MSF - MSF Theater, Spring VON 2007

Spring VON 2007 - MSF Theater Schedule

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

10:30 AM - 11:20 AM	Panel Session: IMS Soup - What's in the Mix? Moderator: Chanh Phung, IP Unity, MSF Interoperability Working Group Vice Chair Gordon Beith, Empirix Betsy Covell, Alcatel-Lucent, 3GPP2 TSG-X Working Group Chair Download the presentations (ZIP file)
Abstract:	Many standard bodies are now converged onto the IMS architecture and actively contributing directly and indirectly to the IMS architecture. The MSF has made significant contributions in the SIP and IMS areas with GMI 2006. Information sharing and collaboration with other standard bodies are essential for MSF. This information sharing session is to invite the experts from the different standard bodies to talk about their group and to share details about the active programs being undertaken.
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM	VoIP peering: Avoiding the Pain, Capturing the Profit Speaker: Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	With residential VoIP subscribers and business adoption of IP telephony increasing each quarter and service provider VoIP traffic numbering in the tens of billions of minutes per month, the number and size of VoIP islands continues to grow. Despite this growth, the full potential of capex and opex savings is not being realized due to carrier interconnects that still predominately make use of TDM. Inserting the PSTN unnecessarily in between IP endpoints also breaks the potential for other collaborative and multimedia communication options. VoIP peering enables service providers-both incumbent operators and alternative and competitive providers-to offer new IP interactive communication services and realize the cost savings, operational efficiencies and new revenue potentials of VoIP. However, there are numerous challenges to making VoIP peering successful on a large scale and this panel will explore solutions, including: How to most efficiently route calls across numerous peers How to build a low-latency, massively scalable peering architectures What the necessary requirements are for building a secure and reliable peering border How calls can traverse heterogeneous networks, including mediating address spaces, signaling, transport and encryption protocols and codecs How to continue to make use of e.164 phone numbers to simplify operations and user experience and how ENUM's role in enabling this
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM	ENUM Speaker: James McEachern, Nortel, MSF Vice President Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	ENUM can be deployed in many variations, including User, Infrastructure (formerly known as "Carrier") and Private. Although they are all called "ENUM" they are different in fundamental ways that determine the appropriate ENUM for a given application. Some combinations of ENUM and applications are natural while others simply do not make sense. But this does not mean the variations of ENUM are mutually exclusive. In the right context, all three variations of ENUM will play a valid role. Topics will include: How does Infrastructure ENUM compare with User ENUM? What is the role of private ENUM? Why will some ENUM applications always be private? How will multiple ENUM responses from different sources be handled
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM	IMS and A-IMS What’s in the Name? Speaker: Pierre Lynch, Ixia Download the presentation (PDF file)
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM	Emergence of IMS Applications Speaker: Martin Taylor, MetaSwitch Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	Building an IMS infrastructure is a major investment, and service providers must look to the revenue-generating potential of applications that are enabled by IMS for a return on that investment. But what are those applications? Will IMS be used mainly to support warmed-over versions of traditional telephony services? Or will IMS usher in a whole new generation of applications that drive substantial new revenues for service providers who innovate? In this session, we look at the value that IMS brings to traditional telephony applications, discuss the opportunities for service innovation that are created by IMS, and peer into the future in an attempt to identify winning applications that help justify migration to IMS.
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM	Service Independence and IMS - Friend or Foe to Carriers? Speaker: Larry Ma, ZTE Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	While carriers are eager to capitalize on their IMS deployments via service options, it is critical to focus on deploying those services that will be optimized in the IMS environment. This presentation will educate attendees on ideal services to run over IMS architectures, and best practices for service delivery. In particular, it will explore the building-blocks approach, which enables fast delivery of innovative IMS services. Attendees will learn about the most direct new service enabled by IMS, which is a seamless handover between fixed and mobile networks, thanks to the access-independent nature of IMS and the recent research and standardization works in the Voice Call Continuity (VCC) sub-area. The presentation will also explore presence-based multimedia services, as well as the benefits to integrating IMS with IPTV, which unleashes a breed of new services, including video caller ID on TV and album/video sharing.
