IMTC: Interoperability, Multimedia and Standards
Sagi Subocki, Head of IMS Segment at Radvision, and Sagee Ben-Zedeff, head of Video solutions, will conduct a VoLTE webinar, at Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT.
Among the webinar topics:
* LTE and IMS market and technology trends
* Challenges in building Next Generation core and endpoint devices
* Unique requirements for VoLTE
* Video and VoLTE
* RADVISION’s LTE solutions
Registration is open at the following link:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/250078702
International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) is pleased to announce that interoperability testing of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) will be one of the key focus areas during their flagship SuperOp! 2011 interoperability testing event in Kona, HI, May 15-20. IMTC’s VoLTE testing will focus on terminals and core network interoperability. IMTC invites all interested parties to participate in this engineering test event.
IMTC has a special area of interest with VoLTE testing. While other organizations may test VoLTE on network interfaces, IMTC has a keen focus for VoLTE testing on terminals and with the core network. This makes the IMTC SuperOp! 2011 testing event unique, and one of the few places to actually accomplish this level of engineer to engineer interoperability testing. A complete network inclusive of LTE access is being hosted by Huawei at the May 2011 SuperOp!, and IMTC is inviting all terminal companies to participate including ST-Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, LG, RIM and others, as well as Operators with interest in VoLTE.
At the June 2010 SuperOp!, participating companies included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, LifeSize Communications, Nextreaming Corp., Nokia, NXP, Orange France Telecom, PacketVideo, Polycom, RADVISION, RealNetworks, TANDBERG Telecom, Vidiator Technology and Vidyo.
Full details including the ‘rules of engagement’ for this engineering only testing event can be found at the link above. This is a closed and confidential interoperability testing event, it is not a public event. Access to IMTC interoperability testing events is available to all IMTC member companies, and invited non-member companies who can contribute to the interop testing activities. IMTC member companies participate in ongoing development of the interoperability testing plans and specifications, organize and conduct face-to-face and virtual interoperability testing events on the regular basis, and provide feedback for improvements to national and international standardization bodies like ITU-T, 3GPP, IETF, GSMA and others.
SuperOp!, organized and conducted by the IMTC annually, is a significant event for the telecommunications, video conferencing and Telepresence sector. It brings together engineers from the leading companies developing unified communications, video communications products and services worldwide. The event includes equipment and service interoperability on combinations of IP networks, and covered a broad range of technologies such as HD Videoconferencing, Telepresence, mobile 3G-324M video, new 3G rate adaptation mechanisms in Packet Switch Streaming, SIP with BFCP and H.323 with H.239, and HTTP Live Streaming features.
About the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC)
The IMTC is an industry-leading, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and facilitate the development and use of interoperable, real-time, multimedia telecommunication products and services based on open international standards. The IMTC hosts interoperability testing events and demonstrations throughout the world. IMTC has hosted more than 50 such events to test SIP, IMS, VoLTE, H.323, 3G-324M, 3G-PSS, Nat/Firewall Traversal, T.120, H .320, and other Voice over IP products and services with each other. The IMTC Board of Directors includes representatives from AT&T, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, LifeSize Communications, Nokia, Polycom, RADVISION and Vidyo. The San Ramon, California-based consortium comprises approximately 40 member organizations from around the globe. Membership is open to any interested party, including vendors of audio, document, and video conferencing hardware and software; academic institutions; government agencies; and non-profit organizations. “The IMTC is making Rich Media happen Anywhere, Anytime.” Further information on IMTC can be found at http://www.imtc.org.
Contact: Anatoli Levine, IMTC President
Paul Ritchie, IMTC Executive Director
2400 Camino Ramon, Suite #375
San Ramon, CA 94583
+1.925.275.6600
IMTC Blog is proud to Interview Frédéric Gabin, Standardization Manager at Ericsson, France and IMTC Board of Directors member:
IMTC Blog: Hello Frédéric, Please Tell us about yourself, your positions in Ericsson and past positions.
Mr.Gabin: My name is Frédéric Gabin, I’m French and I live in Paris, France. My role in the Ericsson standardization organization since 2008 is to lead and coordinate the development of Multimedia standards. I started my career as a signal processing research engineer in 1998 and since then was involved in research, system design and standards with both network and mobile terminal vendors.
IMTC Blog: Why did you volunteered to be an IMTC board member?
Mr.Gabin: The IMTC organization has a strong history of making upcoming key multimedia features a reality without which originating standards would look like mere litterature. The board member position gives a direct ability of steering the organization towards the real needs of my company and the industry. I wanted to be part of this.
IMTC Blog: What are your goals as an IMTC board member ?
Mr.Gabin: My goals are to give existing and future AGs visibility and support in their developments by establishing clear directions in agreement with the key industry players.
IMTC Blog: How does IMTC benefit Ericsson?
Mr.Gabin: IMTC benefits Ericsson as well as ST-Ericsson and Sony-Ericsson in that it gives a framework for terminal interop tests of key multimedia services which speeds up deployments and adoption on the market.
IMTC Blog: In your opinion – What are IMTC greatest achievements? what were 2010 greatest achievements?
Mr.Gabin: IMTC greatest achievements in 2010 were that VoLTE F2F test events started February 2-4 (Ericsson AB), Stockholm and October 20-22 (Nokia Siemens Networks), Athens.
IMTC Blog: What are the major goals for IMTC at 2011? What are the major interoperability issues for 2011 (in Ericsson, in the industry as a whole)?
Mr.Gabin: Firstly, with more and more fragmentation in the various multimedia standards and fast pace deployments, for example in streaming services, one major goal for IMTC is to avoid fragmentation itself and focus on the most relevant standards and services. Secondly, the ongoing deployments of LTE networks around the world should drive a focus on VoLTE terminal interoperability undertaken in the IMS AG . This group should grow by involving more operators and device vendors.
We thank Frédéric for his time and dedication.
As always, If your company does IMS, VoLTE – Join IMTC to help shape the future of Telecommunication Interoperability.
Frédéric Gabin can be reached via E-mail: frederic.gabin@ericsson.com or LinkedIN – http://fr.linkedin.com/in/fredericgabin
Frédéric Gabin, Ericsson
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Inter-operable Indeed!
While video conferencing has started from the ground up as an interoperable solution, telepresence hasn’t. The high end of the high end visual communication systems just don’t play well with the rest of the industry – different products from different vendors can’t really communicate with each other. For a highly expensive system, this limitation of interoperability isn’t a simple one. But now times are changing, and two recent announcements are making it clear that telepresence is becoming interoperable at long last:
1. Cisco, the company pushing telepresence the most, recently released their Telepresence Interoperability Protocol – TIP. Hopefully, this will soon get standardized in the ITU or some other organization.
2. The IMTC just started a new activity group for telepresence.
The focus of these initiatives is making sure that the use of telepresence with multiple monitors (the standard practice these days) will actually work when it comes to interoperability. It requires dialing out calls, coupling media streams and being able to explain and understand the layout of remote room systems and the number of codecs/seats/monitors they have.
So here’s my TIP:
· If you’re interested in telepresence, make sure to join the IMTC’s new activity group.
· If you want to know how telepresence might look in the future – start reading science fiction books.
