Can Telecom Become the New Geek Squad?

Before network service providers can claim – assuming they want to – the mantle of ownership for the end-to-end customer experience by extending their responsibility to the home network, someone needed to claim the mantle of owning the monumental task of defining the practices and standards that will allow service providers to do the job right. ATIS has accepted that mantle.

In mid-January the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced the creation of the ATIS Home Networking (HNET) Forum.

ATIS is not alone in its interest in home networking. The challenges and opportunities of home networking have been on the radar of service providers and independent support agencies and device manufacturers for a long time.

Groups working on standards in their primary area of focus include the IETF, the Broadband Forum, the Open Mobile Alliance, the Multimedia over Coax alliance (MoCa), the Homeplug Powerline Alliance and many equipment manufacturers. ATIS now plans to holistically assess the wide variety of ongoing home networking standards development work and provide a pragmatic solution to the decentralized home networking standards development arena.

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