10:00am-10:50am, (Forum Theater SL9008) Wed, June 18th
IMS/NGN Interoperability (Plugfest 5) Result Announcement
The IMS/NGN Forum Plugfest 5 M-Play held in June 2008, address for the first time the certification of the User-to network ‘Gm interface,' the vital link between end-users and service providers. In addition, Plugfest 5 included 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) integration. (http://www.imsplugfest.org/)
Moderator:
NGN & IMS Forums, Michael Khalilian, Chairman & President
Speakers:
HP, Nigel Upton, General Manager, BSS Products
Ixia, Pierre Lynch, Technical Product Manager, VoIP & Wireless Core
Tekelec, Stephen French, Senior Manager, Global Marketing Programs
Wipro Technologies, Ranjith Mukundan, Director
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11:00am-11:50am, (Forum Theater SL9008) Wed, June 18th
IMS/NGN Forum Summit & Plugfest 5
The IMS/NGN Forum presents highlights of discussions and analysis of current trends in IMS/NGN business, technology and services resulting from professional network of 1200 engineers and executives from all segments of Telecommunication industry (Wireline, wireless and Cable). (http://www.imsforum.org/)
Moderator:
IMS Forum, Manuel Vexler, Chair Technical Working Groups
Speakers:
Intel Americas, Ed Dylag , Segment Manager Embedded and Communications Group
Aricent, Prakash Tripathi, Segment Manager - VoIP, IMS
RADVISION, Inc., Anatoli Levine, Director, Product Management - Americas
Ascision, Patrick Laurie, Director
IPgallery, Hila Dahan, AVP Marketing
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2:00pm - 4:00pm (Conf room S208) Wed, June 18th
IMS/NGN Planning Session
Review IMS Technical and Marketing working group's activities to include Certification process. (RSVP to: info@IMSForum.org)
Speakers:
Mu Dynamics, Thomas Maufer, Director, Technical Marketing
NextPoint, Scott Poretsky, Director
IMS/NGN Forum Technical Working Groups (Team Leaders)