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We are pleased to list the following organizations as members of The Quality of Service Task Force. Please refer to the quotes below to find out some of their reasons for joining us.

If you are interested in learning more about joining the QoS Taskforce please contact me -   s.long@opengroup.org.   I am happy to discuss our vision and objectives as well as the benefits and terms associated with membership.

Quotes from some of our Founding Members

 Allot Communication –

“Allot is pleased to join the new Quality of Service Task Force. As a vendor providing Policy-based QoS and SLA management solutions, we see the work of the task force research, definitions and standardization research as extremely important to the evolution of this important area of networking,” said Eric Rosser, President of Allot Communication.

Aurema -

 "Aurema has devoted over 10 years of research into Active Resource Management Technologies in an effort to help users achieve quality of service objectives. The charter membership in the Quality of Service Task Force is our commitment to support a collaborative effort to further improve the interoperability of existing and future QoS solutions," said Kristoph Cichocki-Romanov, Global Product Manager, Aurema

Compaq Computer Corp. –

“Continuing its history of supporting industry standards and The Open Group, Compaq is pleased to be a founding member of the Quality of Service Task Force,” said Kent Ferson, Vice President of the UNIX Systems Business Unit, Compaq Computer Corporation.

Hewlett-Packard, Inc.

"End-to-end Quality of Service to ensure optimal end-user online experiences is a necessity to be successful in e-business today," said Patty Azzarello, Vice President and General Manager of HP Openview. "HP's focus on the total customer experience, backed by Openview  software products and services, is completely aligned with the Open Group's QoS taskforce and the collaborative benefits it will bring to both e-businesses and end users."

MEGAXESS –

"MEGAXESS provides solutions that support end users with a faster, reliable information transport with a differentiated services or QoS assurance for

multi-service applications. It is important for MEGAXESS to define solutions that encompass these ingredients in an integrated fashion, as part of end-to-end Quality of Service assurance to applications," said Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Ph.D.,Chairman & CEO of MEGAXESS

The MITRE Corporation –

“QoS capability is important for mission-critical information systems.  The Open Group QoS Task Force will provide the needed synergy to integrate the considerable QoS technology that has already been developed.  It provides a useful forum for technology providers and users to define workable QoS solutions,” said Paul Denning, Lead Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation.

NeTraverse, Inc. –

“NeTraverse is proud to be a charter member of the Quality of Service Task Force
in The Open Group. This initiative is critical to the strategic objectives of NeTraverse in
pursuing leadership in the delivery and market development of Virtual Desktop
Computing. Enterprises must rely on a standard mature process in the industry
to enable the infrastructure necessary for this new era of enterprise computing.”-  Mark Warring, Chief Architect, NeTraverse
 

NetReality –

"NetReality was founded with one purpose: assuring quality of service and guaranteed delivery times for business-critical applications traversing the network," says Kit Waugh, VP of Marketing and Business Development of NetReality, premier provider of application switching technology. "We call this Network Service Assurance. Through The Open Group, by working together to ensure interoperability, the customer is assured that their growing QoS needs will be met with the best technological solutions: enterprise-class products and carrier-delivered services."

Predictive Systems AG –

“Quality of Service is the major concern for the commercial Internet in the years to come, especially in combination with Mobility,” said Matthias Kraner, from Predictive Systems. “Both are core practice areas of Predictive Systems AG - Deutschland. We are looking forward to participating in the productive and synergetic environment of The Open Group.”

Quarry Technologies –

"Quarry Technologies' mission is to give service providers the platform and essential tools they need to deliver high-quality, secure and predictable IP services over the Internet or any shared IP network, while enabling them to manage their SLAs.  The Open Group's QoS taskforce will be an excellent forum to address key issues in this exciting arena," said Richard Forberg, Vice President of Product Management for Quarry Technologies

Sitara Networks –

"Quality of Service (QoS) has become a must have technology to run today’s operations and e-Business applications. Companies who are not utilizing QoS today are giving away a competitive advantage. This is why Sitara Networks is proud to be a Founding Member of The Open Group's QoS task force." says Mark Strangio, Vice President of Business Development at Sitara Networks.

System/Technology Development Corporation (S/TDC) –

“Increasingly, both commercial and military systems are going to depend on multiple, shared, communications and distributed computing services to support the end to end Quality of Service (QoS) required by their mission critical applications. To provide the end-to-end performance and dependability that those applications require, evolving QoS architectures will have to develop effective means for specifying, monitoring and controlling every critical link in those service chains,” said Dr. Arthur S. Robinson, President, System/Technology Development Corporation (S/TDC)

Teknowledge –

"As the Internet and e-commerce become more important, quality of service and innovative features will be the distinguishing factors in customer interest and loyalty.  Teknowledge's work in leading edge QoS technologies give it the experience base needed to provide forward looking solutions to the Open Group's QoS Task Force and our customers." says Lou Coker, Project Leader, Teknowledge.