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Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI ) develops consensus standards
that serve the needs of industry, government, and the professions, and
advance quality in health care worldwide. PARIS, Alcatel
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CLSI's unique cross-cultural consensus process maximizes available
resources in addressing standardization issues, promotes new
cooperative ventures, and inherently ensures that CLSI products meet
the diverse needs of the global medical community.

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By removing
"national" from its name, CLSI renews what has already been a
longstanding commitment to international cooperation and
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ITU-T on VDSL2 as a next generation of the VDSL (Very high speed DSL)
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ADSL2plus: extension of ADSL2 with double bandwidth (ITU-T G." For more
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VDSL: Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line (ITU -T G.

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Through the work of our
volunteer experts, our organization develops and harmonizes standards
that respond to the specific needs of medical communities around the
world. Seven percent
of CLSI's 180 active member organizations, and nearly one quarter of
its 1500 corresponding and associate active members, are from outside
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Alcatel Applauds the ITU-T Consent on VDSL2 Standardization

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The early standardization is key for the success of
the worldwide triple play deployments ongoing today.

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The VDSL2 standard, which is known as G.992.

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WAYNE, Pa. As CLSI's membership base grows, the organization continues
to develop its global presence in the healthcare community.992. The results
of these studies are published as "ITU-T Recommendations.phtml .

About Alcatel
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers,
Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and
video applications to their customers or employees.

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Membership is open
to any organization regardless of geographic location. VDSL2 is suited for deployment from the
central office, remote fiber fed locations (Fiber to the Node -- FTTN) and
within buildings (Fiber to the Premise -- FTTP ) for universal service offering
in harmony with the installed base of DSL, including ADSL2 and ADSL2plus .

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ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ITU-T G. Alcatel brings its
leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and
services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband
world.3 billion in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than
130 countries.

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By integrating a number of strategies into its global
organization , CLSI makes the notion of cooperation and harmonization
throughout the global healthcare field a reality.
CLSI's organizational objective is to promote quality and best
practices for laboratories and healthcare services. Having freshly established its global identity, CLSI
looks forward to new opportunities to develop and disseminate high
quality resources, products, and services more effectively around the
world in the years to come."
In the summer, Alcatel will start shipping VDSL2 ready equipment to
Swisscom for central office and remote deployment from the Alcatel 7302 ISAM
product family.1)
ADSL2: newer generation of ADSL (ITU-T G.1)
VDSL2: next generation of VDSL (ITU-T G.

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Healthcare professionals around the world rely on CLSI's best
practices to carry out their responsibilities with efficiency,
effectiveness, and the reassurance of global acceptance.

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ITU: International Telecommunication Union

About ITU
The ITU is a world -wide organization where 189 Member States and
660 Sector members representing public and private companies and organizations
cooperate for the development of telecommunications and the harmonization of
national telecommunication policies.

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By evolving from the National
Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) into Clinical and
Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI has adopted an organizational
name which better reflects not only its worldwide membership base, but
also its true strengths and the scope of its work.2, contains a range of
profiles for service offerings defining speeds up to 100 Mbit/s (both up and
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As the standardization arm of the ITU,
the main responsibility of the ITU-T, recognized as the pre-eminent worldwide
telecommunication standards body, is to provide global telecommunication
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Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute: Integrating a Global Perspective

VDSL2 offers improved performance
and reach, enhanced tools for spectrum compatibility with the ADSL and
ADSL2plus standards, improved management and loop diagnostic capabilities that
facilitate operations and troubleshooting, and better robustness against a
variety of noise interference sources to support high quality triple play
services.
"Since the initial phase, Alcatel has been very active in the definition,
standardization, development and promotion of VDSL2," said Michel Rahier, in
charge of Alcatel's fixed communications activities.

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CLSI embodies
a vast international network of organizational partnerships designed
to cultivate harmonized global standards. The consensus documents it
produces are purchased and used in over 77 countries around the world.

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S. "We have worked closely
with operators and other key players in defining VDSL2 to meet deployment and
service requirements, and are convinced this unified standard will further
boost broadband services.993.

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Recent efforts to
inject this overarching goal with a global perspective include:

-- Revision of the CLSI Quality Management Systems documents: A
Quality Management System Model for Health Care (HS1-A2);
Application of a Quality Management System Model for
Laboratory Services (GP26-A3); and Continuous Quality
Improvement: Integrating Five Key Quality System Components
(GP22-A2) to be harmonized with ISO 15189 Medical laboratories
- Particular requirements for quality and competence, ISO/IEC
17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and
calibration laboratories, and other identified standards

Active recruitment and appointment of global participants on
standards-developing committees

Identification and cataloging of International Organization
for Standardization (ISO) and other international standards on
a cross-reference matrix, to serve as a resource for CLSI
subcommittees in harmonizing terminology and methodology

Implementation of processes to update and expand the
Harmonized Terminology Database to be in parallel with the
ISO, European Committee for Standardization (CEN), and
CLSI/NCCLS documents

Effective management of the ISO/TC 212 consensus process

Formation of a Task Group on Resource-Limited Laboratories
with defined goals to: simplify relevant CLSI documents;
develop basic work instruction documents; develop educational
programs to accompany the documents; and partner with
organizations and donor agencies

Designation of a specific representative to identify
harmonization issues during document development

This is just a sampling of the broad array of global program
initiatives underway to diversify input and reduce barriers in the
development of CLSI's global standards.