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GMI 2008

LOCATIONS

• BT Advanced Comms Technology Centre, Adastral Park, in Martlesham, Ipswich Suffolk, United Kingdom
• China Mobile Research Institute in Beijing, China
• The National Communications System (NCS) eXperimental Testbed Environment (XTE) located at CSC in Chantilly, Virginia, United States
• Verizon Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
• University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire, United States



PARTICIPANTS

Acme Packet Codenomicon Empirix Inc. Fujitsu Huawei Technologies Ixia JDSU Lucent Technologies

Motorola MuDynamics NEC Nokia-Siemens Networks Nortel OSI Sonus

Spirent Starent Networks Tekelec Tektronix Telchemy TELES ZTE Corporation



GMI 2008 WHITE PAPER

• GMI 2008 Results: Final Version of the White Paper
(PDF)



BT Press Day- October 2008

Click here to view footage from the GMI 2008 Press Event at the BT Tower in London, October 28, 2008

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BT Press Day at London Tower	Stunning View from London Tower
MSF's President, Roger Ward, speaking to the press	Panelists address the press
Press Day Luncheon at BT Tower	Guests at BT Press Day

Verizon Press Day- October 2008


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Verizon answers questions in the lab	Press view Lab and GMI Participants
Press Visit at Verizon Lab	Verizon Lab tour






Marketing

• GMI PR Guidelines
(PDF)
• MSF Logo Usage Guidelnes
• GMI 2008 Logo 400x122 gif / 200x61 gif / psd
• GMI 2008 Non-Disclosure Agreement: (PDF)
• GMI 2008 Participant Contract:Global MSF Interoperability Demonstration 2008 ("GMI") Contract (PDF)





• Important Documents for GMI 2008
MSF GMI2008 Scenario & Test Case Contributions #'s for member and GMI 2008 Participant Project Contributions in ARO
Implementation Agreements: (PDF)
Test Scenarios for GMI 2008: (PDF)
Network Elements for GMI 2008: (PDF)
Results Recording Procedures: (PDF)
Physical Scenarios Documents




ATIS and MSF Partner for GMI 2008!


The MSF and ATIS are joining forces to provide a comprehensive IPTV test environment during GMI 2008.

The MSF is pleased to announce a new, exclusive partnership with ATIS for IPTV testing as defined by ATIS' IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). ATIS will utilize the MSF's GMI Event to provide a testing ecosystem to validate IPTV equipment based on the globally recognized IIF specifications.

For more information, please contact Kristin Harris at kharris@iol.unh.edu




GMI 2008 will focus on providing a technical validation of the MSF Release 4 Architecture and supporting Implementation Agreements as the basis for interoperability between vendors within practical network deployments.

The MSF Release 4 Architecture and Implementation Agreements are particularly focussed on:

• IMS as a basis of carrier-grade session control;
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a mechanism for rapid service creation with access to IMS session control;
• IPTV and location-based services as representative emerging services;
• elaborated QoS control as an essential underpinning for content-intensive services such as IPTV;
• the ability to monitor services from the user point of view;
• practical deployment scenarios that focus on realistic network evolution.

GMI 2008 will provide direct marketing value to the MSF membership by demonstrating their commitment to open, interoperable multi-vendor NGN networks.

OTHER LINKS

• MSF Press Room (Articles and Press Releases)

Past GMI Events

• GMI 2006 archive

• GMI 2004 archive

• GMI 2002 archive