IMS technologies and strategies for next-generation networks

Wally Beck, Senior Director of Marketing, AppTrigger Inc.By now, many of you may have heard the recent buzz around the growing momentum within the service broker market. Service broker solutions have emerged as a result of service providers exploring new innovative ways to manage their application connectivity, application to network interaction and application orchestration across the service layer. What until ...

What’s a little competition among friends? Apparently, for five tech vendors, not much. Aepona, AppTrigger, Convergin, jNetX and OpenCloud have formed the Service Broker Forum, which aims to educate service providers about converged services deployment. Service brokers provide access to resources on any type of network – resources such as service control points, IMS and SIP elements.

GENBAND Inc. is targeting all-IP mobile operator deployments with a new IP gateway, and by adding mobile enhancements to its G9 Converged Gateway and the S3 Session Border Controller. The 14-slot S9 Multimedia S9 IP gateway addresses IMS, FMC and LTE technologies with a big increase in capacity, including signaling bandwidth of up to 12gbps, media bandwidth up to 24gbps ...

The economy is in a tailspin, but that might be good news for IMS and the converged, all-IP, anywhere/anytime, revenue-generating applications it can enable. For instance, the IMS/NGN Forum tells VON.com that there are definite “rumbles in the industry” about AT&T Inc. deploying more IMS in order to leverage its U-verse network for efficient content porting across its wired and ...

Verizon Wireless might be ready to rock and roll on its mobile broadband LTE network now that it has named its network suppliers, but WiMAX pioneer Clearwire Corp. seems unwilling to cede the 4G spotlight for the moment. It issued an official statement in response to Verizon’s announcement that contains more than a touch of attitude, noting that “not all ...