INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION STUDY GROUP 15 TELECOMMUNICATION TD 107 Rev.2(PLEN/15) STANDARDIZATION SECTOR STUDY PERIOD 2013-2016 English only Original: English Question(s): 3/15 1-12 July 2013 TD Source: Rapporteur Q3/15 Title: Draft Revised Optical Transport Networks & Technologies Standardization Work Plan, Issue 17 This TD includes the draft of Revised Optical Transport Networks & Technologies Standardization Work Plan, Issue 17. Contact: Yoshinori Koike Tel: +81-422-59-6723 NTT Corporation Fax: +81-422-59-3493 Japan Email:
[email protected] Attention: This is not a publication made available to the public, but an internal ITU-T Document intended only for use by the Member States of ITU, by ITU-T Sector Members and Associates, and their respective staff and collaborators in their ITU related work. It shall not be made available to, and used by, any other persons or entities without the prior written consent of ITU-T. - 2 - TD 107 (PLEN/15) Optical Transport Networks & Technologies Standardization Work Plan Issue 167, September July 20123 1. General Optical and other Transport Networks & Technologies Standardization Work Plan is a living document. It may be updated even between meetings. The latest version can be found at the following URL. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com15/otn/ Proposed modifications and comments should be sent to: Yoshinori Koike
[email protected] Tel. +81 422 59 6723 2. Introduction Today's global communications world has many different definitions for Optical and other Transport networks and many different technologies that support them. This has resulted in a number of different Study Groups within the ITU-T, e.g.