MU SECURITY ADVANCES IMS SERVICE ASSURANCE AT IMS PLUGFEST™ IV INTEROPERABILITY EVENT FEBRUARY 25-29 IN DURHAM, NH
New Mu Security and IMS Forum® Whitepaper Discusses Need for Reliability and Availability for Enhanced SIP, DoS, and RTP
Sunnyvale, Calif. - February 14, 2008 - Mu Security, a pioneer in the new security analyzer market, announced today its participation in the IMS Forum’s IMS Plugfest IV interoperability test event to be held February 25-29, 2008, at the UNH InterOp Lab (IOL) in Durham, NH. The Plugfest IV participation follows at the recent participation of Mu Security in CableLabs IMS project speeding up deployment for advanced IP services for cable companies.
More than a dozen companies have announced their participation in IMS Forum Plugfest IV to date and Intel has signed on as a Platinum Sponsor of the Event. IMS Magazine and Pulvermedia, Inc. are media sponsors of the event. Plugfest IV results will be announced on March 18 at Spring VON.x 2008 in San Jose, CA.
Mu has actively engaged with all four IMS Forum IMS Plugfests, focusing on the importance of IMS availability and resiliency testing prior to product deployment including the proactive elimination of product weaknesses and 0-day issues. The IMS Forum and Mu Security also just published a new technical paper describing the need and processes involved in IMS Service Assurance. The IMS Plugfest IV will further help foster interoperability by creating industry-recognized interoperability test plans for IMS applications and services, billing and OSS/BSS enabling service providers of all types to expedite IMS service rollout.
IMS Services Increasingly Deployed by Carriers
For the last few years, the IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) architecture has been heavily explored by leading service providers and their suppliers but not rapidly implemented due to fragile interoperability and untested specifications. Both barriers, expected during initial development, appear to be quickly falling as the technology with more production deployments.
The focus of the IMS Forum Plugfests mirrors carriers’ needs by moving beyond interoperability and into ensuring maximum uptime and assurance for all revenue generating applications and services. A complete portfolio of services to be tested is being defined by the IMS Forum Interoperability and Testing Working Group. It will include VoIP services for consumer and enterprise users, various types of video services, Fixed-Mobile Converged services including support of Femtocell, unified communications (UC) and interworking with IMS and operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS).
“For VoIP and IMS, SIP is increasingly commonly deployed and its complexity means that it must be thoroughly analyzed and tested before providers depend on it for high-growth revenue generating service offerings. Interoperability is the IMS Forum’s starting point but always-available IMS-based services certified by the IMS Forum are essential to both carrier profitability and vendor success,” said Michael Khalilian, IMS Forum chairman and president.
About Mu Security
Mu Security offers a new class of security analysis system, delivering a rigorous and streamlined methodology for verifying the robustness and security readiness of any IP-based product or application. Since Mu’s debut of its flagship Mu-4000 Security Analyzer appliance in early 2005, the company has achieved significant customer traction. One-third of the world's 15 largest service provider and cable operators now use Mu; Mu's customers represent one-half of the revenue in the global network, application and security infrastructure market; and Mu's customers represent one-third of the revenue in the global industrial control manufacturer market. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Mu is backed by preeminent venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. More information is available at http://www.musecurity.com.
About the IMS Forum®
The IMS Forum is a global, non-profit industry association devoted to interoperable IP Multimedia Subsystem services delivery architecture and solutions. IMS Forum’s mission is to accelerate the interoperability of IMS revenue-generating services and enabling enterprise and residential consumers to fully benefit from the delivery of multimedia mobile and fixed services over broadband cable, wireless, wireline and fiber networks. The IMS Forum is the creator and organizer of the IMS Plugfest™, the industry’s only event focused on IMS service interoperability verification and certification through the IMS Certified™ program.
Through its organized Plugfests, working group interactions and other activities, forum members are able to develop cost-effective technical frameworks for converged IP services over wireline, cable, 3G, WiFi and WiMAX networks. For additional information or to join the IMS Forum and the IMS Plugfest, please visit www.IMSForum.org.
For Further Information contact:
Kevin Gallagher
Gallagher Group Communications
925-831-1041
kevin@gg-comm.com
IMS Forum Marketing / Communications
PR@IMSForum.org
+1 (970) 262-6100
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