The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) announced plans for a global interoperability event to take place next year. Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2004, which will be conducted simultaneously in Europe, North America and Asia, will demonstrate a deployable and operationally ready IP telephony network with Network Management, enhanced QoS and security features. The Forum plans to unveil physical architecture scenarios for GMI 2004 later this year. The MSF also elected its new leadership for two year terms. The new board of directors includes Mark Carroll of Cisco Systems, Chris Daniel of Leapstone Systems, Brian Down of Marconi Communications, Ken Rambo of Qwest Communications and Roger Ward of BT. Rich Seager of NG Technologies and Avri Doria of ETRI were elected chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Technical Committee. Neil Anderson of Spirent Communications was elected chair of the Marketing, Awareness and Education (MAE) Committee and Scott Yagel was elected vice chair.
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- The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) is a global association of service providers and system suppliers committed to developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice switching systems. A Multiservice Switching System (MSS) is a distributed switching method -- frame, cell or packet-based -- designed to support voice, video, private line and data such as ATM, Frame Relay and IP services using all types of access technologies. The MSF Implementation Agreements (IAs) define the requirements of the interfaces between components of a MSS.
