Glossary

The ETSI Plugtest is a professional unit of ETSI specializing in running interoperability test events for a wide range of telecommunications, Internet, broadcasting and multimedia converging standards. The goals of the event are to: Enhance the quality of specifications Speed up the standardization process Reduce time to market Support the ...

A partnership between network operators and terminal manufacturers that provides an independent program to ensure global interoperability of 2G and 3G mobile wireless terminals whose objective is to boost industry confidence in the performance and reliability of new 3G mobile devices. The GCF mainly deals with validation of handsets and ...

The IMS Forum are a global non-profit industry association dedicated to the advancement of IP Multimedia Subsystem applications and services interoperability.The IMS Forum is focused on revenue-generating services and best practices for IMS applications convergence. The IMS Forum is the creator and organizer of IMS Plugfest™, NGN Plugfest™, and IMS/NGN ...

The IMS Forum Plugfest is an interoperability event organized by the IMS Forum that brings together service providers and IMS vendors committed to furthering the development of IMS certification, and provides a unique opportunity to establish agreed upon requirements and criteria for IMS applications and services interoperability. The goal of ...

The IMTC is an international community of companies working together to promote and facilitate the development and use of interoperable, real-time, multimedia telecommunications products and services based on open international standards.Standards that are being actively tested by IMTC members include H.323, SIP, RTSP and 3G-324M.The IMTC is split into various ...

OMA is the focal point for the development of mobile service enabler specifications, which support the creation of interoperable end-to-end mobile services.The OMA Interoperability Process defines Interoperability Testing Events commonly known as 'OMA TestFests' designed to help achieve a number of goals for OMA and its Members. These goals are:To ...

The SIPit, or Session Initiation Protocol Interoperability Test, is a weeklong event where people bring their SIP implementations to ensure they work together.Each SIPit is open to anyone with a working SIP implementation. The goal of the events is to refine both the protocol and its implementations. SIPit is a ...

The SuperOp! is an annual IMTC event where vendors gather to test their products for interoperability of multimedia products that are handled by the various activity groups of the IMTC. The following types of protocols are being tested at SuperOp! interoperability events: H.323 and SIP enterprise video conferencing Telepresence 3G-324M ...

UCIF (Unified Communications Interoperability Forum) is an international organization dedicated to interoperability of unified communications solutions. UCIF deals with focusing on interoperability of existing standards specified by other organizations and not in writing the standards themselves. Members of UCIF include Aspect, AudioCodes, ClearOne, HP, Jabra, Juniper Networks, Logitech/LifeSize Communications, Microsoft, ...