TINA-C stands for

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Information Networking Architecture Consortium. It was an attempt (started in 1992) 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 Andrew James Herbert, OBE, FREng (born 1954) is a British computer scientist, formerly Chairman of Microsoft Research, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Biography Herbert received a bachelor's of science degree in computational ...

(ANSA) standard developed by

Andrew Herbert Andrew James Herbert, OBE, FREng (born 1954) is a British computer scientist, formerly Chairman of Microsoft Research, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Biography Herbert received a bachelor's of science degree in computational ...

. From 1993-1997 TINA specifications where developed by a core team of experts residing in Red Bank,

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. 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.

Member Companies

The following organizations were at one time members of TINA-C: *

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* Bellcore * BT *

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* DEC *

Ericsson (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informat ...

* France Telecom * GPT * HP * IBM * Korea Telecom * KPN * Lucent * Nippon Telegraph and Telephone *

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

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* STL research lab for Nortel Networks * Telefonica * Telecom Italia / CSELT *

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Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

Bibliography

* Appeldorn, Menso, Roberto Kung, and Roberto Saracco. "Tmn+ in= tina." IEEE Communications Magazine 31.3 (1993): 78-85.

External links

TINA-C Official website
Telecommunications organizations