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Telecommunications Global IMS Forum launched | Global IMS Forum launched |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 23 February 2006 | |
  
Its mission will be to accelerate the adoption of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) by providing an environment for discussion and resolution of real-world implementation issues, such as interoperability and standards-based architectures in the application layer. The Forum will also provide consultancy and expertise to the industry on best practices and approaches for IMS rollouts, interconnectivity and convergence. Chairman and president, Michael Khalilian, said: "With VoIP proliferation continuing at a very aggressive rate, it has become quite clear that we are going through a major transition toward IP multimedia convergence and are witnessing the dawn of a new era of communications driven by bundled services, applications, multimedia content delivery, and telecommunications convergence." Founding members are Alcatel; Aramco Services Company; Brooktrout Technology/Excel Switching; Cisco Systems; Convedia; CopperCom; Cordia Corporation; eLEC Communications /VoX Communications; Kancharla; Lignup Corporation; Newport Networks; NewStep Networks; Sonus Networks; Spirent Communications; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Sylantro Systems; TelKom RisTI; Tekelec; TMC; Trendium; Ubiquity Software; UTStarcom; VoIP; XConnect. More information at http://www.IMSForum.org. |
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