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As ATIS joins forces with the MultiService Forum (News - Alert) (MSF) for the MSF’s biennial Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) event, important IPTV building blocks relating to authentication and initialization will be put to the test. Both companies have announced the new partnership and list of participating vendors for GMI. The event will be held Oct. 20-31, 2008.

 

MSF feels that GMI 2006 proved that IMS architecture was ready for real world deployment. So, GMI 2009 will focus on key emerging services, such as IPTV (News - Alert) and also checks how to effectively leverage this enabling infrastructure. The preliminary list of vendor participants has been announced. The participants include Acme Packet, Codenomicon (News - Alert), Empirix, Huawei, NEC, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Nortel, OSI, Starent, Teles and ZTE.

 

With the MSF’s proven success at validating key Next Generation Network (NGN) concepts, the partnership between ATIS (News - Alert) and the MSF brings together ATIS’s global reach in IPTV standards. The ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) is recognized globally as the leading developer of IPTV requirements, standards, and specifications. This new partnership is expected to validate the IIF’s efforts.

 

“We have been very successful in attracting companies to participate in the ATIS IIF that represent every element of the entire IPTV ecosystem – from the network operator, to the network equipment and set-top box manufacturers, to the middleware solutions provider, and the content providers,” said Susan M. Miller. “Together, we are making enormous strides and delivering standards that will support successful deployment of IPTV and the unique and interactive entertainment experience that IPTV promises to deliver. Participating in GMI 2008 gives us additional ‘real world’ credibility by allowing us to test our work under the most demanding conditions across a global network.”

 

ATIS is the first SDO to formally demonstrate key components of its IPTV architecture at GMI 2008 and is a well-known IPTV standards development organization. ATIS is the first SDO to formally demonstrate key components of its IPTV architecture at GMI 2008. Supported by security and quality metrics, the IIF has developed a fully-open standardized IPTV architecture supported. The company says it’s excited to validate this capability in the truly realistic, end-to-end network deployment scenario provided by GMI 2008.

 

Last month, MSF announced that the carrier, government, and academic laboratories agreeing to host GMI 2008 – Verizon (News - Alert), NCS and UNH-IOL in the US will work with BT/Vodafone in Europe and China Mobile in Asia. This association will create a “real world” global network to verify the interoperability of critical NGN elements in a range of practical scenarios.