The sixth IMS/NGN Forum interoperability 'plugfest,' and the first to be held since the organizations formerly merged this week, will drill down into the unified communications (UC) space.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is pitched by proponents as a way for carriers to use IP to better integrate voice, data and video applications across wireline and wireless ...

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. reportedly has released new software features on the InterWatch R14 platform, an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem Next-Generation test platform. Release ...

Regarding “NGN: Skeptics view IMS as way for carriers to control users”: These are valid concerns. An IMS that only replicates today’s “Soviet style,” centrally planned services model is ...

IMS, after all, is the IP Multimedia Subsystem protocol that's the foundation of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and NGN is the Next Generation Network that will focus on delivering those converged ...

The ControlSwitch-USC is consistent with 3GPP IMS, TISPAN and MSF standards yet offers the flexibility of supporting multiple generations of application, network, and device specifications that may be ...

NGN and IMS technologies will bring many benefits to mobile operators. IMS in fact is a kind of “holy grail” for communications because operators that deploy it can potentially offer a much ...

Carrier interoperability problems could delay the delivery of new SIP based applications to corporate customers. Multimedia communications services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP ...