3rd International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2007

 

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4th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2008
5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009

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1st FOKUS IMS Workshop 2004
2nd International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2006

FOKUS in cooperation with the Chair for Next Generation Networks (AV) at the Technische Universität Berlin organizes the 3rd International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2007 “IMS Deployment reviewed in Face of Triple Play, IPTV, SOA and Web 2.0” Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Berlin, Germany November 15-16, 2007

 

About FOKUS and this Workshop Series

The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (Research Center for Open Communication Systems in Germany) is an independent research organization performing since more than 18 years with 220 international scientists applied research in the converging fields of internet, telecommunications, entertainment and information technologies. Basis for the many industry sponsored research and development projects, mainly performing new concept and architecture and protocol developments, as well as concept prototyping proof are so called technology testbeds. One of these is the Open IMS Playground, a global pioneering IMS testbed established in the year 2004 and the new FOKUS Open SOA Telco Playground, focusing on Next Generation Network and Future Internet Applications based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) principles.

This is the third of a series of FOKUS IMS events. Whereas the first one in 2004 was devoted to the official opening of the FOKUS Open IMS Playground, the last workshop in November 2006 has been used to make publicly available the core of this NGN testbed, namely the Open Source IMS Core System (OSIMS). Since then this enabling software for NGN and IMS testbeds has been downloaded many thousands times from various operators, vendors, integrators, and academic institutions around the globe. We are proud to state, that a global and vivid OSIMS and IMS testbed community has been established since then.

Based on our presence of most of the international IMS events and the intense discussions at these events and with our customers, we know that nevertheless some key challenges for successful IMS deployment have to be still mastered. Thus we shaped this year's event around these issues.

About this Year's Event

The many questions around IMS are no doubt primarily based on the inherent complexity of a converging network world, the emerging role of open service delivery platforms and the uncertainty about future business models and value chains. Therefore we want to discuss at our upcoming IMS event the following questions:

• what has operators family driven to deploy IMS regardless the many uncertainties about the business case;
• how many standards must an IMS system support, and how these are exploited for emerging Triple Play and IPTV service offers;
• how does an IMS integrate with service delivery platforms and how will such an environment be controlled and managed and most importantly how does IMS relate to SOA and Web 2.0 principles; and finally
• what are the future directions in IMS developments and what role will IMS and related testbeds play  in face of the next generation internet research activities?

Based on the many positive comments about last year’s event, we want to maintain the basic size and structure of this event to maintain the appreciated ”open  family atmosphere” and stimulate the discussions among the participants.

Two morning tutorials about the IMS Basics and Standards as well the Open Source IMS Core System will enable newcomers to the topic and our family to get up to speed and prepared for the remaining workshop.

We slightly changed the first day afternoon setup, which now features four parallel interactive workshops, which will feature 2-3 stimulus presentations and then allow the participants to present their ideas and to start a vivid discussion about the specific subject matters.

Again we will prepare an interesting evening event which allows to continue the potentially hot debates of the afternoon in a more relaxed atmosphere.

The following conference day will address the workshop topics from an industry perspective, where mainly operators are presenting their views in presentations, and vendors will add their views in corresponding session panels.

Alongside the workshops and the conference we will have again a vendor exhibition showing the state of the art of IMS technology, as well as demonstrations of new IMS based applications within the FOKUS IMS Playground, such as OSIMS based IPTV and Triple Play service as well as the eGovernment ServiceLine 115 multimedia call center.

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