TINA-C
TINA-C stands for Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture Consortium. It was an attempt by several actors in the telecommunication world to define, design and realize a software architecture for the telecommunication infrastructure. The consortium has defined a number of specifications and has organized several experiments and demos.
TINA-C is partly based on the Advanced Networked Systems Architecture standard developed by Andrew Herbert.
From 1993-1997 TINA specifications where developed by a core team of experts residing in Red Bank, New Jersey. Core team members were employees of the member companies assigned to work for the consortium. From 1998-2000 the consortium consisted of a Technical Architecture Board that met frequently, with work being conducted in several working groups.
The consortium disbanded in 2000.The following organizations were at one time members of TINA-C:
- Alcatel
- AT&T
- Bellcore
- BT
- Deutsche Telekom
- France Telecom
- Korea Telecom
- KPN
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
- Siemens
- SPRINT
- Telefonica
- Telecom Italia / CSELT
- Telstra
- Telenor
- Alcatel
- Ericsson
- Lucent
- DEC
- HP
- IBM