IMS Forum: The Voice of IP Convergence

Berlin, Germany - September 30, 2009 - Testing Technologies announced today that it will participate in the NGN IMS Forum's^TM eighth Plugfest^TM to be held October 5 thru October 9^th, 2009 at the InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL) in Durham, NH.

"We are very pleased to participate in the NGN IMS Forum Plugfests," said Frank Frederking, VP Sales, Americas, Testing Technologies. "The NGN IMS Forum Plugfests are the industry's only interoperability events covering converged IMS and NGN services over wireless, wireline and cable broadband.
The NGN IMS Forum Plugfest^TM is the most frequent interoperability event in the industry."

Testing Tech's TTworkbench will provide a test stimulus (simulating SIP clients/UAs) to the CSCF, setting up USER sessions and transactions that will then be forwarded over the DIAMETER Cx interface to the HSS and Sh interface, to AS and other relevant Network Elements. This will allow the participants in Plugfest 8^TM to do Interoperability Testing between the CSCF, HSS and AS. Testing Technologies has expanded its TTsuite product line with TTsuite-HSS, the certification and interoperability test framework for Home Subscriber Server implementations (HSS).

Testing HSS contains user and service data for authorization, accounting and roaming. TTsuite-HSS supports 3GPP release 6 and 7, providing 88 test cases for all kinds of procedures (location management, user data handling, authentication, subscription, and notification). TTsuite-HSS focuses on protocol conformance of the interaction between HSS and other IMS signaling components in compliance with the relevant requirements for the Cx and Sh interface. Users are able to perform standards-based testing according to DIAMETER specifications.

"We welcome the contribution and participation of Testing Technologies in our NGN and IMS Plugfest modules," said Michael Khalilian, President NGN IMS Forum. "We are looking forward to enhancing the module testing series in our upcoming Plugfests events."

About Testing Technologies GmbH

Testing Technologies designs and markets a variety of ready-to-run test solutions for commercial, proprietary or PC based test systems. Testing Technologies helps customers create high quality products by high quality testing. Their solutions enable test automation across technologies, development phases and any types of testing. With a wide range of services, their experts support you in all phases of your test life-cycle. As a market leader in customer-oriented testing for standards-based technologies, Testing Technologies is dedicated to TTCN-3 only. Together with ETSI, they guarantee durability and continuous improvement of standardized test solutions to secure your investments.

Through cooperation with strong global and local partners, Testing Technologies is able to respond more effectively to customer needs in testing. Numerous partner companies across Europe, USA and Asia spread the ideas and basic principles of systematic, automated testing worldwide. Testing Technologies was founded as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in 2000. Our team of experts is continuously developing new products to meet the expectations of evolving markets.

About Teraquant

Teraquant is an owner-operated Test Solutions company staffed with technical specialists with decades of experience in Telecommunications Test. Founded in 2001 Teraquant is privately owned and profitable. Teraquant are dedicated to supplying test solutions that precisely match the needs of our customers and are supported with proactive and immaculate professionalism. Their customers include Cisco, Comcast, Level(3), Microsoft, Motorola, Ericsson, Nortel, Bell Mobility and AT&T Labs. We are the distributor for Utel Systems, Qosmotec GmbH and Netcare International for the United States and Canada. Teraquant Corporation is the distributor for the USA for Testing Technologies' TTworkbench

About the NGN Forum^TM and IMS Forum^®

The NGN/IMS Forum is the only global telecommunications association devoted to Next Generation Network (NGN) service delivery and interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services architectures and solutions.

The Forum's mission is to accelerate the interoperability of IMS and NGN services and to enable enterprise and residential consumers to benefit fully from the delivery of M-play^TM: rich multimedia, mobility and fixed services over wireline, cable, GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE and fiber broadband networks. The Forum is the creator and organizer of the IMS Plugfests^TM and NGN Plugfests^TM, the industry's only events focused on verification and certification of IMS and NGN service interoperability through the IMS Certified^TM and NGN Certified^TM programs.

Through organized Plugfests, technical working groups and other activities, Forum members develop cost-effective technical frameworks for revenue generating converged IP NGN solutions. The combined organizations include over 2000 executives and technical, business development and marketing professionals from global and emerging equipment vendors, solution providers, integrators, service providers, and governmental agencies.

For additional information or to join the NGN Forum, the IMS Plugfest, and/or the NGN Plugfest, please visit www.IMSforum.org or contact info@imsforum.org.

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