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MU SECURITY TO ADVANCE IMS ROBUSTNESS BY PARTICIPATING IN IMS FORUM PLUGFEST III INTEROPERABILITY EVENT
Sunnyvale, CA - October 11, 2007 - Mu Security, a pioneer in the security analyzer market, today announced that it will participate in the IMS Forum's IMS PlugfestTM III interoperability test event to be held October 15-19 at the IMS Interoperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Mu Security will analyze SIP and IMS messages for protocol implementation flaws within all available products present at the event.
The IMS Forum Plugfests bring together a critical mass of IMS vendors to prove out end-to-end IMS solutions in a vendor-neutral lab environment. Vendors that participate in these Plugfests get to discover and validate implementation scenarios before their products are deployed in the field.
Mu Security's Mu-4000 platform incorporates a mature SIP negative testing or "stateful fuzzing" implementation with IMS extensions, and is able to statefully examine the complex interactions that are required to set up, maintain, and tear down a call. All devices and roles within an IMS network have to process certain types of SIP messages, and must be prepared to "expect the unexpected" due to the rapid evolution of these standards, and the wide variety of quality of implementations with which they must communicate. The Mu-4000 excels at generating unexpected traffic that is designed to statefully destabilize real implementations of these complex protocols, and integrates these test cases into a "lights-out" automation framework.
"The testing that Mu Security performs is specifically designed to expose IMS implementation weaknesses in ways that positive interoperability testing alone cannot, thereby strengthening IMS revenue generating services for carriers worldwide," said Kishore Seshadri, vice president of product management at Mu Security. "The end result is vendors can confidently represent to service providers that the Plugfest-tested products are very robust."
The IMS Forum's IMS PlugfestTM III fosters 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.
Plugfest III, "A Network of Services," will be focusing on the realization of applications and services delivered over the IMS and NGN networks. Services to be tested include:
- Security, Reliability and Robustness Testing for IMS Services
- VoIP, Instant Messaging, and FMC
- Video and Multimedia
- Services for Businesses and Unified Communications
- User and Application Profile Handling
About the IMS Forum
The IMS Forum® is a global, non-profit industry association devoted to interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystems services and solutions. 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 cable, wireless and fixed networks. The IMS Forum is the creator and organizer of the IMS PlugfestTM, the industry's only event focused on IMS services interoperability verification and certification.
Through its organized Plugfests, working group interaction, 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 III will be held October 15-19, 2007 by the IMS Forum at the UNH Interoperability Lab. An IMS Open House open to the public will be held on Oct 18 at 1pm. at the same location. For additional information or to join the IMS Forum and the IMS Plugfests, please visit http://www.imsforum.org/.