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Shanghai - April 2008
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| MSF Q2 2008 Techinical Meeting in Shanghai, China sponsored by China Mobile |
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| Julianne Fitzpatrick (AMS) and Zhang Hao (China Mobile) enjoy dinner cruise hosted by China Mobile |
MSF Members on the Dinner Cruise on the HuangPu River |
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| MSF members on the dinner cruise hosted by China Mobile |
Mike Bick, Stephen Price & Ashley Wright enjoy views of Shanghai on the cruise. |
Amsterdam - July 2007
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| Kristin
Harris (UNH-IOL), Dan Warren (Vodafone), Chris Gallon (Fujitsu) and
Richard Dagnall (Iometrix) discuss certification and interoperability
during the MSF Educational Session Certification and Interoperability:
The Future of the MSF |
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| MSF
Vice President Jim McEachern moderates the discussion. |
Kristin
Harris and Dan Warren |
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| Dan
Warren and Chris Gallon |
Chris
Gallon and Richard Dagnall |
Montreal - April 2007

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| MSF
members listen to a presentation at the 2007 Q2 meeting in Montreal |
MSF
VIce President Jim McEachern (Nortel) welcomes members to the Nortel-sponsored
membership dinner at Le Cabaret du Roy. |

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| Naseem
Khan, Satoshi Miyayama, Frank Suraci, Arye Ephrath and Akira Kurokawa
at the membership dinner in Montreal. |
RIchard
Kaczmarek, Tom Taylor, Anil Gupta and Bhumip Khasnabish at the membership
dinner in Montreal. |

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| Chris
Gallon, Roger Ward, Jim McEachern and Mike Bick at the membership
dinner in Montreal |
Overhead
view of MSFers enjoying the Nortel-sponsored membership dinner at
Le Cabaret du Roy. |
Spring VON - March 2007

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| MSF
Pavilion at Spring VON 2007 |
Bernard
Bear shows off the MSF program for Spring VON 2007 |

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| ETRI
showcased a demonstration in the MSF Pavilion at Spring VON. |
Chanh
Phung chairs the panel "IMS Soup: What's in the Mix" with
Gordon Beith and Betsey Covell in the MSF Theater. |

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| Jim
McEachern presents "ENUM for Dummies" in the MSF Theater. |
Pierre
Lynch presents "A-IMS: What's in a Name?" in the MSF Theater. |

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| Martin
Taylor presents "Emergence of IMS Applications" in the MSF
Theater. |
Richard
Dagnall presents "Certification Testing: Case Study of a Success
Story" in the MSF Theater. |

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| John
Wullert presents "Emergence of IMS Applications in MSF Architecture." |
Seamus
Hourihan presents "IMS: Right or Wrong." |

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| Gordon
Beith presents during the panel session "IMS Deployment: Where,
When, Why & How." |
Jim
McEachern, Gordon Beith and Andy Huckridge take questions from the
audience in the MSF Theater. |

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| Andy
Huckridge presents during the panel session "IMS Deployment:
Where, When, Why & How." |
Olov
Schelén presents "GMI 2006 Deep Dive: QoS." |
NetEvents Evian - February 2007

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| MSF
President Roger Ward and MSF Interoperability Working Group Chair
Andy Huckridge participate in a panel debate session at NetEvents
in Evian, France. |
Hong Kong - January 2007

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| Ken
Mills, David Hutton, Claire Mandeville, Ian Jenkins, Mike Bick and
Kari Revier at dinner in Hong Kong. |
Michael
Owens, Ken Mills, Dave Hutton, Claire Mandeville, Ian Jenkins and
Mike Bick in Hong Kong. |

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| Daytime
view from the top of The Peak. |
Nighttime
view from the top of The Peak. |
Vancouver - June 2006

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| Stuart Walker leads the Architecture Working Group meeting in Vancouver. |
Members checked out the record number of participants signed up for GMI 2006. |

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| The meeting was packed as MSF began the run-up to GMI 2006. |
Nagoya - October 2005
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| Koichi Suda speaks on "What Carriers Need From Vendors and Standard Bodies to Accomplish Their NGN Vision" at the NTT-sponsored carriers program at the MSF meeting in Nagoya. |
Kumiko Sudo, Eun-Ho Choi, Byung-Sun Lee, Naseem Khan, Tatsuro Murakami, Roger Ward, Mark Carroll and Paul Drew |

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| Technical Committee Chair, Avri Doria, addresses the membership in Nagoya. |
Ottawa - July 2005

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| Jim
McEachern and a colleague from Nortel demonstrates IMS technology
at the MSF's tutorial and social in Vancouver. |
Cathi
Lane and Andy Jones at the MSF meeting in Ottawa. |
SUPERCOMM - June 2005

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| MSF President Roger Ward greets visitors to the MSF booth. |
Erick Sasaki and Hirofumi Yokoi of NTT pose in front of the MSF booth. |

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| Roger Ward gets ready to film a segment on MSF for the Discovery Channel |
Mamoru Oishi and Erick Sasaki presented a video showcasing the use of MSF architecture in NTT's network |
Broadband World Forum - June 2005

