Network Test Automation Forum
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NTAF represents any organization/individual interested in testing network devices, architectures or application performance.
Service Providers, End users
Network Element Manufacturers
Test Equipment Manufacturers
Automation Solutions Vendors
Promote the interoperability of commercial testing tools and test infrastructure for the data communications and telecommunications industry.
Mission Statement:
What/Who does NTAF represent?
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NTAF Members
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Governed by members
• Define interoperability standards for the Network Testing Industry
• Any member can submit ideas for consideration• NTAF members will review the submissions and craft
standards based on the NTAF bylaws and operating procedures
• Published standards will be made available to interested parties
Robert Ormsby, Verizon (NTAF President)Todd Law, Spirent Communications (NTAF Vice President)Jitin Dhanani, Ixia Communications (NTAF Treasurer)Bruno Giguère, EXFO (NTAF Secretary)
Kris Raney, BreakingPointSteve Thomas, BTKaushal Agrawal, CiscoGordon Eddy, EmpirixJames Murray, EricssonLars Friedrich, JDSU
Members
Current Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Technical Committee
Marketing Committee
Officers:
Members:
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NTAF Governance
Create technical standards that are freely available
Encourage participation and promotion of the standards
Provide interpretation of these standards
Enable compliance certification with these standards
Ensure a “level playing field” for all members
Provide transparency to all members
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NTAF Guiding Principles
NTAF’s success is based on Compliance
NTAF addresses both wire line and wireless networks
Engage with existing standard bodies to leverage their work and identify “gaps” vs. re-working existing standards
Introduce a common set of test suites that demonstrate NTAF compliance certification
Create a Compliance Working Group (CWG) to further define and refine interoperability testing issues
CWG will be a subset of the Technical Committee
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What’s the Challenge?
As new services are required a typical lab continues to expand in terms of networking equipment and equally the number of testing solutions required to test these new devices and services.
Increased pressures to get devices/networks/services to the market place as quickly as possible
The majority of test solutions available are unique
No standard for interoperability
NTAF aims to standardize
Interoperability
Test Integration and Automation
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Present Day Lab Management
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NTAF Focus
Interoperability
Integration
Automation
Evolution of the NTAF Entity.
Technical Goal:
NTAF Technical Introduction
First Face-to-Face meetingMontreal, Canada, April 2010
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Introducing the Technical Committee
• Define interoperability standards for the Network Testing Industry
• Any member can submit ideas for consideration• NTAF members will review the submissions and craft
standards based on the NTAF bylaws and operating procedures
• Published standards will be made available to interested parties
Board of Directors
Technical Committee
Marketing Committee
The Technical Committee has the responsibility of defining the content of the NTAF technical specifications.
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NTAF Reference Model
NTAF Entity
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Key Decisions of the Montreal Meeting
Adopt XMPP as the core protocol for communication between NTAF entities.
NTAF Entity Minimum Requirements
XMPP
Sends/Receives msgs using the NTAF schema
Supports the standard Request/Response model
Standard error handling
Simplified Entity Model, Interfaces refined down to:
Activation
Discovery/capabilities
Actions (requests)
Notifications
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Introducing the Marketing Committee
• Define interoperability standards for the Network Testing Industry
• Any member can submit ideas for consideration• NTAF members will review the submissions and craft
standards based on the NTAF bylaws and operating procedures
• Published standards will be made available to interested parties
Board of Directors
Technical Committee
Marketing Committee
The Marketing Committee promotes awareness of NTAF, its members and facilitates industry adoption of NTAF specifications NTAF as an organization, promote its members and their contributions to the Network Test Automation community and to facilitate the industry adoption of NTAF specifications.
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Marketing Activities
The Marketing Committee advances industry awareness of NTAF and adoption of NTAF specifications by employing these channels to reach members and the industry:
Test Reports
White Papers
Webinars
Blog
Linked-in Group
Newsletter
Press Briefings
Become a member today!
We encourage you to join us for what will prove to be an exciting and rewarding journey.
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NTAF – Service Provider benefits
As a Service Provider or End-user of network test automation, NTAF provides you with:
The opportunity to help create test and automation specifications that will be widely adopted by test and automation vendors, enabling you to cut down on test and test setup time and get your products/services to market faster.
The chance to voice your test and automation requirements to the industry in an open and transparent forum.
The opportunity to meet with your suppliers and competitors in an open environment to share ideas, best practices and requirements.
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As a Network Equipment Manufacturer, NTAF provides you with:
The opportunity to help create test and automation specifications that will be widely adopted by test and automation vendors.
Enable you to cut down on test, development, and test setup time.
Products to market faster, with decreased QA times.
The chance to voice your requirements to the vendors of the test and automation industry in an open forum.
The opportunity to meet with your suppliers and competitors in an open environment to share ideas, best practices and requirements.
NTAF – Network Equipment Manufacturer benefits
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As a Test Equipment and Automation Vendor, NTAF provides you with:
The chance to participate in, and contribute to, a standards-setting organization. Help create and implement accepted specifications and leverage best-in-class complementary solutions with minimum engineering effort.
The opportunity to meet your customers (i.e. Service Providers, End-users and Network Equipment Manufacturers) in an environment were you can demonstrate the true innovativeness of your company.
The ability to promote interoperability standards in the test community. Enable users of test and automation products (your customers) to benefit from your ideas and cut down on test infrastructure development time in order to bring products to market faster.
NTAF – Test Equipment and Automation Vendor benefits
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Thank you!
For further information and membership queries please visit website (http://www.ntaforum.org) or send email: [email protected]
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