MultiService Forum

<p>The MultiService Forum, MSF, originally Multiservice Switching Forum, was a <a href="/facts/Telecommunication/vxoj1cxR">telecommunications</a> <a href="/facts/Industry_association/emPa7AJG">industry association</a> which promoted <a href="/facts/Interoperability/7WgqUbXU">interoperability</a> in the field of <a href="/facts/Next_generation_networking/AS01E5Tg">next generation networking</a> products and services from 1998 to 2013. The open-member organization included equipment vendors such as <a href="/facts/AT%26T/y3Lo9uhk">AT&T</a>, <a href="/facts/Alcatel-Lucent/X0rLGYr7">Alcatel-Lucent</a>, and <a href="/facts/Cisco_Systems/ocDgQt6T">Cisco Systems</a>, fixed and mobile network operators such as <a href="/facts/Verizon/8WkoRAUM">Verizon</a>, <a href="/facts/Nippon_Telegraph_and_Telephone/a3gI457X">NTT</a>, <a href="/facts/BT_Group/RV9sGpcD">BT</a> and <a href="/facts/Vodafone/kjCgcHma">Vodafone</a>, and others.  MSF produced <i>Implementation Agreements</i>, which specify the implementation of communication technologies, or their configuration for achieving interoperation.
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