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM	MSF Certification Speaker: Andy Huckridge, Spirent Communications, MSF Interoperability Working Group Chair Download the presentation (PDF file)
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM	IMS: End Game, or Means to an End? Speaker: Venkatesh Seshasayee, Wipro Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	The increasing acceptance of IMS among operators and service providers indicates that IMS is a harbinger of new revenue streams, new business models, and network and application capabilities. This is also endorsement of the view that IMS is most certainly also the fuel for the paradigm shift from a network-driven services model to a services-driven network model. It is to be noted that, for an operator, the network itself is just an enabler for a larger business goal of providing enriched personalized services to its customers. This brings into perspective the role of IMS itself, as one such enabler, from an operator's or a service provider's standpoint. The presentation will attempt to provide insights into the triggers for migration from existing network paradigms to the IMS-as-an-enabler model. The presentation provides a view of the network capabilities that IMS provides inherently, and proposes models for how these network and service delivery capabilities can be leveraged by operators to realize a rich set of secure, combinatorial applications that can be delivered to an end-user in a personalized manner, so as to facilitate a Quality of end-user experience. The presentation will provide a view of how different IMS network capabilities can be offered as assets or fine-grained services to realize such applications. Examples of such models include Security-as-a-service, QoS-as-a-service, service-orchestration-as-a-service. The presentation will provide use-cases that will demonstrate how these assets and services can be effectively harnessed to eventually provide a rich end-user experience. In general, the presentation espouses the IMSNetwork-as-an-API model that also has significant potential for being used in a host of business models that the operator can explore.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM	Certification Testing: Case Study of a Success Story Speaker: Richard Dagnall, Iometrix, MSF MAE Committee Chairperson Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	This session will examine how a successful certification program becomes a focal point for vendors, service providers and end users seeking industry validated verification of equipment, protocols and services. The analysis will be based on a case study of the MEF certification program launched in April 2005 and often cited by industry experts as one of the most successful such programs to be launched in recent years. We will talk about the decision process that led to the structure and organization of the MEF program and the elements that account for the strong industry adherence to the program. The session will cover a broad range of essential topics including the program's technical, administrative and marketing organizations and the important differences between the programs of different industry groups.
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM	Emergence of IMS Applications in MSF Architecture Speaker: John Wullert, Telcordia Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	The MSF R3 architecture is designed as an infrastructure to support advanced communications services. Many such services were demonstrated during the recent MSF Global Interoperability event. This talk will describe the service-supporting features of the MSF R3 architecture and illustrate its capabilities with specific GMI test cases.
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM	Panel Session: Lessons Learned from GMI 2006 Moderator: James McEachern, Nortel, MSF Vice President Gordon Beith, Empirix
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM	IMS: Right or Wrong? Speaker: Speaker: Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	The religious fervor around IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) today is supreme. IMS is being embraced by service providers and vendors alike worldwide as the savior for what ails the telecom industry. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) researchers, IMS is the next gen architecture for mobile services and represents the interests of the walled-garden mobile network providers and their vendors. Additionally, there is a tremendous desire to also exploit IMS for converged fixed-mobile and fixed only, wireline services. However in this exploit, IMS, like Catholicism, now has its own Protestant sects - ETSI TISPAN, ATIS, MSF, PacketCable and the DSL Forum - that are breaking off and defining their own architecture and technology extensions/replacements to the IMS dogma. This session will discuss what's viewed as right and wrong from many different perspectives. More specifically, this session will address the following: What functions & features need to be added to IMS for wireline networks? What is missing from IMS to support wireless networks from a practical deployment perspective? What IMS technology choices are great and which choices cause concern relative to product availability, cost, functionality and future scalability in terms of performance (calls per second, signaling latency, etc.) and capacity? Since IMS is defined in terms of functions, not products, what product options are available in implementing IMS
