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Progress on the Advanced Multimedia System

ITU-T Q12/16 met the last week of August to make progress on the Advanced Multimedia System (▲AMS), the next-generation multimedia communication system that will enable users to communicate using a multiplicity of communication modes across any number of independent devices. The focus of this meeting was primarily on network architecture and requirements. Read the full story here.

Permalink to: Progress on the Advanced Multimedia System - September 7, 2008

Advanced Multimedia System Takes Steps

Experts working on the next generation multimedia communication system known as ▲AMS recently completed a meeting, reaching some important decisions on architecture, terminology, and protocol syntax used in the new system. The new system will be a decomposed system, allowing anyone to create new applications and will utilize ▲XML as the basis for the signaling protocol. You can read the full story here.

Permalink to: Advanced Multimedia System Takes Steps - July 3, 2008

ITU Approves the Creation of a Question to Study the Advanced Multimedia System (AMS)

ITU-T SG16 formally approved Question 12 as a new Question focused on the study of the ▲Advanced Multimedia System. This is really exciting, as we are now looking toward the future of distributed communication capabilities and truly enabling coordinated multimedia applications — something that the industry has, thus far, not successfully delivered.

So, work on AMS is moving ahead! During this meeting that just concluded in Geneva, a number of new requirements were added to the AMS project, the AMS project description was reviewed, and the experts agreed on a document that that will serve as the skeleton document for the AMS terminal architecture.

The next meeting of Question 12 will be held in late June or early July 2008 in North Carolina, USA. The exact date and location of the meeting will be sent to the SG16 mailing list once it has been finalized. For information related various AMS-related mailing lists, visit http://www.packetizer.com/ipmc/ams/lists.html.

Permalink to: ITU Approves the Creation of a Question to Study the Advanced Multimedia System (AMS) - May 5, 2008

VoIP Bandwidth Calculator Now Multilingual

The Packetizer VoIP Bandwidth Calculator was recently updated to include a Spanish translation! This is exciting since, although Packetizer's visitors come from nearly every country in the world, this is the first non-English web page published by Packetizer. While trying to make the entire Packetizer site multilingual would prove to be a nearly impossible task, certain content like the VoIP Bandwidth Calculator are definitely good candidates for translation since it is such a useful tool.

We would like to reach out to the Packetizer Community and ask for your help: if you are a user of the VoIP Bandwidth Calculator and would be willing to provide us with a translation into a different language, do it! We will gladly put up any language version that is provided to us. All we would need is a translation of the text that appears on the page in your language in either a Word file or a UTF-8-encoded .txt file.

Permalink to: VoIP Bandwidth Calculator Now Multilingual - February 21, 2008

Industry Makes Progress on AMS

ITU-T SG16 Question 12 met last week in Seoul, South Korea to make progress on the requirements for the Advanced Multimedia System (▲AMS). A lot of progress was made, with requirements coming from several companies and integrated into a single document. While the requirements have largely focused on the terminal equipment thus far, it is very clear that AMS represents a significantly different kind of system than what was delivered with legacy systems like ▲SIP and ▲H.323. The next SG16 meeting at the end of April 2008 will make more progress on requirements, but will also begin to seriously examine system architecture proposals.

Permalink to: Industry Makes Progress on AMS - January 28, 2008