Newport Networks moves toward strategic stage with SBC functionality
By: By Tim McElligott
U.K.-based Newport Networks, another venture of entrepreneur and Chairman Terry Matthews, launched new products for its session border controller line this week that are IMS/TISPAN-ready and aimed at the Tier 1 carriers...
VON: EarthLink to Sonus--We want your VoBB
By: By Tim McElligott
EarthLink has decided to go with Sonus Networks’ voice-over-broadband solutions to help deliver its consumer VoIP offering...
VON: Lucent debuts residential IMS/SIP feature server
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Lucent Technologies introduced a new feature server for residential telephony applications at the Voice on the Net trade show in Boston Tuesday, citing a shift in the demand for SIP-based IMS features from enterprise to residential users...
Wireless displacement swamping convergence
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless displacement of wireline services is massive trend in the U.S. that is swamping any service provider push to fixed-mobile convergence, according to a Yankee Group study being released at the 3G CDMA Americas Conference this week....
Analysts do the math on IMS
By: By Dan O'Shea
Someone out there must like math because without it, there would be no math teachers. Nor would there be analysts to provide us with market research statistics....
IMS market nears $1.2 billion
By: By Dan O'Shea
IP multimedia subsystem as a next-generation architectural concept has generated as much confusion as it has hype, but a study from Venture Development Corp. may provide some clarification on the former and some validation for the latter...
Analyst: Carriers mostly taking best-of-breed IMS approach
By: By Dan O'Shea
In its most recent monthly assessment of global IP multimedia subsystem deployments, inCode Wireless suggested that most carriers are taking a best-of-breed approach to IMS equipment, going with who they perceive is the best vendor for a specific IMS-compliant component...
Sonus reports strong 2Q
By: By Tim McElligott
Cleared by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and fueled by growth in its wireless and foreign markets, Sonus Networks this week reported positive growth for its second quarter...
In the Spotlight: CopperCom's Manuel Vexler
By: By Tim McElligott
Today, softswitch vendor CopperCom appointed Manuel Vexler as its chief technology officer. He answered a few questions about his new role and the industry for Telephony’s Tim McElligott...
VDC: IMS market $2.6 billion-plus by 2008
Venture Development Corp., addressing a relative dearth of quantification of the market for IP multimedia subsystem-related infrastructure and equipment, has announced new research suggesting the opportunity will exceed $2.6 billion by 2008...
Event shows VoIP supremacy, but questions sizzle of IMS
By: By Glenn Bischoff
Speakers divided on architecture but agree VoIP is taking over telecom...
IMS: Tearing down the stovepipes
By: By Jason Meyers
Supercomm '05 shed more light on a complicated yet highly promising architecture, as well as the applications driving its acceptance by service providers...
Nokia lands first IMS convergence deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO--Nokia this week named its first commercial contract for a converged network based on IP multimedia subsystem technology, announcing an agreement with Finnish MVNO Saunalahti for specific IMS elements that will bridge wireline, GSM and Wi-Fi networks...
IMS getting universal support
By: By Joe McGarvey
In these days of rabid polarization, where even the facts seem to have two sides, it's comforting to know that there are still some things that nearly everyone can agree on...
Telecom's IMS discourse
The IP multimedia subsystem is an IP-based architectural concept, championed in the wireless world by the 3GPP standards group but rapidly gaining the...
IMS marks the spot
By: By Jason Ankeny
A new generation of IMS-enabled applications is promising to expand the scope of location-based wireless services...
How IP changes everything (again)
By: By Dan O'Shea
A look at how the IP multimedia subsystem architecture is shaking the network foundations of the rapidly converging wireless and wireline worlds...
VoIP's place in the IMS design
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With IP coming to wireless, VoIP will play a role in the overall scheme of things--but not as quickly as it has in the wireline arena...
The infancy of IMS
By: By Jason Meyers
The architecture known as the IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, is at a critical stage in its development. It's one of those emerging technology areas that is not truly or fully understood by the vast majority of the industry...
The IMS diet: Filling the appetite for multimedia services
By: By Mark Whittier
Consumers’ appetite for advanced, feature-rich communications applications has grown increasingly insatiable. The user’s diet has become one of increasingly rich mixed media: text messaging and mobile gaming with an extra portion of push-to-talk on the side. For today’s Epicureans, not only is better quality on the requirement list, but so are lower costs...
Lucent partners with BayPackets on service delivery
By: By Tim McElligott
Lucent Technologies will begin integrating BayPackets service delivery platforms into its portfolio of IMS-related solutions ...
InFocus: Why service providers should move now to IMS
By: By John Marinho, Lucent Technologies
Moving to IMS now offers both wireless and wireline service providers significant long-term benefits...
BroadSoft goes mobile
By: By Jason Meyers
NEW ORLEANS--BroadSoft made its first official foray into the wireless market this week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless 2005 show, lending its voice over IP expertise to its effort to expand into mobile carrier networks...
Ericsson wins piece of Sprint’s IMS build
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW ORLEANS--Lucent Technologies today lost its exclusive claim to the only U.S. IP multimedia subsystem contract as Ericsson declared it had not only won a piece of the Sprint IMS build, but would also act as systems integrator for the entire project...
