Voice Messaging Conformance

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Voice Messaging Conformance

• A Testing Process for VPIM Products
• Overview of Final Version 1.0 - February 1998

2
Our Goal

• Customer confidence that VPIM products are
  conformant and actually do interoperate
  
• A testing conformance process to allow vendors
  to easily do this without a formal test lab
  conformance process

3
3 Approach Philosophy

• Demo Testing
• scenario driven
• Compatibility Assurance
• declaration of support of features
• optional automated and/or reference system
  testing
  
• Interoperability Testing
• between products

4
Compatibility Assurance Process

• VPIM Examples
• audio, fax, simple message, forwarded,etc.
• VPIM Feature Support Table
• vendor completed
• Automated and/or Reference Testing
• optional testing of conformance to features
• Declaration of Compatibility
• written assurance of conformance
• statement, table, optional test results

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Interoperability Assurance Process

• Vendor Self-Testing
• at vendor pace
• use VPIM Test Suite
• Bilateral Testing
• with at least two other compatible vendors
• use VPIM Test Suite
• Declaration of Interoperability
• already declared compatible with VPIM
• statement, test results

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EMA Secretariat

• EMA staff member ??
• send to Glenn.Parsons_at_Nortel.ca for interim
• Registrar responsibility
• coordinate declaration submission
• inform vendor of process, send forms, collect
  completed declarations
  
• publishing of declarations test results
• organization of web page, posting material

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Boot Camp

• Crash Course on VPIM Testing
• First session
• Nov 10th in Europe? Teleconference?
• Agenda
• Conformance and Test Process reviews
• Declaration of Conformance (Table of VPIM feature
  support)
  
• Declaration of Interoperability (Tests
  scenarios)
  
• Inter-vendor test scheduling
• Posting/publishing of results methods
• Actual testing
• Scheduled to follow?

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Schedule

• Publication of Final Test Plan - Feb 1998
• Site ready for result posting
• Initial round of Testing - April 1998
• Declaration of Compatibility Interoperabilitypo
  sted from Nortel, Centigram Applied Voice
  
• Boot Camp - Fall 1998
• Training on testing process
• Second round of Testing - Fall 1998
• Scheduling of bilateral testing
• 2 week slots assigned to vendors

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Vendor Status

• Vendor Product Status
• Active Voice ?
• Alcatel ?
• Applied Voice ?
• Brite ?
• Centigram ?
• Comverse ?
• Glenayre ?
• Lucent IMA-ML ?
• Intuity Interchange ?
• Mediagate iPost ?
• Nortel Meridian Mail Ready
• Norstar Ready
• ReadyCom ?
• Siemens ?
• Technomen ?
• UNIFI ?