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TMCNet: NGN Forum and IMS Forum Announces Plugfest 8 Results at Supercomm

[October 21, 2009]

NGN Forum and IMS Forum Announces Plugfest 8 Results at Supercomm

(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CHICAGO, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/21/09 -- The NGN IMS Forum(TM) announced at Supercomm today that it will present the results today from its eighth NGN IMS Plugfest?. This IMS/NGN interoperability event which was held at the UNH InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL) in Durham, NH was completed on October 9th.


Plugfest 8 focused on Interoperability for voice and multimedia applications, BSS/OSS and Security, inter and intra network. The Forum also announced that it will hold its Member/Working Groups Meeting today at Supercomm from 12:30pm-1:005pm at the Exploration Theater on the Show Floor. This meeting is open to the public.

"The NGN IMS Forum Plugfests are the industry's only interoperability events covering converged IMS and NGN services over wireless, wireline and cable broadband," said Michael Khalilian, Chairman & President, NGN IMS Forum. "Our model for inter-domain testing launched at the beginning of this year is now being used industry-wide. Our methodology also allows our forum to complete two to three events a year and involve the largest cross-section of the IMS and NGN industry. Our members have pioneered the industry leading methodology for NGN/IMS interoperability testing used now as the industry best practice." Plugfest 8 Results will be presented at the Exploration Theater on the Supercomm show floor on Wed Oct 21 from 4:15pm-5:00 pm. Plugfest 8 participants will discuss the accomplishments of Plugfest 8 and the planning of Plugfest 9 and Plugfest 10 events for next year.

This session will address the technical and business aspects of multimedia, all-IP services. It will cover all types of interfaces used in IMS, NGN, LTE and WiMAX control and management, real time charging, network operations (OSS/BSS) and integration with NGN applications and services.

The session will address the needs of service providers, Diameter protocol stack vendors, users, and equipment vendors delivering NGN functional elements such as Call Session Control, Home Subscriber Servers, Charging, Policy Management, and Security. They will also discuss -- testing for roaming and visiting subscribers.

Plugfest 8 participants included: Comverse, HP, Marben Products, Mu Dynamics, NTT-AT, Radvision, Sonus, Tekelec, Tektronix, Testing Technologies GmbH, US Government Communications, Japan NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), among others.

The NGN IMS Forum hopes to see you at the following Supercomm Sessions that the Forum will be participating in: -- Weds. Oct 21 at 12:30pm-1:05pm - NGN IMS Forum Working Group Leadership Meeting, open to the public -- Location: Exploration Theater on the Show floor -- Weds., Oct. 21 at 4:15pm-5:00 pm - NGN IMS Forum Panel session on Plugfest 8 Results -- Location: Exploration Theater on the Show floor -- Thursday Oct. 22 at 11 AM - Telecom Goes Hollywood - Networks for the Digital Age -- Friday Oct. 23 at 11 AM. - Panel Session: No Strings Attached - Wireless Networking Growth & Challenges Michael Khalilian, Chairman & President of the NGN IMS Forum, will once again serve as a Judge of the Supercomm EOS Awards.

About the NGN Forum? and IMS Forum® The NGN/IMS Forum is the only global telecommunications association devoted to Next Generation Network (NGN) service delivery and interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services architectures and solutions.

The Forum's mission is to accelerate the interoperability of IMS and NGN services and to enable enterprise and residential consumers to benefit fully from the delivery of M-play?: rich multimedia, mobility and fixed services over wireline, cable, GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE and fiber broadband networks. The Forum is the creator and organizer of the IMS Plugfests? and NGN Plugfests?, the industry's only events focused on verification and certification of IMS and NGN service interoperability through the IMS Certified? and NGN Certified? programs.

Through organized Plugfests, technical working groups and other activities, Forum members develop cost-effective technical frameworks for revenue generating converged IP NGN solutions. The combined organizations include over 2000 executives and technical, business development and marketing professionals from global and emerging equipment vendors, solution providers, integrators, service providers, and governmental agencies. For additional information or to join the NGN Forum, the IMS Plugfest, and/or the NGN Plugfest, please visit www.IMSforum.org or www.NGNforum.org.

For Further Information contact: NGN IMS Forum Media Relations Cathy Clarke CNC Associates +1 (508) 833-8533 pr@imsforum.org

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