IMS Plugfest 5 to Focus on M-Play Services Interoperability

(Business News & Technology News, 9 May 2008)

The IMS/NGN Forum, the industry association dedicated to interoperability and certification of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Next Generation Networks (NGN) applications and services, has announced that its fifth IMS Plugfest will address for the first time the certification of the User-to-network "Gm interface", the vital link between end-users and service providers

The IMS/NGN Forum plugfest will be held June 2 to 6, 2008, at the University of New Hampshire, InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL) in Durham. In addition, Plugfest 5 will expand the success from previous interoperability events to include policy control, CSCF load balancing and load sharing, charging and billing, test and integration tools, user profiles including authorization credentials, service profiles and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) femtocell integration.

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