Pipeline Q&A (cont'd)

Which SPs are participating in these projects?
TMF: Service provider participants include, but are not limited to SBC, BT, China Unicom, AT&T, Vodafone, and Swisscom.

What's the latest on the lean operations front?
TMF: The entire telecommunications industry is aware of and striving for lean operations. All telecom service providers recognize the need for lean operations and today's environment vendors are providing applications and technologies critical to achieving streamlined operations in this OSS/BSS nirvana.

What issues is your technical team tackling this year?
ICG: The TM Forum is made up of numerous technical teams. Some key issues being focused on are telecom service provider benchmarking, SLA guidelines, revenue assurance, NGN management, MTMN, Convergence, IP VPN, and many more.

Pipeline: The TMF certainty provides an array of topics and panel discussions each year. Who can we expect to hear from?
ICG: We are proud of our impressive speaker list which includes C-level executives from the world's most important telecom service providers and vendors. This show's speakers include: Matthew Bross, Chief Technology Officer, BT Group, Stefano Pileri, leader of Telecom Italia Group's Wireline Division, Kerry Ritz, President, Vonage UK, Matt Desch, Chief Executive Officer, Telcordia Technologies, and David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, MetaSolv Software.

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