) inter-technology handoff, and HRPD IOS improvements and will hold its Vice-Chair election, for which Qualcomm's David Ott is currently running unopposed for his fourth term. 

According to Ott, "standards work is progressing with the recent approval for publication of TIA-1134, IOS for UMB Radio Access Network Interfaces. Member companies are now reviewing this text for implementation."  On the inter-technology handoff side, standards frameworks have been approved for UMB-HRPD-1x (TIA-1135), WiMAX-HRPD (TIA-1143) and LTE-HRPD (TIA-1142). "Call flows and procedures for handoff between technologies are progressing for these standards and heading towards second quarter 2008 publication," Ott said.

For more information on TR-45 please contact Peter Bogard at pbogard@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7961.

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TIA's TR-42: User Premises Telecommunications Cabling Infrastructure Committee is holding a full committee meeting in Tampa, Fla., this week, including the election of officers and the establishment of a basic timetable for standards currently in progress.

The committee will address the 568-C standards for generic or commercial cabling for designers by June of this year, while looking to the TIA-1005 Industrial Cabling standard in October. The 568-C standard for copper cabling manufacturers is slated for 2009.

Also this week, TR-42 Chair Herb Congdon of Tyco Electronics and Vice Chair Bob Jensen of Fluke Networks were reelected. In another election during this week, the members of TR-42.8 Telecommunications Optical Fiber Cabling Systems Subcommittee elected Bob Jensen as Chair and Herb Congdon as Vice Chair.

Meanwhile the TR-42.6: Telecommunications Infrastructure and Equipment Administration Subcommittee elected Steve Huffaker of JPMorgan Chase as Chair and Jonathan Jew of J&M Consultants as Vice Chair.

For more information on TR-42, please contact Marianna Kramarikova at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7706.

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TIA's TR-41: User Premises Telecommunications Requirements Committee is meeting this week in New Orleans and its subcommittees have been active.

The TR-41.3: Analog and Digital Wireline Terminals Subcommittee is kicking off work to revise its stutter dialtone standard and add coverage for VoIP telephones to its successful TIA-1083 hearing-aid compatibility standard, and It is also continuing work on requirements for speakerphone and answering system performance. The TR-41.4: VoIP Systems - IP Telephony Infrastructure and Endpoints Subcommittee will handle maintenance items on older standards in preparation for moving some of them to inactive status. TR-41.7: Environmental and Safety Considerations Subcommittee members are completing their review of a UL document on overcurrent protection devices based on input they previously provided. They are also beginning a new project on power fault and lightning surge protection for Ethernet in the Final Mile (EFM). The TR-41.9: Technical and Administrative Regulatory Considerations Subcommittee will announce the publication of three documents related to FCC Part 68 network harms issues: TSB-31-C measurement guidelines; TIA-168-B labeling requirements; and TIA-1096-A connector requirements.

For more information on TR-41 please contact Ronda Coulter at rcoulter@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7974.

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If you are interested in participating in the development of standards or in any of the TIA standards-development process, please complete an online application at http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/join/apply.cfm.

New Project Numbers:
Project Number 3-4442 (if approved to be published as TIA-4720000-B) – if interested, contact Mike Kinard, OFS at (770) 838-5307, or via email at mkinard@ofsoptics.com 1/21

Project Number 3-4699-RV1 (if approved to be published as TIA-203-A) – if interested, contact Casey Shaar, Phton Kinetics at (503) 810-2955, or via email at casey.shaar@pkinetics.com 1/21

New Project Proposal Ballots:
Project Proposal No. 3-0095-RV1-1, proposed revision TIA standard, Enhanced Cryptographic Algorithms (if approved, to be published as TIA-946-A). 1/21

Project Number 3-0281, a proposed creation of a TIA Standard, Forward Link Only Media Adaptation Layer Specification, (if approved, to be published as TIA-1130) 1/21

 Project Number 3-3230-WD, a proposed withdrawal of a TIA Standard TSB-62-3, Mode Power Distribution and Mode Transfer Function Measurement 1/21

 Project Number 3-0277.513, a proposed creation of a TIA Standard, VoIP Supplementary Services Description: Message Waiting Indication, (if approved, to be published as TIA-1126.513) 1/21

New Documents Available:
TIA-1098, Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA) Framework 1/21

To check the status of any ballot (PN or SP), go to the TIA web page in the Standards Section to obtain current information. The link for PN ballots is:
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/sfg/pn_report.cfm or for SP ballots
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/committees/ballots/sp_report.cfm.

Check the TIA Calendar for upcoming standards meetings or events.

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