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June 14, 2007
IMS Forum to Judge Awards and Announce Plugfest II Results
By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor
The IMS  Forum, dedicated to the acceleration of IP multimedia subsystem application and service interoperability, has announced that it will exhibit, speak and participate in the judging of the NXTcomm Eos Awards. The IMS Forum intends to hold its members meeting at the Hyatt Regency in McCormick Place in Conference Room CC11A on Monday, the 18 from 1pm–4pm. The group will present the Plugfest II results and other IMS Forum activities.
The Forum has also announced, along with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) that eighteen companies rapidly deployed and debugged a fully functional, end-to-end IMS network running “rich” multimedia applications. Services were tested during Plugfest II and included instant messages, SMS, multimedia messaging (MMS), voice mail, advertising-supported free voice, in addition to fixed-mobile convergence, security and video sharing.
“IMS interoperability is rapidly progressing and the test events are gaining momentum. We have proof now that the test equipment, application servers and other core components are readily available and now we are seeing handsets being added to the Plugfest,” said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL Senior Technologist, in a statement.
“Vendors who had developed applications and services on their own were able to successfully connect to a multi-vendor core IMS network and deploy a range of multimedia applications in less than a week. The participating companies had the opportunity to examine the components in a way that spoke volumes for their present and future work.”
Results of these tests and more will be provided at the IMS Forum booth #3669 on the NXTcomm show floor. Visitors are invited to speak with IMS Forum members who participated in the test event and view a video of the Plugfest II testing. The IMS Forum booth is sponsored by Gold Sponsors ARGELA technologies and Reef Point and Silver Sponsors Mu Security, Starent Networks and Tekelec.
“We invite you to take part in the IMS Forum activities at the NXTcomm show,” said IMS Forum Chairman and President Michael Khalilian, in the company statement. “I would also like to share our findings on the status of IMS interoperability with you. I am also pleased to participate as a Judge once again of the NXTcomm Eos Awards.”
Michael Khalilian, IMS Forum Chairman, will address the following two panels at this year’s show:
- International Engineering Consortium expert panel, C3, “Is It Connected Home... or Connected Services... or Connected Entertainment?” on Monday, June 18th at 2:45 pm.
- IP Video Village Track Session organized by Telecommunications Magazine (News - Alert), “Using IMS to Deliver IP Video across Converged Networks” on Wednesday, June 20th at 11:30 am.
“In the first IMS Plugfest our participants demonstrated that using IMS a service provider could bring online a large best-of-breed central office in eight hours,” said Manuel Vexler, Chair, IMS Forum Technical Working Groups, in the company statement. “In the second Plugfest we showed that IMS can enable a service provider to start offering on-demand, IP multimedia and mobile services in a half week.”
The IMS Forum Plugfest II, open to all companies developing solutions for IMS, doubled the number of participants from the first test event, held in January, 2007 and tripled the number of test cases to 43. Roughly 80 percent of the first Plugfest participants joined the second Plugfest.
Empirix ( News - Alert) and Ixia are among the Platinum Sponsors for the event. Beyond its contribution as a Gold Sponsor, Sonus Networks sponsored a video documentary of the event which will be shown during this week in the IMS Forum and UNK-IOL booths and will subsequently be available on Google ( News - Alert) YouTube.
A cross-section of the IMS industry was represented in the plugfest as the vendors’ list included five application vendors, four test and measurement solutions, nine IMS core vendors, two protocol stacks and several manufacturers of soft phones, handsets and other user equipment. The participating vendors included:
- ARGELA Technologies
- Ixia
- Reef Point Systems
- CopperCom
- LogicaCMG
- Sonus Networks
- Data Connection Ltd
- Mascon Global Ltd
- Starent Networks
- Ditech Networks (News - Alert)
- Mu Security
- Tekelec
- Empirix
- Pico Mobile Networks
- Tektronix (News - Alert)
- Encore Software Ltd.
- Radvision
- Wipro Technologies
The results of the Plugfest and the NXTcomm show should benefit not only the involved vendors, but the industry as a whole as interoperability is gaining traction and is set to open up significant opportunities. Such progress exemplifies the success of the IMS Forum and its contribution to the industry.
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