5th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2009

This series of FOKUS IMS events will be continued in 2009!

This is the fifth of a series of FOKUS events around innovative multimedia services and related enabling technologies and protocols in the field of Next Generation Networks (NGNs), Next Generation Mobile Networks, and the Future Internet (FI). Although the name of the event still features the term IP Multimedia System (IMS), the event has over the last year tremendously extended its scope, as also the scope of IMS and related technologies has extended in view of progressing convergence of networks and services.

Whereas the first workshop in 2004 was devoted to the official opening of the FOKUS Open IMS Playground, the 2006 workshop has been used to make publicly available the core of this NGN testbed, namely the Open Source IMS Core System (OSIMS) and to discuss hot topics like Fixed Mobile Convergence and PSTN replacement. Since then this enabling software for NGN and IMS testbed establishment has been downloaded many ten thousand times from various operators, vendors, integrators, and academic institutions all around the globe. We are proud to state, that a global and vivid OSIMS and IMS test bed community has been established since then. The 2007 event, which was attended by nearly 300 people from 29 nations, has given insights into the broadening scope of service convergence in the fields of interactive IPTV and Web 2.0 impacts on NGN service and platform evolution. Last year´s event proved the continuously high interest in the addressed topics and the related FOKUS open technology test beds and brought again more than 300 people from industry and academia to FOKUS. This 5th anniversary workshop should continue the mission to provide a premier information source and technical networking platform for international experts from the related industries and well known academic institutions.