Morristown, NJ – July 23rd, 2007 – The TM Forum announced today that leading technical experts from around the world will meet to tackle the latest operations and management issues facing service providers as they work toward delivering next generation services in a timely and cost effective manner. The venue for this industry dialogue and standards development is the TM Forum’s semi-annual Team Action Week event (TAW), taking place at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel July 23-27, 2007.

“In today’s converging communications industry, we face a new generation of service providers that share radically different operations and management challenges compared with the traditional telco environment of the past. Representatives from these cable operators and new media providers will join leading telecom providers for this unique event – where they roll up their sleeves to tackle real issues in real time using TM Forum standards,” said Martin Creaner, president and CTO of the TM Forum.

On the agenda for the event is a newly popular NGOSS Users Group as well as more than 50 individual TM Forum team meetings on a range of topics including service delivery framework standardization, business process, and SOA architecture, to name a few.

For more information on the event or how to register, contact Rebecca Sendel at rsendel@tmforum.org or visit the TM Forum Web site at www.tmforum.org  

About the TM Forum
With approximately 600 members in 65 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of telecom, media & information services. The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The TM Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and TM Forum’s Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org   

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