inCode: IMS deployments surging  

By: By Dan O'Shea

Consulting firm inCode Wireless came out with the latest version of its IMS Global Deployments Matrix this week, and the report stated that adoption of IMS architectures by network operators has more than tripled in the 12 months since inCode began tracking the trend....

Sonus finds a jewel in Opal Telecom 

By: By Tim McElligott

Taking advantage of local loop unbundling in the U.K., Carphone Warehouse’s subsidiary, Opal Telecom, will support the formal launch of its parent’s IP-based voice service...

The Net effect of consolidation 

By: By Carol Wilson

Telecom will have a new look as mergers like last week's Nokia/Siemens deal take hold, but is it better?...

Sonus opens an account in Bermuda 

By: By Tim McElligott

TeleBermuda International Ltd. (TBI) said this week it has deployed a complete IP multimedia subsystem-ready architecture from Sonus to support the service offerings of its next-generation network...

COMMUNICASIA: Glenayre teams with End2End for active messaging 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SINGAPORE--Glenayre Technologies is partnering with Europe’s largest content delivery platform provider to promote its new Viscera Active Messaging solution in hopes that End2End can offer the multimedia mailbox solution to carriers in a quick-and-easy bundle....

ABI: $50B in IMS service revenue by 2011  

By: By Dan O'Shea

ABI Research has put out a new study forecasting that network operators implementing IP multimedia subsystem architectures will generate $49.6 billion in service revenue from IMS-based applications by 2011....

Globalcomm: Ixia sells Tekelec on IMS 

By: By Tim McElligott

CHICAGO--Ixia said this week that Tekelec will use its IxVoice test application to verify fixed/mobile convergence voice and messaging solutions implemented on its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture...

Globalcomm: Tekelec targets the IMS core; takes on SMS 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

CHICAGO--Tekelec is turning its expertise in core signaling toward IP multimedia subsystem, unveiling at Globalcomm its version of the technology’s central control element, the call session control function ...

Globalcomm: BEA, IBM release new IMS application servers 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

CHICAGO--BEA Systems and IBM today both unveiled new SIP application servers and other network components targeted at carriers deploying IP multimedia subsystem architectures...

Globalcomm: Motorola’s open server platforms get boost from Siemens 

By: by Tim McElligott

Globalcomm: Ericsson launches IPTV platform 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

CHICAGO--Ericsson signaled its entrance into IPTV today, announcing an end-to-end IP video platform tightly integrated with its market-leading IMS architecture...

Globalcomm: Nortel gets small with softswitch 

By: By Tim McElligott

CHICAGO--Nortel unveiled a new, smaller softswitch this week aimed at the small- to medium-sized service provider market. The Nortel Communication Server 1500 (CS 1500) can be seen at Globalcomm and will begin field trials in the fourth ...

UMA adds supporters, keeps detractors 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The Voice Call Continuity specification of the IP multimedia subsystem standard eventually will allow seamless handoffs of voice calls to support fixed/mobile convergence services...

IMS and ATCA: Brothers in arms 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The IP multimedia subsystem and the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture might seem like similarly nebulous concepts to the uninitiated, but beyond their intimidating labels, IMS and ATCA are both just trying to help...

IMS connects with cable 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Cable TV firms with VoIP visions and wireless wishes may soon take the next step--implementing an IMS architecture...

The rise of the application architect 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

IMS promises to make the creation of new and innovative applications a snap, but application vendors like Comverse caution not to write their roles off so quickly...

Softswitch/media gateway market stays hot 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Just in time for Globalcomm 2006, where numerous softswitch and media gateway solutions will be on display, Dittberner Associates recently reported softswitch/gateway market results for first quarter 2006...

BayPackets proves IMS apps in Intel lab 

By: By Dan O'Shea

IP Multimedia Subsystem vendor BayPackets has integrated its IMS-based Agility SIP Application Server with an AdvancedTCA Telco Server Proof of Concept architecture from Intel, and is running IMS applications in Intel's Modular Communications Platforms (MCP) Solution Labs. ...

IPTV in the big picture 

By: By Carol Wilson

If telcos are going to offer more than a me-too service, then IPTV must become part of the service delivery platform that encompasses IMS and wireless convergence...

Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy  

By: By Ed Gubbins

Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...

Telcordia adds mobile tracking to portfolio 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Telcordia today said it has partnered with location-technology provider NorBelle to add a mobile-to-mobile tracking component to its Maestro line of applications and solutions....

Ericsson launches IMS developers program 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Ericsson, a day in advance of its Capital Market Day event in New York City, has launched an IP Multimedia Subsystem ecosystem as part of its Ericsson Mobility World developers program...

In-Stat: IMS no revenue boon 

By: By Carol Wilson

IP multimedia subsystem technology represents the architecture of the future for service providers, but applications built on IMS may not generate large amounts of new revenue, according to new research from In-Stat...

Lucent lands Telefonica's IPTV platform 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Spain's Telefonica has signed an agreement with U.S. vendor Lucent Technologies that will put ongoing development and deployment of Telefonica's Imagenio IPTV middleware platform, which powers the carrier's IPTV services and is being marketed to other carriers, into Lucent's hands...

Oracle aims at telcos with service delivery platform 

By: By Carol Wilson

Oracle today unveiled a new service delivery platform aimed at increasing its penetration into the telecom service provider market....