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Fiber Optic Association Inc. |
International non-profit professional society for the fiber optic industry. Its tasks have included developing and administering a training curriculum and certification program, participating in standards activities and becoming involved in other programs to promote fiber optics as the organization grows and evolves. |
Membership costs $50 a year, $20 a year for students. Certification costs $95 and is valid for two years. Membership in the association is required for the certification process. There are individual memberships, not corporate memberships. However, almost every manufacturer of fiber optic products has expressed an interest in supporting the association by recognizing the certification process and including its hands-on programs in the certification program. |
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Fiber-to-the-Home Council |
Non-profit organization with a mission to educate, promote and accelerate FTTH and the resulting quality-of-life enhancements. |
Comprising telecommunications, computing, networking, applications and content and service provider companies. Dues for Platinum members are $6,000, Gold $3,000 and Silver $1,000. |
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International Society for Optical Engineering |
International organization that addresses virtually all subfields associated with optic and photonic technologies and their many engineering, scientific, and commercial applications. |
Composed of individual technical professionals and about 350 corporate members. To qualify for membership, a person or company should be engaged in research, development, manufacture, management, or sale of optics, photonics, or optoelectronics technology, or of products and systems incorporating such technology. |
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Metro Ethernet Forum |
To accelerate the adoption of optical Ethernet technology in metro networks around the world, including being the driver behind implementation of existing and new technologies and standards that enable end-to-end Ethernet service creation and optimize the operation, administration and management of Ethernet in metro networks. |
Approximately 40 members, including vendors such as Cisco Systems and Nortel; incumbent carriers like SBC Communications and BellSouth; and newer Ethernet service providers Telseon and Yipes Communications. Membership fees are $15,000 a year. |
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Optical Domain Service Interconnect |
Launched January 2000, this informal initiative has moved quickly to develop an important industry proposal for an open interface to the optical switched network. The ODSI functional specification defines the mechanism that will allow electrical layer devices to automatically signal the optical network to establish high-speed bandwidth on-demand. With interoperability testing completed, the ODSI coalition will continue with its original objective of promoting this proposal to formal standards organizations, thus accelerating progress toward an open, well-defined interface. |
About 100 service providers and equipment vendors. |
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Optical Internetworking Forum |
To foster the development and deployment of interoperable products and services for data switching and routing using optical networking technologies. |
Open industry organization of equipment manufacturers, telecom service providers and end users. Dues range from $3,000 to $8,000 a year. |
www.oiforum.com 39355 California St. Suite 307 Fremont, CA 94538 (510) 608.5928 Fax: (510) 608.5917 info@oiforum.com |
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Optical Society of America |
Organized to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied; to promote the common interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers, and of users of optical apparatus of all kinds; and to encourage cooperation among them. |
About 12,000 scientists, engineers, and technicians working in optics or a related field, students and corporations. Corporate memberships range from $500 to $2,500 a year, while individual memberships range from $25 to $45 a year. |
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Resilient Packet Ring Alliance |
To promote standards based resilient packet ring (RPR) technology and to encourage the utilization and implementation of RPR as a key networking technology for connectivity of various computing, data and telecommunications devices. The RPR Alliance hopes to nurture and help develop a broad market by promoting the proliferation of RPR into the networking market broadly defined including LANs, MANs, and WANs. It is also committed to promoting multi-vendor interoperability. |
Made up of equipment manufacturers. Two classes of membership are available: Principal member, for which dues are $25,000 a year; and Participating member, for dues of $10,000 a year. |
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