The TINA consortium: toward networking telecommunications information services

The Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) Consortium is a multinational worldwide consortium, which aims at defining and validating an “open” architecture for telecommunications services in the emerging broadband, multimedia and “information super-highway“ era. The architecture is based on distributed computing, object orientation, and other concepts and standards from the telecommunications as well as the computer industry, e.g., ODP, IN, TMN, and CORBA. It is applicable to various networks, broadband (e.g., ATM) or narrowband. A large part of the TINA consortium´s activity is devoted to validating the TINA architecture´s current specifications through auxiliary projects, collaborative worldwide demonstrations, and implementations carried out by the consortium´s core team