Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC), Cable & Wireless, Ericsson and Nortel Networks have joined the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF), a global association of service providers and system suppliers committed to developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice switching systems. Applied Innovation, a network management solutions company and Holland's Teledata Networks, also joined the MSF this year.
The MSF also announced its board of directors for 2004 -- 2005:
- Byung-Sun Lee, Core Technology Group director at ETRI
- James McEachern, Succession Standards Strategy director at Nortel Networks
- Tatsuro Murakami, executive research engineer at NTT
Other MSF officers:
- Avri Doria, visiting researcher at ETRI was elected chairperson of the Technical Committee.
- Juliet Bates, systems architect in the Fixed Solutions Division at Alcatel was elected as vice chair of the Technical Committee.
- Neil Anderson, senior director of services at Spirent Communications, was reelected chairperson of the Marketing Awareness and Education Committee.
- Jason Grooms, vice president of sales at Leapstone Systems was reelected vice chairperson of the Marketing Awareness and Education Committee.
- Paul Drew, product manager at MetaSwitch was elected chairperson of the Architecture Working Group.
- Brian Down, director of network transformation at Marconi was elected chairperson of the MSF Management Advisory Group.
