Atlanta, GA – November 5th, 2007 - IPgallery, an innovative company in designing, developing, and delivering IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) solutions and advanced multimedia applications, announced today that it has participated in the IMS Forum’s®IMS Plugfest™ III interoperability test event held October 15-19 at Interoperability Lab at UNH. IPgallery tested its Core-Network suite of IMS components and Application Servers delivering premium communications services to residential and business consumers, including FMC, 1Number, Unified communication, IP Centrex and more. This uniquely positions IPgallery as best-of-breed component supplier and end-to-end solution vendor.
“IPgallery’s mission is to allow quadruple play providers an early implementation and effective management of IMS network architectures and enhanced applications,” says Avihai Degani, co-founder and CEO. “IPgallery’s philosophy endorses smooth migration plans to all-IP next generation networks and encourages leveraging existing OSS/BSS systems. Accordingly, IPgallery enables service providers to reduce their CapEx and OpEx costs while generating new revenue streams, thus improving their profit margins from both ends”. Saying this Avihai adds “IPgallery is committed to deliver high-quality standard-based systems and hence strongly values and supports the role of the IMS Forum in accelerating IMS interoperability in the industry.”
The IMS Forum’s IMS Plugfest™ III is the third in a series of events that are designed to foster interoperability and certification for IMS services and applications. IMS Plugfests allow service providers to quickly realize revenue from their IMS investments by significantly reducing the time to market for new services and applications.
“We are pleased to have IPgallery participated in our Plugfest III,” said Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President, IMS Forum. “Their offerings feature a smooth migration plan philosophy and are helping to improve profit margins from both ends, i.e. lowering CapEx / OpEx and generate new revenue streams.”
Plugfest III, “A Network of Services” focused on the realization of applications and services delivered over the IMS and NGN network:
- VoIP, Instant Messaging, and FMC using femto-cells
- Video and Multimedia
- Services for Businesses and Unified Communications
- User and Application Profile Handling
- Security, Reliability and Robustness Testing for IMS Services
- Delivery of IMS Core Services to 2G/3G Mobile Devices
About IPgallery
IPgallery is innovative in designing, developing, and delivering IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) solutions and advanced multimedia applications. IPgallery’s products and solutions alongside with professional services enable telecom service providers to keep ahead of competition continuously and to accelerate their delivery of quadruple-play voice, internet, video and mobile services to enterprise and residential subscribers over any broadband network efficiently.
IPgallery is a diverse team of engineers, experts and visionaries with vast experience in the telecom industry focusing on addressing the marketplace challenges, meeting the service providers’ ever-changing needs and allowing rapid delivery of compelling personalized multimedia convergence experience to residential and enterprise consumers.
For more information please visit, www.IPgallery.com.
About the IMS Forum
The IMS Forum® is a global, non-profit industry association devoted to interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem services delivery architecture and solutions. IMS Forum’s mission is to accelerate the interoperability of IMS revenue-generating services and enabling enterprise and residential consumers to fully benefit from the delivery of multimedia mobile and fixed services over broadband cable, wireless, wireline and fiber networks. The IMS Forum is the creator and organizer of the IMS Plugfest™, the industry’s only event focused on IMS service interoperability verification and certification through the IMS Certified™ program.
Through its organized Plugfests, working group interactions and other activities, forum members are able to develop cost-effective technical frameworks for converged IP services over wireline, cable, 3G, WiFi and WiMAX networks. Plugfest IV is plan for February 25-29, 2007 by the IMS Forum at the UNH Interoperability Lab. For additional information or to join the IMS Forum and the IMS Plugfests, please visit www.IMSForum.org.
For Further Information contact:
Michelle Specktor
IPgallery
Phone: 972-9-774-7011
Email: michelle.specktor@g-ipt.com
Cathy Clarke
IMS Forum PR
Phone: 508-833-8533
Email: PR@IMSForum.org