Business: Consortia

• Andrew Consortium Home Page
• Cable Television Laboratories(3) - Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) was established in May 1988 as a research and development consortium of cable television system operators. CableLabs plans and funds research and development projects that will help cable companies take advantage of future opportunities and meet future challenges in the television industry. It also transfers relevant technologies to member companies and to the industry. In addition, CableLabs acts as a clearinghouse to provide information on current and prospective technological developments that are of interest to the cable industry.
• CAD Framework Initiative, Inc. - CFI, Inc. is an international, not-for-profit consortium of CAD (Computer Aided Design) tool users, tool vendors, and research institutions. Since 1988, CFI's mission is to provide industry-accepted standards and technology that enable interoperability of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and data for end-users and suppliers worldwide.
• Center for the Application of Information Technology - a non-profit consortium, providing leading edge training and leadership programs for Information Systems Professionals.
• CIESIN - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network(6)
• Consortium for School Networking - Through computer networking, the Consortium will help educators and students access information and communications resources that will increase their productivity, professional competence, and opportunities for learning and collaborative work.
• Financial Services Technology Consortium - The FSTC is a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies whose goal is to enhance the competitiveness of the United States financial services industry. A non-profit organization, FSTC sponsors non-competitive collaborative research and development on interbank technical projects affecting the entire financial services industry - with particular emphasis on projects involving the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (HPPCI).
• ISODE Consortium - ISODE Consortium delivers core Messaging and Directory technology source code to its members, some of Established as an independent, self-financing, not-for-profit organization, ISODE Consortium is a combination software house and membership association dedicated to the ongoing evolution, deployment, support and promotion of products derived from the ISODE(tm) package - the world's most widely deployed open Messaging (X.400/SMTP) and Directory (X.500) product set.
• MAGIC - Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium(3)
• Management Integration Consortium - The goal of the Management Integration Consortium is to provide an open organization in which management platform vendors, management application vendors, and users can cooperate to leverage existing integration capabilities, and to develop new integration technologies. The consortium primarily is a working forum to hash out the real life issues of integration between management products. The consortium also expects to draft documents, based on the successful efforts of consortium members, intended to represent de facto standards. Over time, these standards will provide a conformance baseline against which users can evaluate products for their integration capabilities.
• MECCA - Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• MFJ Task Force(2)
• Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) - a for-profit R&D consortium specializing in the areas of Information Technologies & Services and High Value Electronics as applied to a wide range of applications.
• National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (NIIIP)(2)
• OSF - Open Software Foundation(8)
• Science and Engineering Television Network - a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television
• The AstroWeb Consortium
• The ATM Forum - The ATM Forum is a worldwide organization, aimed at promoting ATM within the industry and the end user community.
• X Consortium(3)