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| Panelists from the plenary session at Broadband World Forum in Yokohama, Japan:
Hisashi Tada, Vice-Chair TMF (NEC); Alain Le Roux, Chair, ETSI TISPAN (France Telecom); Chae-Sub Lee, Chair, ITU-t SG 13 NGN Focus Group (Korea Telecom);
Roger Ward, MSF President (BT); Kiyoshi Miyazaki, Editor in Chief, Nikkei Business Publications
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San Francisco - February 2005

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| Neil
Anderson (Spirent), Jim McEachern (Nortel) and Mark Carroll (Cisco)
at the Cisco-sponsored wine tasting event (joint with the MFA) at
First Crush in San Francisco |
MSF
Technical Committee Chair Avri Doria (ETRI) and MFA VP of Marketing
Gary Leonard (Riverstone Networks) |
Atlanta - November 2004

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| Brian
Down (Marconi), Wayne Cutler (Marconi), Dave Francisco (Siemens) and
Andy Huckridge (Spirent) |
Kouji
Sato (Mitsubishi Electric), Tatsuro Murakami (NTT), Satoshi Miyayama
(NTT) and Yasuyuki Matsuoka (NTT) |

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| Peter
Chang (Cisco) and Brian Tolly (GMI 2004 Technical Coordinator) |
MA&E
Vice Chair Jason Grooms (Leapstone) and MA&E Chair Neil Anderson
(Spirent) |
Fall VON - October 2004

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| MSF
President Roger Ward (BT) explains the GMI 2004 network at the MSF's Birds of a
Feather Session. Other panelists included Joe Glynn (Qwest), Jim McEachern
(Nortel), Chris Daniel (Leapstone), Mark Carroll (Cisco) and Neil Anderson
(Spirent). |
Joe Glynn
(Qwest) address attendees at the MSF's Birds of a Feather session at Fall VON
2004. The MSF took this session as an opportunity to discuss the results
of GMI 2004, which was completed the previous week. |
GMI 2004 - October 2004

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Participants at KT Technology Lab in Daejeon, South Korea take a moment to
stretch before returning to testing. |
Participants at BTexact Technologies Centre in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK work
to test MSF implementation agreements. |
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Participants at Qwest Labs in Dublin, Ohio check equipment during the GMI
2004 testing. |
Participants at Qwest Labs in Dublin, Ohio relax at dinner on the evening
before the last day of testing. |

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GMI 2004 participants at
KT's lab in Daejeon address members of the press. |
Singapore - January 2004

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| Thomas Borrel (Navtel Communications) and Egied Dekoster (Belgacom)
enjoy the Navtel-sponsored membership dinner on January 27 in Singapore. |
Andy
Huckridge (Spirent Communications), Michael Condry (Intel) and Chris Gallon
(Fujitsu) at the Navtel-sponsored membership dinner. |

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Andy Huckridge addresses MSF members at the Spirent-sponsored luncheon on
January 28. |
Technical
Coordinator Brian Tolly gets members fired up about participating in GMI 2004 at
the closing Plenary on January 29. |
MSF Presents The Carriers Program - October 2003

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Bill Myrtle (Telus), Peter Willis (BT), Hongbeom Jeon (KT), Tadanobu Okada
(NTT), Joe Glynn (Qwest) and Sungtae Cha (SK Telecom) participate in the
Carriers Program at the MSF's 5th Anniversary Meeting in Vancouver. |
Carriers Program
panelists respond to questions posed by moderator Scott Raynovich of Light
Reading. |
ITU-T 2003 Informal Forum Summit - July 2003

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| MSF President Roger Ward (second from right) dines with ITU-TSB Director Houlin Zhao at the ITU-T 2003 Informal Forum Summit in San Francisco. |
SUPERCOMM - June 2003

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| The MSF at SUPERCOMM 2003 in Atlanta. |
Orlando, Florida - January 2003

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| Guy Grindborg, Chris Daniel, and Pieter Poll toast to the success of GMI 2002. |
Jeju, South Korea - October 2002

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| Ice sculpture from the Samsung-sponsored Membership Dinner in Jeju. |
Dr. Young Cheol Oh of Samsung welcomes MSF Members to Jeju during the Membership Dinner. |

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| MSF Members dance with the entertainers at the Membership Dinner in Jeju. |
MSF Members at the Samsung-sponsored Membership Dinner. |
SUPERCOMM - June 2002

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| MSF MAE Chair Guy Grindborg talks about the MSF Release 1 Architecture Guidelines at SUPERCOMM 2002 in Atlanta. |
Rome, Italy - April 2002

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| MSF members listen during a session at the 2002 Q2 Technical Committee Meeting in Rome. |
SuperNet - January 2002

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| MSF was an Associate Sponsor of SuperNet 2002 in Santa Clara. |
MSF Board Member Brian Down
(Marconi) explains the MSF Architecture. |
Kyoto, Japan - November 2001

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| After lunch at Shozan, the MSF group stops for a picture. |

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