inCode: IMS fragmentation to continue 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Service providers investing in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) equipment so far have been mixing and matching network elements from various vendors in pursuing their IMS-compliant architectures, a point that has been noted by several industry analysts. However, inCode Wireless, in its latest IMS Global Deployments Matrix, states that while providers can save costs on a component basis, they may sacrifice the interoperability encouraged by the IMS standard. ...

3GSM: BEA to launch Java-SIP community 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BEA Systems today announced it is creating a developer community to bring IT and telecom applications developers together, easing the transition to the IP multimedia subsystem architecture and other converged services. ...

Netrake becomes Alcatel's UMA OEM 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Netrake, a vendor of session border control and security gateway products, today said the company has been chosen by Alcatel to provide its nCite Security Gateway solution to support Alcatel's fixed-mobile convergence deployments based on the increasingly popular Unlicensed Mobile Access standard...

Empirix takes IMS road show to Europe 

By: By Tim McElligott

Test and monitoring company Empirix launched a multi-city road show in November called the Demystifying IMS Tour that provides pragmatic knowledge for deploying IMS. Next quarter the company begins the tour's European leg....

InFocus: Upgrading your father's AAA 

By: By Mark Denton

Ask anyone in telecommunications and you will be told that the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture represents the future of telecom. The IMS architecture finally paves the way for true telecom convergence because it decouples the subscriber management layer from specific network elements. The same subscriber profile, application profile and policy servers that are applied to a cable network, for example, can also be applied to DSL, Wi-Fi, WiMAX or cellular networks....

Verizon testing Nortel IMS 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Communications is testing Nortel's IP multimedia subsystem architecture in its labs, evaluating the technology for its potential to provide converged voice, data and video services over its new fiber-to-the-premises networks. (Photo: Newscom)...

InFocus: Bringing fixed and mobile together 

By: By Steve Shaw

How will unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology evolve, especially within the framework of the new world of IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architectures? Read more about the necessary convergence of UMA and IMS....

IBM launches IMS program 

By: By Carol Wilson

IBM today launched a suite of IP multimedia subsystem products designed to help telephone companies make the transition from legacy networks to IP-based systems...

InFocus: Building a bridge to the future of telecommunications 

By: By Peter Dragunas

As the telecommunications industry continues to build momentum and competition intensifies among the various players, service providers around the world face a daunting new set of challenges. ...

Samsung targets U.S. with wireless softswitch 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Samsung is retooling its CDMA core network infrastructure in hopes of penetrating the U.S. market with a next-generation platform...

Lucent: Next-gen growth to outpace legacy decline 

By: By Ed Gubbins

After long struggling to grow next-generation technology revenues faster than that from legacy technologies declined, Lucent Technologies executives pointed to a light at the end of the tunnel over the next two years...

MetaSwitch launches system, gains customer 

By: By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS--MetaSwitch announced both a new product and a new customer. CTC Communications, a competitive service provider based in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, will use MetaSwitch’s distributed softswitch to offer hosted business services, the two companies announced today...

Cingular net ready for future shift 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular Wireless is finally executing its next-generation strategy, with a three-market launch of HSDPA and near-future plans to implement IMS...

Fast Forward: Grant Henderson, Convedia 

Telephony's Dan O'Shea recently talked to Grant Henderson, co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and strategy for Convedia, a company that provides media processing functions within IMS architecture, about the functional implications of IMS and the future of this potentially industry-altering concept...

SBC chooses Lucent IMS 

By: By Carol Wilson

A day after Cingular said it will use Lucent Technologies’ IP multimedia subsystem architecture, or IMS, one of its parent companies, SBC Communications, said it also is using the Lucent IMS platform. ...

Cingular chooses Lucent for IMS 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular Wireless today announced it has selected Lucent Technologies as the primary vendor for an IP multimedia subsystem architecture...

IMS no panacea for service creation 

By: By Carol Wilson

Significant challenges remain to establish true service architecture, including near-term demand for revenues...

Rogers, Ericsson to test UMTS/HSDPA and IMS in Toronto 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Canada's Rogers Communications announced last week that it will work with long-time vendor Ericsson on a trial of UMTS and high-speed downlink packet access technology and applications...

Nortel puts faith in service edge 

By: By Vince Vittore

Nortel spent much of it Investor Technology Day this week sketching out a vision of the future networks that looks radically different than today’s architecture but not all that different than most other vendors...

Rogers, Ericsson to test HSDPA, IMS 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Rogers Communications said it will work with long-time vendor Ericsson on a trial of UMTS and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology and applications, as well as a converged IP multimedia mubsystem (IMS) architecture...

Telcordia: Operator business model is dead 

By: By Tim McElligott

At this week’s Fixed Mobile Convergence conference in Chicago, Telcordia’s Grant Lenahan, executive director of wireless mobility and chief strategist, declared in a session on the operational impact of IP multimedia subsystem that the traditional operator business model is dead...

BellSouth’s Denny pours cold water on IMS 

By: By Tim McElligott

It was not by chance that a self-proclaimed IT guy, Mike Denny, senior architect in the Technology Group at BellSouth, addressed today’s Fixed Mobile Convergence conference in Chicago on the implications of IMS on operations and business support systems...

Telcordia conducts a portfolio piece on IMS 

By: By Tim McElligott

With much of the focus around the IP multimedia subsystem architecture being on systems and hardware infrastructure solutions, Telcordia today turned the spotlight on support and service delivery systems for IMS by introducing a portfolio of products called Maestro...

Industry struggles for IMS interop 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Loose standards spark fears of equipment clashes. As vendors rush their IMS-compliant systems to market, interoperability is a tougher achievement...

VON: Verizon on IMS: Wait and see 

By: By Ed Gubbins

BOSTON--Though Verizon is investigating IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architectures, the company has established no time frame for deploying it, executive director Paul Perry said at the Voice on the Net show in Boston Thursday...