Specifications for Value-Added IMS Network Services Released

­A group of companies have announced the joint development and successful testing of common technical specifications for value-added IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network services.

The technical specifications recently demonstrated by the six companies support deployment of data processing functions, such as image conversion, on the IMS network. The processing functions will also allow companies to develop a variety of application services.

The collaborators are: Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks and Japanese network operator, NTT DoCoMo.

Operators that have already adopted IMS can add these functions to their existing network and realize new services where, for example, a user edits a picture on the network and shares it, or converts a Japanese text message to English on the network before delivering it to the receiver.

The six companies collaborated to set up a network system based on the new specifications and then successfully completed a demonstration test in August.

They added that they are committed to gaining adoption of the specifications by the Rich Communication Suite (RCS) project, a collaborative effort supervised by the GSM Association)that seeks to pave the way for the introduction of commercial IMS-based rich communication services over mobile and, eventually, fixed networks.

Posted to the site on 7th September 2009