Telecommunications Essentials

Standards Organizations

Telecommunications is a major industry sector for two main reasons: First, it generates vast amounts of revenue every year, and second, it touches every aspect of life and business. Networking is an international phenomenon, and recommendations have to be made on how systems and networks should interoperate. Standardization within the industry is intended to perform three basic functions:

• Facilitate interconnection between different users.

• Facilitate the portability of equipment within different regions and applications, with the intent of increasing market size, resulting in reduced costs for all.

• Ensure equipment interoperability, so that different vendors' products work with each other.

Standards bodies that make such ...