New software scales IMS traffic 

Rich Karpinski

Supporting a new service in a test environment with a handful of users is one thing. But what's a carrier to do when it suddenly needs to scale that service across its entire customer base overnight?...

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...

CTIA: Tekelec aligns with HP 

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...

How to stay secure in an IMS world 

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 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 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 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 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 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...

InFocus: The ‘Me’ network for the ‘We’ experience 

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 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: Wily chosen for AVIS Catalyst project 

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: Sun combines new services with cost reductions 

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...

Montreal's IIT hosts OMA testfest 

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 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...

ITU Preview: IMS closer than it appears 

By Carol Wilson

HONG KONG--IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) technology may be closer to implementation that it appears to be, according to the recent testing by the Multi-Service Forum...

Sonus certifiable in rural markets 

By Tim McElligott

Sonus Networks isn’t a stranger to the rural market, but its status is. The company was bestowed with Rural Utilities Service/Rural Development Utilities Program RUS/RDUP acceptance for much of its core IMS-based product line...

IMS has industry support but major gaps 

By Carol Wilson

IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) has been widely accepted as the unifying network architecture of the communications industry but still has “gaping holes and inadequacies” which must be addressed before it is widely adopted, a Yankee Group report concludes...

GMI 2006 declared a success 

By Carol Wilson

A two-week test of IP multimedia subsystem interoperability is concluding this week and participants led by the MultiService Forum today declared the effort successful...

IVR Tech, MetaSwitch team up on AmeriMex 

By Tim McElligott

IVR Technologies and MetaSwitch have teamed up to deliver advanced integrated services to AmeriMex Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier in the southern and eastern U.S. serving the U.S. and Latin American markets...

Siemens puts TDM migration in Genband’s hands 

By Tim McElligott

Siemens Networks LLC said this week it has transferred its Digital Central Office circuit-switch business and 27 employees to long-time technology partner Genband...

Arbor: DDoS attacks increasing, more varied 

By Dan O'Shea

Managed security software vendor Arbor Networks released the results of its second-annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report earlier this week. The survey of 55 service providers from around the world found that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and in particular botnet-related DDoS attacks, continue to rise...

VON: Interoperability top priority at Sonus 

By Tim McElligott

BOSTON--Sonus Networks will leverage the InterOperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire to launch an interoperability certification program around the delivery of SIP-based products. As part of its Open Services Partner Alliance, Sonus will conduct extensive testing with partners’ products...

VON: Empirix all aglow  

By Tim McElligott

BOSTON--Monitoring and test company Empirix threw itself a party this week at VON, but the company had more to celebrate than its technology’s fifteenth birthday and its fifth anniversary as an independent company...

Nortel to use Followap presence server 

By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks is stopping development of its own presence server for its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) portfolio in favor of using that of a third-party vendor, Followap...