IMS Forum Announces Fourth Plugfest

The IMS Forum said Wednesday that its fourth IMS Plugfest will be held Feb. 25 to 29 at the UNH InterOp Lab in New Hampshire.

IMS Forum Plugfests deliver interoperability for revenue generating applications and services. The theme of Plugfest IV is "IMS Triple Play, OSS/BSS and Billing Applications." Results of Plugfest IV will be revealed on March 18 at Spring VON.X 2008 in San Jose, Calf.

"IMS Forum members and Plugfest participants have made a great deal of progress in moving the IMS industry forward in 2007," said Michael Khalilian, chairman and president of the IMS Forum. "The first three IMS Forum Plugfests successfully tested the interface for IMS applications servers and the Diameter protocol and demonstrated for the first time in the industry support of the AKA authentication mechanism in addition to SIP authentication. We look forward to adding billing and OSS/BSS to the mix of a rapidly increasing portfolio of triple play converged services over one single end-to-end network."

Forum members will test the interoperability of IMS applications and operational systems over a unified IMS network. These applications and OSS/BSS and billing services are available to all types of service providers including wireless, wireline and cable companies.

A complete portfolio of services to be tested is still being defined by the IMS Forum Interoperability and Testing Working Group, the forum said. It will include VoIP services for consumer and enterprise users, various types of video services, fixed mobile converged services including support of Femtocell, unified communications (UC) and interworking with IMS and operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS).

Registration for Plugfest IV continues to be available online on the IMS Forum website. The IMS Forum is open to all companies developing solutions for IMS. To date, 12 companies have signed on to participate, including HP, NextPoint Networks and Tekelec.

IMS Forum www.imsforum.org

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