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MSF Adds to Leadership TeamApr 21, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The MSF (MultiService Forum) announced that Kyu-Ouk Lee, Principal Member / Project Manager, Engineering at Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and David Francisco, Standards Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks, have been re-elected to the Board of Directors. In addition, Sai Mahalingam, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. and William Vink, Solution Engineer at JDSU joined the MSF's Technical Committee Leadership Team. According to a release, the MSF has seen growth this year, welcoming five new member companies to the forum: Alepo, Bridgewater Systems, JDSU, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and WiChorus, a Tellabs Company. "We are very fortunate to have such a rich and broad mix of carriers and vendors represented on the MSF leadership team," said Jim McEachern, Genband, MSF president. "It's clear that the impressive growth in the MSF this year is driven by the value the industry sees in our focus on Voice over LTE (VoLTE), IP Network-to-Network Interconnection (IP-NNI) testing as well as Performance and IPTV Interoperability Testing." At the MSF's Q2 meeting in Lisbon it was also announced that the September 2011 VoLTE IOT event, in partnership with GSMA and hosted by Vodafone and China Mobile, is receiving industry support, with seven official sponsoring companies, including Genband, Huawei, ZTE, Alepo, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco and WiChorus. The MultiService Forum (MSF) is a global association of service providers, system suppliers and test equipment vendors committed to developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice Next Generation Networks. More information: www.msforum.org ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |