Rogers, Ericsson to test HSDPA, IMS
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Newport Networks moves toward strategic stage with SBC functionality
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
IMS: Tearing down the stovepipes
Supercomm '05 shed more light on a complicated yet highly promising architecture, as well as the applications driving its acceptance by service providers...
Event shows VoIP supremacy, but questions sizzle of IMS
Speakers divided on architecture but agree VoIP is taking over telecom...
Nokia lands first IMS convergence deal
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
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...
The infancy of IMS
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...
How IP changes everything (again)
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
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...
IMS marks the spot
A new generation of IMS-enabled applications is promising to expand the scope of location-based wireless services...
