Friday, April 5, 2013

T&M Industry in India : FY14 can be the year of Interface/Interoperability Testing ?


IDEA  OF ENSURING AUTHENTIC  INTERFACE / INTEROPERABILITY  TESTING

The Big Picture objectives of  our T&M Industry is primarily  to help create the Ecosystems where the QUALTY , PRODUCTIVITY', CONFORMANCE  and PERFORMANCE  aspects of the User industry can be improved and assured. Such an entity or an organisation has to be created in India either through Regulatory Framework in different sectors or can be developed to augment so that an existing setup can go up to highest level of Credibility and Reference. Since T&M industry serves many sectors of our Economy it is important we prioritise, and focus on those sectors with immediate and high impact on Society and Consumer protection. In this blog posting I will Cover Telecom related needs of such an organisation.

Most of the T&M techniques and Quality in Data and Voice Networks is done through test and measurement of Electronics Equipment.The Test & Management of the Networks Interfaces and Interoperability is realised by the Collaborative efforts of Industry , Test Labs and Staff , Global Standards Organisation and National Governments adhering to agreed norms for that sector.While we have these organisations in some fragmented form,and bits and pieces in Telecom we  the Integrated approach hasnt been tried successfully.

In this blog we will bring out the key objectives of such an organisation,so that it is Vendor Neutral,Technology Current, on par with Indian and Global Standards of Performance & Conformance ,Academia  and Regulator. Industry Users, the Standards Body and other stakeholders
will be part of this organisation. Organisationally it had to be autonomous in its working and can be a Society on the lines of CDoT  or some variant. It will have its own Board to manage and direct its activities and draw people from Technology Industry, Administrative background and Legal and Corporate  Law expertise.

Such an organisation will have other components to it,and we will discuss these in some subsequent blogs.However one thing is clear that such an organisation is overdue and FY14 could be and should be the year of its Logical Founding & implementation.


 

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