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Frens Jan Rumph
Profile: I am a researcher, technical consultant and software engineer based in Holland. I have specialized in Charging, Accounting and Billing architectures. From both a technical point of view (IETF, 3GPP, etc) and a business point of view (TM Forum, GBA).
Main interests: Telecom, Charging, Accounting, Billing, Service Orientation, Software Architectures, Software Engineering
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IMS Forum plugfest 4
A small step for man, a giant leap for interoperability. The IMS Forum is presenting its results from the 4th plugfest at VON. I hope they also disseminate the results somehow on the internet in more then just a news bulletin.
The latest press release from IMS Forum at claims a milestone in OSS and BSS interoperability. So that sounds good! So Amdocs has shown their IMS/Diameter portfolio. Unfortunately I don’t know the Amdocs portfolio from the inside (basically only names on their website). So I’m not really sure what this means. At least its moving in the right direction! And guys: share! And not just at VON, we’re not all able to go there 
Plugfest 5 is also working on Charging and Billing! I only know the title, but it sounds good: “NGN M-Play, OSS/BSS and Billing Applications”. Lets hope that more BSS vendors will join. We don’t wont te be interoperable with just Amdocs now do we.
Frens Jan Rumph