ETSI Industry Specification Group will develop requirements and architecture for virtualization of various functions of telecoms networks. Seven of the world's leading telecoms network operators have initiated a new standards group for virtualization of network functions. AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Verizon have been joined by 52 other network operators, telecoms equipment vendors, IT vendors and technology providers to create the ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) for Network Functions Virtualization. The first meeting of this new group took place on 15-17 January 2013 in Sophia Antipolis, France where Dr. Prodip Sen of Verizon Communications was elected to chair the ISG for the first two years, Mr. Uwe Michel of Deutsche Telekom was elected vice-chair for the same period and Mr. Don Clarke of BT was appointed Technical Manager.
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