MSF hosts VoLTE IOT event with industry participation

Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, Codenomicon, D2 Technologies, EXFO, IPneo, Metaswitch, Samsung, Stoke, Traffix Systems and VSS Monitoring are participating in the September Voice over LTE (VoLTE) Interoperability Testing Event. These companies join event sponsors Genband, Huawei, ZTE, Alepo, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco and WiChorus, a Tellabs company as VoLTE IOT (Interoperability Testing) participants. This brings the total event participation to 25 companies. The test event, in partnership with the GSMA as part of its global VoLTE initiative, will be hosted by MSF (MultiService Forum) and mobile operators Vodafone and China Mobile in the Vodafone Test and Innovation Centre in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the China Mobile research Institute Laboratory in Beijing, China. The MSF VoLTE interoperability event targets interoperability of EPC, PCC, and IMS core elements supplied by different vendors. Test scenarios include VoLTE basic interoperability, but also focus on global Roaming and Interconnection as specified by the GSMA. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has launched an MSF initiative to develop conformance test cases for the LTE EPC interfaces. The goal of this initiative is to develop a suite of EPC test documents that can be utilised by third party labs or network operators to evaluate whether a given vendor's implementation of EPC interfaces conforms to the 3GPP specifications. NIST is looking to develop public safety conformance tests, as the basis for a future MSF IOT Event. The MSF Q3 Technical Committee Meeting in Denver appointed Jesus Trujillo Gomez, Technical Marketing Engineer of Cisco Systems to the Technical Committee Leadership Team.