Articles tagged with: Ims and Fixed Mobile Convergence
IMS Holds Considerable Potential for Test Equipment Vendors
IP multimedia subsystem (ims) technology remains an important part of the seamless mobility between mobile telephony and fixed wireless. Industry-wide adoption of ims will enable service providers to expand their service offerings to a wider range of market segments, while allowing subscribers to experience a level of integration not witnessed in previous networking technologies. more
Related Tags: voip, capex, 3gpp2, interoperability, triple-play
Fixed Mobile Faces Problems Without Increased Vendor Co-Operation
Informa Telecoms & Media is forecasting that there will be 170 million Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) subscribers by 2012 generating US$33.4 billion of revenue, but caution that without an increase in cooperation between all of the value chain players involved the industry faces an uphill struggle. more
Related Tags: femtocell, fmc, opex
Nokia Wins Turkish Network Contract
Nokia and Turkish mobile operator AVEA have signed a three-year framework agreement for the deployment of the Nokia MSC Server 3GPP compliant mobile softswitch. The Nokia softswitch will be central to AVEA's plans to modernize its network by creating Turkey's first Next Generation Network (NGN). more
Related Tags: avea, capex, core-network, 3gpp, next-generation-network, push-to-talk
GSM Contract Expansion for The Bahamas
Nortel has been awarded a GSM expansion contract in the Bahamas from the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC). The contract will also allow the operator to triple the capacity of its wireless network, extending service from Abaco and Bimini to include all the Bahamas' family islands by the end of September 2006. more
Related Tags: nortel, bahamas-telecommunications-company, btc
Israeli Operator Orders Fixed/Mobile Platform
Israel's iDEN operator, MiRS has ordered a core convergence switching solution from Tekelec. The solution enables MiRS' transition to the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (ims) architecture and enables next-generation capabilities, including fixed mobile convergence (FMC) and hosted session initiation protocol (SIP) services. Tekelec's ims architecture drives switching for both MiRS' entire mobile device line and SIP-based clients, and it supports the execution of common network applications. more

