IMS Forum and Aricent have launched a new Web site that hosts an industry-wide collaborative platform of comprehensive test cases for the validation of IMS and NGN equipment and services.
www.testngn.org claims to offer the industry’s first community-based, open repository for NGN testing that allows network equipment manufacturers and service providers to significantly reduce the time, complexity, and cost required to introduce next generation networks and services, including equipment such as multimedia gateways, home subscriber and application servers, and services – including voice and multimedia over IP, converged Web-telephony services and IPTV.
The repository will allow equipment manufacturers and service providers to download, post and share global testing experiences. This approach will help minimize the time spent on test case development, planning, writing and preparation, and accelerate the testing cycle for NGN architectures while reducing complexity and time to market, said the companies.
The IMS Forum’s TestNGN and Interoperability Working Groups are focused respectively on the product interoperability, reliability and operational and management issues associated with converged IMS and NGN applications and services delivered over wireless (3G, LTE), wireline (DSL, optical) and cable broadband. The groups say that converged applications and the vehicles which deliver such services will be timely and well supported from a provisioning, billing and management systems perspective.
Aricent has developed an extensive NGN testing practice, employing more than 1,600 test engineers and test consultants. The practice has more than 70,000 test cases for wireless, VoIP and IMS, all designed to speed the worldwide delivery of Next Generation networks and services.
