News

Publications

Technical Research

Associations

  • International Telecommunication Union - Geneva, Switzerland based organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - Administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system 
  • Standards Committee T1 Telecommunications - Develops technical standards and reports regarding interconnection and interoperability of telecommunications networks.
  • Infiniband  Oregon, USA based trade association with over 100 members supporting the Infiniband networking technology.
  • IETF  A page provided by SimpleWeb including sorted links to the IETF home page, working groups, RFCs and MIBs.
  • ISO/OSI A page provided by SimpleWeb offering links to OSI management standards and certification.
  • ATM Forum An international non-profit organization supporting the use of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) products and services, and promoting industry cooperation and awareness.
  • DMTF  Distributed Management Task Force is an organization leading the development of management standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environments.
  • ISSS   An organization providing standardization-oriented services and products, in order to promote the success of the information society in Europe.
  • TMF   The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a non-profit global organization with over 340 members dedicated to improving the management and operation of information and communications services.
  • Open Group The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium committed to bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology.

Management Platforms

Hardware Vendors – Network Management Products

User Groups by Management Platform

  • HP OpenView - HP's technical support center for OpenView.
  • OpenView Forum International - HP OpenView user's association.  Also administers HP-OV users mailing list.  
  • NCUsers - Veritas NerveCenter user's association.  Provides training resources, a mailing list, and more.
  • NetCoolUsers.org - Micromuse's NetCool user's group.  Provides links to mailing lists, training, downloads and more. 
  • Sniffer User's Forum - Message boards for discussing the Network Associates "Sniffer" product
  • Tivoli - IBM's official support site for all things Tivoli 

Events

  • Catalyst  Annual conference from Burton Group that brings together vendors, analysts, and end-users for informative and thought provoking sessions and discussions.  Held each July in California.
  • Cisco Networkers - Cisco's user conference. Provides technical training for Cisco engineers
  • ComNet Expo - Washington D.C. based trade show focused on networking technologies
  • MPLScon - Focused on the emerging technology of Multiprotocol Label Switching
  • Networld+Interop - Ziff-Davis's series of networking related trade shows
  • Next Generation Networks - Focuses on emerging technologies in communications networks
  • NGN Ventures - Focuses on networking startups and venture capital investing
  • Opticon - focused on technology & business issues related to optical networking
  • SuperComm - Focuses on enterprise and service provider communications
  • http://www.simpleweb.org/contacts/events.html Table of events -- network management