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Jan/Feb 2009 | Volume 1/Number 1
From the Desk of Michael Khalilian

NGN Forum™ & IMS Forum® 2009 Plan

By Michael Khalilian

Welcome to our first NGN magazine edition. With the increased competition in voice, entertainment and enterprise markets there is an urgent need for fixed, mobile and cable MSO service providers to partner with application development companies, digital content providers, enterprise and smart phone manufacturers, and financial institutions. As you know, the IMS Forum and the NGN Forum recently announced their partnership to form the NGN Forum™. By combining IMS, SIP, Unified Communications (UC) and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP), our organization unites developers, service providers, integrators and solutions providers to further NGN and IMS deployment. The NGN Forum is a pioneer in developing profitable business models for converged services targeting consumer and enterprise markets.




Our new organization enables our members to fully address the emergence of a single market comprised of information technology (IT), telecommunications, and media sectors that formerly operated in separate markets. The NGN Forum membership includes over 2000 executives, technical and marketing professionals across equipment vendors, solution providers, integrators, service providers, and governmental agencies. In addition, the NGN/IMS Forum also has created the industry’s first joint Venture Capital (VC) study group consisting of its members and over 20 venture capitalists, private equity groups and financial institutions.

The NGN/IMS Forum will continue to help our members to:

• identify new markets and develop executive level contacts with new customers

• reduce time-to-market by shortening integration cycles and test costs

• reduce the costs of technical training

• participate in NGN/IMS Forum open house and round tables in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia

• gain exposure to financial and institutional investors

Our sixth NGN/IMS PlugfestTM will be held January 12-16, 2009 at the InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL). The IMS Plugfests are the industry’s only interoperability events covering NGN services over wireless, wireline and cable broadband. Plugfest 6 will focus on NGN Consumer and Enterprise Service Interoperability. It will test Ready to use IPTV, Diameter, IMS SIP, Security, UC Services and IP B/OSS. Plugfest 6 will continue to address the robustness, reliability and certification of key IMS SIP and Diameter interfaces as well as the following local and visited network services including:

• Inter and intra-domain NGN services routing

• Visited networks scenarios for Consumer and Enterprise customers

• Billing, charging and service creation/SDP for IMS and NGN

• Presence and location based services

• Interfaces operational testing (SIP-Gm, SIP-Mw, SIP-ISC, interface security profiles, Sh-Diameter and Cx-Diameter interfaces)

• Other services including SIP signaling compression and multiple profiles for public and private users

• Services including VoIP for residential and enterprise, Unified Communications, IPTV, FMC and other multimedia applications

NGN/IMS Forum Plugfests provide a hands-on environment to ensure that network operators have reliable, available and secure deployments of IMS architecture and NGN services free of costly downtime. Since 2006 The IMS Forum has pioneered events that allow vendors to gather and rapidly push forward IMS and NGN initiatives that benefit the telecom industry. For more details on press coverage is provided “In the News” visit the Forum news and press section.

We have already begun to plan some exciting activities for 2009 including the following:

• Technical working group papers and other activities for wireless, wireline and cable on:

Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Communications Services; IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Architecture, Framework and Services; IP video / IPTV ; Service Delivery Platform (SDP); IP OSS/BSS (Billing/Charging/Security/Reliability); IMS SIP; Diameter; and Enterprise and Unified Communications (UC).

• Technical and business webinars

• NGN Marketing reports and ROI analyses of NGN/IMS services

• NGN and IMS Plugfests and Certifications

• Service Providers Advisory Board

For online registration and info contact the forum at: [email protected] or visit www.NGNforum.org. For the Forum video interview with TMC (News - Alert) visit: www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=569. NGN/IMS Forum membership and Plugfest participation is open to all companies.

Michael Khalilian is the Chairman and President of the NGN Forum™ & IMS Forum® (www.NGNForum.org, [email protected]).

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