SBC Communications selected Lucent Technologies' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) platform to integrate its wireline and wireless services. The Lucent IMS platform, consisting of an array of IMS-related hardware and software products and applications, will enable SBC companies to share next-generation customizable IP-based services and applications across different consumer devices. SBC expects to begin introducing services enabled by the IMS platform in late 2006 or early 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.
On Monday, Cingular Wireless announced that it had selected Lucent's IMS portfolio and integration services.
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 | Using the IMS Architecture for Service Enabling Next Generation Networks |
| To stave off competition, customer churn, and rebound from the decreasing rates for local and long distance service, service providers are looking to evolve or overlay their current networks to enable new revenue generating converged and next-generation services. The IMS architecture supports a wide range of services enabled by the flexibility of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It can support multiple application servers providing traditional telephony services and non-telephony services such as instant messaging, push-to-talk, video streaming, multimedia messaging, etc. Here is an overview. | |
