GenBand buys BayPackets
By: By Dan O'Shea
GenBand, continuing its transformation from being a VoIP media gateway company to delivering multiple products, announced this morning that it has acquired BayPackets in a deal that will bring GenBand new expertise and products at the IP multimedia subsystem applications layer...
Sonus pads lead in gateway market
By: By Tim McElligott
Adding 13 new customers this year has helped Sonus Networks build a 32% market share to lead the worldwide carrier packet voice market, according to a report issued today by Synergy Research Group...
Feeling left out by A-IMS? Not Ericsson
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vendor giant Ericsson has more IP multimedia subsystem contract wins--19 as of earlier this summer--and trials in progress--at least 40--than any other major infrastructure vendor...
A-IMS won't change softswitch market goals
By: By Tim McElligott
IMS, the IP multimedia subsy - IMS Technologystem standard from 3GPP, has been a godsend for ailing network equipment-makers. No new standard will change that...
A-IMS breaks Verizon’s silence
By: By Dan O'Shea
While Cingular Wireless, Sprint and other mobile carriers around the world have long spoken of their intentions and goals for deploying IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture, Verizon Wireless—and other units of its corporate parent, for that matter—stayed relatively quiet, not even publicly committing to trials or naming vendors...
UPDATE: Verizon Wireless team touts A-IMS
By: By Dan O'Shea
Industry observers who thought the IP multimedia subsystem concept was the latest in a long line of well-intended but generally convoluted technology standards can now size up Advances to IMS (A-IMS), an evolutionary reference document compiled over the last year by Verizon Wireless and several of its vendor partners...
LongBoard eyes mobile multimedia roaming
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and other mobile multimedia services may be fairly new on the scene, but expectations for service quality and continuity already are being set. LongBoard, a Santa Clara, Calif., vendor that recently has focused on how to deliver seamless roaming for fixed/mobile converged voice services, today announced a new platform to enable roaming for mobile video and other multimedia applications...
Comverse to broker messaging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Comverse is currently developing a next-generation application called the Message Broker, which is designed to take all of the disparate forms of messaging on a carrier's network and route them through a single box, allowing e-mail to become text messages, multimedia messages to become voice mail and any other combination a carrier can think of....
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...
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: 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
