Airvana and Alcatel-Lucent, together have annouced, that the two companies will develop a CDMA/EV-DO femtocell platform-incorporating IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Under a new development agreement, Airvana will enhance its femtocell offerings with new interfaces to enable integration with Alcatel-Lucent’s IMS core.
This agreement builds on demonstrations of combined, femto-based, in-building solutions by Alcatel-Lucent and Airvana at the CTIA Wireless 2008 trade show and exhibition in Las Vegas earlier this year.
“Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership and innovation in CDMA and IMS, as well as our end-to-end engineering, integration and delivery capabilities nicely complement the work Airvana is doing in developing the femto air interface and gateway,” said Mike Iandolo, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA Network activities. “We look forward to using the respective strengths of our two companies to deliver a high-quality solution that will demonstrate the benefits of the femto deployment model and unlock the value of converged services for their customers.”
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- August 16th, 2007
- 7:14 am
Nearly 80 percent of service provider respondents taking part in a study by Infonetics Research say they plan to offer fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services by April 2008, a sharp rise vs the number planning to offer FMC services this year. According to the study, service providers see the two main benefits of offering FMC services as increasing ARPU and keeping traffic within the network. Over half of service providers interviewed also expect to have a full IMS solution deployed in at least some part of their network by 2010, but a large number say they have no plans to deploy a full IMS solution. Operational expenditure saving remains an important driver to deploy IMS, according to the study. Some providers will never completely migrate to next generation voice for access, Class 4, or Class 5.
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TerreStar Networks Inc. has selected Alcatel-Lucent to supply a next generation solution for a significant test as TerreStar prepares to build an integrated mobile satellite and land-based communications network in North America, believed to be the first of its kind using the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to deliver universal access and personalized services over standard wireless devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
For the lab trial, Alcatel-Lucent will provide an IMS service delivery architecture that can enable TerreStar’s service provider customers to rapidly develop and integrate communications applications into the next generation network. TerreStar and its channel partners will test the ability of this new platform to help provide some of the fastest service provider response in the industry to new commercial market opportunities through rapid provisioning and deployment of new applications.
TerreStar, which has begun deploying its network for commercial launch in 2008 expects to operate as a carrier’s carrier, providing integrated next generation terrestrial and satellite mobility services to communications services providers¡ªsuch as wireless carriers, satellite vendors, wireless operators, and electric and telephony cooperatives¡ªand also providing services directly to companies and government entities.
“This type of innovative solution helps ensure that we can rapidly deliver the on-demand services over a mobile, ubiquitous next-generation satellite and land network that commercial service providers and enterprises need,” said Dennis Matheson, CTO at TerreStar.
“We are excited to work with TerreStar in helping transform communications in North America. Alcatel-Lucent’s leadership and experience in IMS-based services, innovation and operational capabilities can help TerreStar move swiftly along its path to deploy the first integrated satellite and land mobile broadband network and to bring ubiquitous mobile IP applications and services to North America,” said Cindy Christy, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s North American business.
Alcatel-Lucent’s solution for TerreStar will include key elements of its IMS portfolio including IMS session controller, consolidated subscriber management system, IMS media server, presence server and IMS application server. The combined capabilities can allow TerreStar to deliver an advanced set of services with multiple flexible quality of service options including: location based services which use presence technology to determine whether a person is available on the network, “push-to” technology that enables the convergence of voice, push-to-talk-over-cellular and push-to-view, to create personalized, presence-based services.
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The Irish Ministry for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has established a Euro2.45m research programme for the development of mobile data services.
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Exit Games and Vivendi Games Mobile have announced an agreement to collaborate on next-generation mobile games. Exit Games’ Neutron technology platform will be used to deliver next-generation mobile gaming features including in-game voice, application wake-up, and advanced presence to Vivendi Games Mobile’s multiplayer portfolio.
Vivendi Games Mobile will initially leverage the Neutron technology in the latest version of Navy Battle, incorporating IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) capabilities to drive enhanced user options, such as VoIP, and other integrated data and voice features, allowing players to engage each other in turn-based naval combat.
Community features for Navy Battle, powered by Neutron, will include: in-game voice – allowing players to chat with opponents while playing against each other; application wake-up – automatically ‘wakes-up’ the mobile phone if someone on the user’s ‘friends’ list challenges them to a game; and advanced presence – a virtual ‘buddy’ list allowing players to see what their friends are playing and enabling them to send friends an invite to play.
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Airvana-Alcatel to develop CDMA femtocell together (US)
