Who We Are

IMS Forum is a global non-profit industry association dedicated to the advancement of IP Multimedia Subsystem applications and services interoperability. We are a proactive group of industry leaders, experts and visionaries focused on revenue-generating services and best practices for IMS applications convergence. The IMS Forum is the creator and organizer of IMS Plugfest™, the industry’s only event focused on IMS services interoperability verification and certification.

Our Mission

IMS Forum’s mission is to accelerate the interoperability of IMS applications and services, enabling enterprise and residential consumers to quickly benefit from the delivery of quadruple play voice, video, internet and mobile services over broadband via wireless, cable and fixed networks. IMS applications and services comprise enhanced VoIP, IP Centrex / IP PBX and business unified communications including fixed-mobile converged services, videoconferencing and web-collaboration, entertainment including IPTV and gaming, IMS networks include GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, DSL, Cable and Optical.

Members Working Groups

The IMS Forum Technical working groups are involved in the creation of test plans, the execution of the IMS Plugfest™, authoring whitepapers, and developing IMS best practices and guidelines.The Marketing working group plans and participates in IMS Forum’s aggressive outbound marketing activities, consisting of analyst briefings, industry events, press activities, speaking engagements, by-lined articles, case studies and more.

Open Community

A networking group of IMS software and hardware developers, test and system engineers, and business and marketing managers and executives sharing their knowledge and experience.

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