About the Forum

Today, the dependability of the global communication infrastructure is more important than ever. As new technologies emerge to power new services, users quickly become dependent on those services to conduct their personal and professional lives. With this development, comes the challenge of accommodating growth and emerging technologies while maintaining uninterrupted availability and dependability.

Communications equipment must incorporate the highest possible levels of availability and dependability while balancing the constraints of short development cycles and increasing pressure to reduce development costs. The communications industry recognizes that the most urgent part of an effective solution is the broad adoption of open standards.

The Service Availability Forum™ was formed to improve this situation by developing the missing standard interfaces necessary to enable the delivery of highly available carrier-grade systems with off-the-shelf hardware platforms, middleware and service applications. By standardizing the interfaces for systems requiring to implement high levels of service availability the SA Forum aims to help drive to a new open world for service availability.

The SA Forum is unifying functionality to deliver a consistent set of interfaces, thus enabling consistency for application developers and network architects alike. This means significantly greater reuse and a much quicker turn around for new product introduction.

The Service Availability Forum™ Mission