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Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience | Presented by Empirix
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 11, 20075:00 PM Brussels CEST
11:00 AM New York EDT
8:00 AM Los Angeles PDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: FREE
While the initial hype behind IMS may have died down, quality assurance activity for the architecture has increased exponentially. Testing and monitoring of IMS is more important than ever and today’s telecom quality engineers have a lot of work ahead.
This webinar provides an overview on how to ensure a quality IMS experience . The webinar reviews key methodologies, tools, and procedures for testing and monitoring IMS devices, networks, and applications . This subject is addressed in more detail in the industry’s first written guide on IMS Testing and Monitoring – Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience.
Specifically, this webinar will cover:
- The latest telecom quality assurance processes and how they must adapt for IMS
- IMS device testing examples including test setup, common problem areas, and key success metrics
- Testing and monitoring common real-world end-to-end IMS network problems
- Ensuring quality in IMS applications such as Hosted Business VoIP services, Push-to-Talk over Cellular, and FMC
- Best practices for testing and monitoring IMS
Speakers:
Chad Hart, Product Marketing Manager, Empirix® Inc.
Mr. Hart is responsible for internal and external marketing of the Hammer Testing Portfolio of products. He has held various product management, marketing, and engineering positions with telephony and wireless technology suppliers and operators. Chad has a BSEE and MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dan Teichman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Empirix® Inc.
Dan is responsible for product management and marketing for Empirix’s VoIP and IMS monitoring portfolio - Hammer XMS. Dan joined Empirix in December, 2005 with 25 years experience in product management and marketing in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as Director of Product Management at Apani Networks’ Mobile Security Solutions business unit. Prior to Apani, he served as Director - Product Marketing, as well as Director - Business Development at Integral Access, a venture-funded supplier of packet-based, multi-service access solutions. Prior to Integral Access, Dan held several management positions in Market Development and System Engineering at Nortel.
Moderator:
Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia
Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. His professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
Posted at June 25, 2007 03:13 PM

