Assuring quality post-circuit switching
By: By Tim McElligott
Testing doesn't get simpler when services converge on IP...
AT&T expands Video Share to 160 markets
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today that it has expanded its Video Share product to 160 markets, up from the three announced in June, enabling its wireless users to share live video while on a voice call...
Polycom launches IMS server for conferencing
Polycom today announced the next step in its promised rollout of conferencing services compatible with IP multimedia subsystem architecture, announcing the Proxias application server, a SIP-based system that is built to enable service providers to offer rich-media conferencing on a global, unified communications basis...
NXTcomm: BEA joins Tekelec in Open IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
Following up on a strategic partnership with HP around an open IP multimedia subsystem approach, Tekelec and BEA announced this week at NXTcomm that the two have completed interoperability testing and BEA will join the partnership. ...
Onemax chooses Veraz for IMS/WiMAX
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean broadband wireless operator Onemax has selected softswitch and media gateway vendor Veraz Networks for deployment of an IP multimedia subsystem-over-WiMAX solution...
AppTrigger launches first Application Session Controller
By: By Carol Wilson
A Dallas software company today announced a new network element, designed to help service providers offer existing and new services over multiple access networks, in advance of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) deployment...
Acquisition puts Sonus on edge
By: By Tim McElligott
Two of Sonus Networks' strategic imperatives the last year or so have been to expand its wireless solutions and extend its focus from the network core out to the network edge...
CTIA: Tekelec aligns with HP
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--Tekelec and Hewlett–Packard announced at the Wireless 2007 trade show here an interoperability and marketing partnership focused on accelerating IP multimedia subsystem deployment...
VON: Acme Packet adds Diameter interface for IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Seamus Hourihan, vice president of marketing and product management at Acme Packet, said this week from VON that customers dictate product development at Acme Pack...
How to stay secure in an IMS world
By: By Throop Wilder, Crossbeam Systems
Security is being overlooked in fixed/mobile convergence networks, exposing subscribers and their enterprise networks to new, unseen threats and risks. As IMS is slowly rolled out, it is becoming clear the traditional approach to service-provider security just doesn’t cut it. Read more about the strategies used today and some proposed alternatives...
Sonus development in high gear for low power
By: By Tim McElligott
From 3GSM this week, Sonus Networks said it is developing a suite of products for mobile communications providers designed to deliver voice service and multimedia applications that use low-powered (LP) GSM picocell and femtocell technologies...
Avici gives birth to Soapstone Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a bid to become less reliant on its primary customer, AT&T, core router vendor Avici Systems has created a new business venture aimed at keeping services independent from the technologies of the networks that deliver them...
In the Spotlight: Nortel’s Sita Lowman
By: By Carol Wilson
Sita Lowman is director of core network marketing for Nortel, handling carrier core products for both wireline and wireless networks. In the week before the 3GSM exhibition in Barcelona, she spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about Nortel’s IP multimedia subsystem initiatives and its recent announcement that BEA Systems, IP Unity Glenayre, and Vantrix are new partners in its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Developer Program...
Momentum, baselines key to first IMS Forum plugfest
By: By Tim McElligott
Thirteen vendors and sponsors completed a plugfest for IMS services and applications at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab on Jan. 19 and in doing so set a baseline for testing in future events that will run through 2008...
In the spotlight: Siemens’ Harald Braun
By: By Carol Wilson
Harald Braun brings a high-level energy to any conversation about telecom. As President of Siemens Communications Networks Division, he’s also looking at the big picture, and to kick off 2007 he came up with his own list of seven major trends. He spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson on his “Seven for 2007” list...
IP Unity, Glenayre messaging to combine
By: By Carol Wilson
In a move designed to capitalize on fixed/mobile convergence and increased scale, IP Unity has acquired the Glenayre Messaging division of Glenayre Technologies...
InFocus: The ‘Me’ network for the ‘We’ experience
By: By John Giere, Chief Marketing Officer, Alcatel-Lucent
Teenager years, as we all remember even if we don’t acknowledge, are considered the epitome of the “me” phase in our life before we grow into adulthood. However, recent behavior suggests that we may not “outgrow” this phase when it comes to our communications needs...
ITU: Huawei IMS targets fixed/mobile convergence
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Huawei has unveiled the latest iteration of its IP multimedia subsystem architecture this week at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong, claiming that it is the first IMS platform to fully meet standards set out by both mobile and wireline industry bodies and therefore the perfect architecture for fixed-mobile convergence applications...
TMW: NetScout launches nGenius
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--NetScout Systems announced at the TeleManagement World Americas event here the availability of its nGenius platform, the latest evolution in its performance management offerings. The trade show floor was dotted with performance monitoring companies that are edging into new areas and adding new capabilities to their traditional platforms. ...
TMW: Wily chosen for AVIS Catalyst project
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--CA announced that its Wily Technology division was chosen to provide monitoring solutions for the TeleManagement Forum’s Accelerated VoIP and IMS Services Catalyst project...
ITU: Alcatel-Lucent CMO in the spotlight
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--John Giere, chief marketing officer for Alcatel-Lucent, was literally able to show off his company’s new marketing strategy to the world at ITU Telecom World 2006 this week...
ITU: Sun combines new services with cost reductions
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Sun Microsystems is courting its service provider customers by promising to work more closely with network equipment vendors to both develop new services more quickly and reduce the cost of doing so...
ITU: Huawei chooses Sylantro for global IMS
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Huawei has selected Sylantro Systems as the provider of feature services for hosted VoIP offerings, the two companies announced today...
Montreal's IIT hosts OMA testfest
By: By Dan O'Shea
More than 100 mobile data experts from around the world have converged at the International Institute of Telecommunications in Montreal for an Open Mobile Alliance TestFest focused in part on multi-vendor interoperability of the OMA's IP multimedia subsystem enablers...
ITU: Ericsson, Intel team for laptop UMTS applications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson and Intel today announced an initiative to explore new mobile broadband applications for laptop PCs, in an effort to increase the proliferation of UMTS among this crucial business sector, which so far has been dominated by Wi-Fi...
