IMS News
NSN revs subscriber data platform
Nokia Siemens Networks this week released a new version of its subscriber data management platform that introduces a new common data model that makes it easier for service providers to aggregate user data and profiles and deliver new customized services...
Verizon services platform supports open dev effort
Tomorrow’s networks require and Verizon is building a converged services delivery infrastructure that will minimize network costs supporting more open development approaches...
Getting the Message on Market Size
Service providers often are encouraged to chase new markets such as content and advertising. But a larger, unappreciated and still-growing market already...
Alcatel-Lucent CMO: How we get there from here
While the CEO didn’t delve too deeply into the specifics of that aspect of the company’s strategy in last week’s presentation, the company’s chief marketing officer, Tim Krause, provided more detail in an interview...
CMO details Alcatel-Lucent's strategy, future vision
Last week, Alcatel-Lucent’s new chief executive officer spelled out a new strategy for the equipment vendor....
Service brokers link legacy, NGN
Goodness knows we don’t need another IMS/NGN product category, but service providers are finding they do need additional application-layer functionality...
Verizon sees IPTV-over-IMS progress
Verizon Communications, whose FioS video service notably is not a full IPTV deployment, said today a recent global demonstration of IPTV-over-IMS demonstrated the promise of the technology for its own network...
AppTrigger ties new services to old networks
In the past, AppTrigger has positioned its so-called application session controller – which sits between new IP and legacy networks – as a way to enable existing, revenue-producing apps to run on new IP-based networks....
NGN/IMS Forum report: IMS coming, just not as expected
At the risk of being accused of protesting too much, the NGN/IMS Forum nonetheless saw the need this week to release the IMS NGN Forum report card...
Management World: NEC, NetCracker talk post-acquisition plans
ORLANDO – With the formal closure of the deal not even a month old, executives from NEC and NetCracker used the Management World show to talk about plans to tackle the market together...
IMS: It means something but what?
One thing last month's Global Multiservice Interoperability event proved is that everyone has an opinion on where IP multimedia subsystem is going and how to get there....
A Whole New Testing Ballgame
Maybe because it was fall and the World Series was in the air, but something led Mu Dynamics' Adam Stein to pull out a baseball analogy to describe the state of next-generation network testing....
Sprint's real-world IMS: FMC, yes; IP trunking, not yet
Operator releases second fixed mobile convergence service tapping its IMS network, but other upcoming services bypass IMS altogether – at least for now...
NGN spending pulls back, though hopeful spots remain
Cisco, Sonus see deep declines; SBC vendor Acme Packet stays course citing ROI-driven deployments...
HP brings NonStop to blade platform
HP today released a new carrier-grade server platform that for the first time marries the high-availability capabilities of its NonStop line of servers with its more modular, low-power consumption blade platforms....
Alcatel-Lucent’s new CEO vows big overhaul
Alcatel-Lucent's new chief executive officer promised sweeping changes today during his first quarterly earnings call at the helm of the struggling megavendor....
GMI spotlights work to be done linking IMS, IPTV
The news from the Global MultiService Interoperability (GMI) test here wasn’t all positive, but it was all good....
Plugfests plug along, intercarrier focus up next
The newly combined NGN/IMS Forum continues interoperability testing, with its next event scheduled for January....
Industry Perspective: Glenn Lurie, president of AT&T emerging devices
As AT&T seeks to expand its wireless penetration, the tier-one operator is looking outside of mobile phones....
Acme details IMS deployments
SBC product, though not defined in IMS specs, playing key role in deployments, vendor claims...
IMS, NGN forums merge, reflecting IMS travails
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments may be notoriously slow to hit the launch pad, but that hasn’t slowed the IMS Forum’s unfailing advocacy of the industry’s end-target technology architecture....
Financial media respond to economic crisis with mobile platforms
Stockstream teams with Reuters to launch mobile streaming news, data, quotes...
Verizon CTO on in-home LTE, IPTV migration and more
Mark Wegleitner, Verizon Communications’ chief technology officer, recently spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins on a range of topics, including the transition to IPTV...
Consumers want networked devices -- but whose network?
Tech-savvy consumers would like to have a single networked service to support their many digital devices but they are also demanding a high level of customer service...
DesignArt shoots for sub-$100 femtocell mark in WiMAX
Integrated chip cuts down manufacturing costs, but lower prices depend on volumes still unsupported by WiMAX industry...
