Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Alcatel claims to have achieved a world first: it has combined two of the hottest technologies in telecoms to deliver IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based services over a WiMAX radio access network.
Alcatel says its IMS solution connected over three different access technologies: DSL, 3G/UMTS and WiMAX. According to Alcatel "This demonstration clearly showed that the IMS promise of rich multimedia services delivered over any kind of access is now a reality. As a consequence, early WiMAX adopters will instantly be able to communicate with all of their friends and associates connected via DSL or 3G/UMTS worldwide."
The demonstration scenario included typical IMS services such as community management functions combined with audio-video and data messaging, as well as video telephony, push-to-speak and push-to-show.
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is a standardised framework, initially specified for mobile networks and then extended to fixed networks, for providing IP-based telecommunications services, independent of the access technology used
IMS is seen as a key technology for the future converged all IP network. According to market researcher, In-Stat, which has just released a new study into IMS, says it "believes that IMS provides a unifying vision for the future of telecommunications...IMS is a revolutionary vision for the future of the telecommunications industry, leading to new multimedia services, new network architectures, new business models and relationships, and new end-user devices with new capabilities."
In the long term, In-Stat says, "all telecommunications services (voice services, business networking services, the Internet, IPTV) will be provided through IMS...[It] will deliver the 'Holy Grail' of convergence of access to multimedia services/applications across any end-user device that all service providers are seeking to offer their customers in the future."
However, In-Stat cautions that "providers have a long list of challenges facing them that must be overcome to fully migrate to a converged network architecture for their entire wireline and wireless businesses."
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