Portable Computer and Communications Association (PCCA)
Wireless Mobility has captured the attention and interest of those within these industries, the end-user community, and the press. The vision of untethered, anywhere, any time information access is being espoused by many, implemented by a few. The Portable Computer and Communications Association was founded to provide a forum for disparate industries to meet, learn about each other, and collaborate on the marriage of these industries. The challenges that surround the implementation of true mobility are complex. Without a forum such as the PCCA, the realization of the vision would be delayed.
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The Portable Computer and Communications works to establish wireless standards (the wireless extensions for the Modem AT command set originally came from the PCCA), and works with a sister organization (MCPC) in Japan. Most notably, the day prior to its quarterly meetings it holds interoperability workshops. Quarterly meetings are based on specific themes and industry speakers are invited to explore the topics in detail. Interoperability workshops provide an opportunity for members to gain valuable experience with new networks and to test their products for interoperability. Each workshop focuses on a single network. Interoperability workshops play an important role in identifying complete mobility solutions, which benefits the industry as a whole (e.g., best use of VPNs with wireless networks, latency times and other real-world information.) The benefit of MMF liaison to the PCCA is to extend this primarily supply-side oriented focus to embrace The Open Group constituency of demand-side enterprise members. |
http://www.pcca.org/
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