IMTC

Real Life Interoperability

Andrea Basso IMTC BoD

basso@research.att.com

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Who Are We?

More than 30 market leaders in unified communication and multimedia content delivery fields

Working together to create interoperable, standard based products

In a Non Profit Organization

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Some of Our Worldwide Members

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Our Mission

To improve customer experience and accelerate market adoption of content delivery and unified communications solutions through interoperability of

products and services based on open standards.

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Facilitate interoperability testing of real-time,

multimedia telecommunication products and

services

Our Goals and Objectives

Develop and advocate requirements to standards-defining organizations

Identify obstacles to growth and success of the industry - recommend and/or implement solutions

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Serve as impartial source of information to

end-users, press, industry analysts,

legislators, and regulators

Our Goals and Objectives

Provide opportunities for industry to meet and exchange ideas

Advocate common industry interests through education and promotion

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Activity Groups

Our main groups:

Telepresence

TIP

Packet Switch Streaming

IMS (VoLTE)

SIP Parity

Conferencing and Telepresence Interoperability

Metadata

3G-324M

Intellectual Property Rights

Marketing

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Why Join?

Shorten timeframe to future success in multimedia communication market

Increase market exposure within the multimedia communication market segment

Gain critical insights into multimedia industry technologies, marketing challenges and business directions

Provide increased compatibility in rich media products, applications and services

Protect end-user capital investments by setting usability expectations

Network and explore opportunities with alliance members and partners

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The IMTC Difference

We bridge the gap between “built to standards” and

“plug and play” by facilitating member product

interoperability events and ongoing discussions that

ensure cross-vendor functionality

We monitor ever-changing technologies, identify gaps in standards and help fill those gaps through contributions and liaison statements submitted to international standardization bodies

What we do today, impacts the future ofmultimedia telecommunications technology

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Liaison with Standards Bodies

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Open Call for Participants

Vendors – come and test your products in real life scenarios, network with industry experts, and influence standards groups

Service Providers – Drive the industry with your needs, and reduce service time to market

Test Equipment Vendors – Showcase products to key test experts and decision makers within your potential customer base.

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Want To Know More?

Visit our site – www.imtc.org

Blog – blog.imtc.org

Email marketing@imtc.org

Or contact :

IMTC Secretary IMTC, Inc.

2400 Camino Ramon, Suite 375

San Ramon, CA 94583

Phone : +1.925.275.6600

Fax : +1.925.275.6691

Email : secretary@imtc.org

IMTC AG IMS (VOLTE) ACTIVITES

Activities 2010• Officials: Tsahi Levent-Levi (co-chair, acting chairman), Bo Jönsson (co-chair)• Mission: Prepare test specification documents and related test events for IMS voice

and SMS services published by GSMA (VoLTE - PRD IR.92)• The IMS AG has been active since 2007, but is from 2010 focused on IR.92 work.• Active companies 2010

– Alcatel-Lucent– AT&T – Ericsson AB– France Telecom– Nokia– Nokia Siemens Networks– Qualcomm– Radvision– Samsung– Sony Ericsson– ST-Ericsson

• Activities– Weekly conference calls– F2F test events

Achievements 2010• Documentation

– Test Cases - IMS Profile for Voice and SMShttp://www.imtc.org/imwp/download.asp?ContentID=19200

• Originating/Terminating Voice call-set up• Supplementary services, e.g.

– Originating identification presentation– Call hold– Conference

– Test Case Plan - IMS Profile for Voice and SMShttp://www.imtc.org/imwp/download.asp?ContentID=19201

• Registration & Authentication• Call establishment and termination• Supplementary services, e.g.

– Barring• SMS over IP• SMS over SGs

• F2F test events done – February 2-4 (Ericsson AB), Stockholm– October 20-22 (Nokia Siemens Networks), Athens

PLAN 2011

• Test documentation further enhanced – Finalize test cases according plan

• F2F event plan to be established – proposal – one event early Q1, SuperOP! – one more event during 2011.

• Increase the number of participating companies in – IMS AG daily work– F2F test events

IMTC and GSMA (DG) Testing

The GSMA Devices Group (DG) test recommendations differs from IMTC Test on:

• The phase within the life cycle of a device in which the tests are executed

• The test coverage itself.

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Test Phase

• GSMA Device Group produces End to End test recommendations to confirm the operation of the terminal within the wider system, under conditions representative of the real-world, viewing the device as a ‘black box’.

• Such tests assume that each part of the terminal has been already validated. The VoLTE client is one part of the overall device. Other parts of the device can be, for example, the 2G/3G & LTE modem, or any application like a Video Player. The IMTC Test Cases focus on this validation.

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Test Coverage

• IMTC covers mostly the following aspects of IR.92: – Chapter 2 (IMS feature set) & Chapter 3 (IMS media)

• Currently do not cover the chapters relative to 3GPP Radio Access Networks & associated bearers’ management: – Chapter 4 (Radio and packet core feature set) &

Annex A (Complementing IMS Voice Service with Circuit Switched Voice Access).

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Test Coverage

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All members currently involved in Voice over LTE are kindly invited to join and participate

in the AG IMS work.

THANKS!

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