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM	Emergence of IMS Applications Speaker: Martin Taylor, MetaSwitch Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	Building an IMS infrastructure is a major investment, and service providers must look to the revenue-generating potential of applications that are enabled by IMS for a return on that investment. But what are those applications? Will IMS be used mainly to support warmed-over versions of traditional telephony services? Or will IMS usher in a whole new generation of applications that drive substantial new revenues for service providers who innovate? In this session, we look at the value that IMS brings to traditional telephony applications, discuss the opportunities for service innovation that are created by IMS, and peer into the future in an attempt to identify winning applications that help justify migration to IMS.
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM	Panel Session: IMS Deployment: Where, When, Why and How Moderator: James McEachern, Nortel, MSF Vice President Gordon Beith, Empirix Andy Huckridge, Spirent Communications, MSF Interoperability Working Group Chair
Abstract:	This panel, with representatives from both carriers and vendors, will discuss the current state of IMS product development, trials, and planning. Operational expense, new service revenue, bundling, and convergence will be discussed in the context of how they are likely to effect the deployment of IMS.
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	GMI 2006 Deep Dive: QoS Speaker: Olov Schelén, Operax Download the presentation (PDF file)
Abstract:	Session control through SIP is the basis for network operators supporting carrier grade voice and multimedia services. The 3GPP IMS and the ITU-T and ETSI Tispan NGN standards define an architecture supporting SIP based session control, roaming and accounting for fixed and mobile IP networks. Central in these architectures are the Resource and Admission Control functions (RACS/RACF) and Policy Decision functions (PDF/PCRF). These functions are essential in providing critical and accountable services both for network operators and for independent service providers. The MSF architecture includes these functions in the physical entity known as the Bandwidth Manager. The independent Bandwidth Manager is a key concept to support a multi-services network environment where both hosted services and independent application service provider can be supported. The success of the Internet shows that the model of separating network and services is right. There are however clear business requirements for managed carrier grade services to ensure the quality of experience to the end users. The independent Bandwidth Manager is a vital component for quality of experience by providing automatic fine granular QoS control for multiple managed services over IP networks that are essentially based on Class of Service (CoS) in the forwarding plane. This talk explains how the IMS/NGN is physically instantiated in the MSF architecture with independent Application Servers (providing the services), Call Session Control servers (providing CSC), Bandwidth Managers (providing RACS/RACF), Session Border Gateways (providing BGF) and Routers/Switches. The focus of the talk is then on the role of the Bandwidh Manager, including state-of-the art experiences from the recent Global MSF Interoperability test as well as commercial status of multi-service QoS control over the broadband access. Some key drivers for the deployment of Bandwidth Manager will be discussed. These include: grade-of-service for NGN may never be worse that legacy (telephony, cable-TV, etc.) o interactivity is a key driver for IP services and user behaviors are unknown there are some relative contention points that over-dimensioning can not solve due to technology or cost, e.g. in access links, at backhaul aggregation, at interconnect points speed to market for services keeping a lid on operational complexity for services and network providers

Thursday, March 22, 2007

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Emergence of IMS Applications and Web Services
Speaker: James McEachern, Nortel, MSF Vice President

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Abstract:

IMS will enable network convergence, but focusing exclusively on this would miss the point. It is widely recognized that the emergence of new applications and services will be the real attraction of IMS. However, focusing exclusively on IMS applications would equally miss the point. The real power of IMS is that it creates an infrastructure that allows real time communications centric applications to be integrated with applications based on Services Oriented Architectures via Web Services. The emergence of "IMS applications" that effectively leverage the inherent strengths of both IMS and Web Services will be a key feature of future IMS deployments. This session will discuss the attributes of services that will emerge in this environment and why these will be so interesting.

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