Empirix (News - Alert) recently put its voice testing and monitoring solutions through the paces at MultiService Forum's (MSF) Global Multi-Vendor Interoperability Event 2008 (GMI 2008).

 

The Massachusetts-based company – which provides its solutions for NEMs, service providers, and enterprises – demonstrated its Hammer G5 to setup and verify IMS call registration scenarios; completed test cases for PSTN to IMS features and convergence using Empirix's Hammer FX-TDM; and completing test cases for IMS broadband access for IMS home and roaming scenarios and network monitoring of Quality of Service using

Hammer G5, Hammer Call Analyzer, and Hammer XMS.

 

Empirix participated in GMI 2008 at two of the five sites -- BT (News - Alert) Advanced Comms Technology Centre, in Ipswich Suffolk, United Kingdom, and Verizon Labs in Waltham, Mass. The company was also on standby to support two other sites -- China Mobile (News - Alert) in Beijing and The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire.

 

The idea behind the event, according to the MSF, was to "demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability for emerging next-generation architectures that deliver converged services across wireless and wireline access networks, from traditional voice services to emerging broadband technologies, such as WiMAX (News - Alert)."

 

"It says a lot about the increasing deployment of NGNs, and the confidence of vendors in their products, that we have had so many members participate in defining six networked test scenarios that address key aspects of the NGN evolution," said Roger Ward, president of MSF.

 

Ward said the event built upon previous GMI Events in 2002, 2004, and 2006, and was developed to provide an opportunity for equipment vendors to validate key service concepts that leverage an IMS/NGN infrastructure.

 

For its part, Empirix says it is continuing with its mission to help enable the adoption of complex new technology waves, such as IMS, through its involvement with the MSF and other major industry forums.

 

"Participating in interoperability events such as the MSF's GMI enables us to take what we learn in the lab back to our customers to ensure their transition to IMS is a smooth one," said Gordon Eddy, senior director, product management at Empirix. "As a company, we've been focusing on the industry's move to IMS for several years and are pleased that the MultiService Forum (News - Alert) continues to host such impactful events that are designed to help make the adoption of this technology smoother."

 

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