IMTC Press Releases

IMTC SuperOp! 2008 Thirteenth Annual Interoperability Testing Event for Multimedia Products and Services to be Held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 12-16
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) announces that SuperOp! 2008, the premier testing event of the telecommunications industry for multimedia standards and products is now open for registration through April 18 at www.imtc.org. SuperOp! is a must event for all of multimedia telecommunications equipment manufacturers and service providers, providing unprecedented opportunities to perform rigorous interoperability testing for their products and services. IMTC member and non-member companies are invited to participate in this week long testing event.
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MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS FORUM AT FALL VON EXPLORES REALITIES OF UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTENT DELIVERY AT&T, Cisco, Polycom, RADVISION, RealNetworks and others capture manufacturer, service provider, content creator and user perspectives
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) announced today that worldwide telecommunication leaders will explore the challenges and opportunities of unified communications and content delivery Oct. 29 in Boston. The IMTC Forum, Content Delivery in a Converging World: Realities and Perspective, in cooperation with Pulvermedias Fall VON, is open to non-members as well as IMTC members.
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IMTC Focuses on IMS Video Share Testing and 3G Video Telephony Fast Call Setup Time at Upcoming Interoperability Event The 2007 Face-to-Face Interoperability Event to be held in Tel Aviv, October 8-12, 2007
The IMS and 3G-324M Activity Groups of the IMTC (The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium) will be focusing this years Face-to-Face Interoperability Events on IMS Video Share testing and MONA (ITU-T H.324 Annex K) and WNRSP call session setup acceleration techniques. The upcoming face-to-face interoperability event will be hosted by RADVISION for the second year in a row and will take place at RADVISION headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel in October.
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IMS FORUM SIGNS MOU WITH INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSORTIUM (IMTC) TO JOINTLY COLLABORATE ON ADVANCING REAL LIFE IMS INTEROPERABILITY
The IMS Forum, the industrys only Forum delivering IMS services interoperability verification and certification, announced today that they have signed an MOU with the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), an international alliance of companies working together to improve the customer experience and accelerate market adoption of content delivery and unified communications solutions through interoperability of products and services based on open standards. The IMS Forum focuses on interoperability at the IMS Applications and Services Layer across mobile, fixed and cable broadband networks. The IMTC IMS Activity Group focuses on issues surrounding IMS Client interoperability, development and providing feedback to standards organizations.
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IMTC SUPEROP! PROVIDES INTEROPERABILITY TESTING FOR LEADERS IN MULTIMEDIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) announces that SuperOp! 2007, the premier testing event for the telecommunications industry is open for registration until March 21. SuperOp! is a unique testing event allowing organizations to test the latest software, hardware versions of their platforms against one another using the latest IETF and ITU multimedia open standards.
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GCF PARTNERS WITH IMTC TO DEVELOP TEST SPECIFICATIONS FOR 3G HANDSET MANUFACTURERS SUPPORTING VIDEO TELEPHONY
The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) announced today that any new 3G mobile phones supporting R99 CS (circuit-switched) video telephony must now pass interoperability and conformance test developed by IMTC as part of the GCF certification process.
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IMTC SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES 3G-324M INTEROPERABILITY TEST OF REAL-TIME VIDEO TELEPHONY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IMTC tests with new ITU-T approved MONA, 3G-324M Annex K in event, Welcomes Intel and Sunplus as new IMTC members
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortiums (IMTC) 3G-324M Activity Group (AG) conducted a live, face-to-face interoperability testing event during its August 2006 session. In addition to standard testing suites, the group also included the ITU-approved MONA and 3G-324M Annex K as part of the testing activities. The test suites and ITU-T standards are key to enabling the industry to commercialize 3G-324M products and services. This latest event continues IMTCs long history of pursuing interoperable real-time telephony products and services.
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IMTC KICKS OFF LATEST ROUND OF 3G INTEROPERABILITY TESTING FOR MUSIC, VIDEO AND MOBILE TV APPLICATIONS
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium’s Packet-switched Streaming Services Activity Group (PSS-AG) staged a live face-to-face interoperability test event in June, kicking off its latest cycle of interoperability testing of 3GPP and 3GPP2 streaming standards. The PSS-AG is focused on testing the interoperability of cutting-edge features from the latest 3G multimedia streaming specifications, including streaming bit-rate adaptation, multi-track signaling, and progressive download of the latest codecs including H.264 Video and Enhanced aacPlus Audio.
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IMTC & ITU-T Host Multimedia Services Joint Spring Forum
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) and the ITU-T held a joint ITU-T Workshop and IMTC Spring Forum that was hosted by Nokia in San Diego, May 9-11, 2006 to drive further market acceptance, interoperability and usage of video and multimedia services over mobile and broadband networks.
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