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Cicero Launches Rich Communication Client for Mobile Devices
Cicero Networks (News - Alert) has released its converged rich communication client for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices. The company states that this is the world’s first, fully integrated solution for mobile voice, presence, messaging, and video. CiceroPhone 2.0 provides operators with a simple to use client designed to enhance wireless services using existing IP-based and next generation IMS networks. By adding this functionality, CiceroPhone users can make voice and video calls and chat to their online buddies, at the same time. Underpinning this experience is the ability to roam across multiple networks — WiFi (News - Alert), 2G, 3G, LTE, WiMAX — without any disruption.
www.ciceronetworks.com

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Aventure Selects TaquaWorks to Deliver Enhanced Voice Services in Rural Areas
Taqua and BroadSoft (News - Alert) have announced that Iowa-based Aventure Communications Technology has selected the two companies’ TaquaWorks solution. This network transformation solution was chosen to replace Aventure’s existing Class 4/5 softswitch and deliver enhanced voice services to rural subscribers over a three-state region. TaquaWorks is designed to be a tightly integrated communications solution that includes the Taqua (News - Alert) 7000 Switching System (T7000) and BroadSoft’s BroadWorks suite of advanced voice applications. The TaquaWorks solution set is being integrated into Aventure’s wireless broadband Internet service offering in order to provide state-of-the-art voice and data communications services to rural subscribers in northwestern Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska.
www.taqua.com
www.broadsoft.com

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Alcatel-Lucent announced that TELUS has selected ReachView Technologies, an Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) company, to deploy IBM Tivoli Netcool software into its network. With this deployment, TELUS becomes Alcatel-Lucent’s 100th customer for the Netcool software. This Next Generation Service Management project is designed to enable TELUS to further consolidate its service assurance architecture to better manage the customer experience. The enhanced capabilities directed to customer service management across national service offerings including data, IP, and voice, ultimately contribute to more rapid deployment of product offerings with greater reliability.
www.alcatel-lucent.com
www.telus.com
www.ibm.com/tivoli

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Pyramid Research: IMS Standards Will Reach Pivotal Stability During 2009
Pyramid Research expects that IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) standards will reach a pivotal level of stability sometime in 2009, and that IMS release 7 and 8 will mark the first stage in this process. The findings come from the report IMS Market Opportunities: From Standardization to Implementation published by Pyramid. The report concluded that these service needs, and the long-term strategies that underlie them, will ultimately drive IMS sales, which in turn is expected to spur a wave of new products between 2009 and 2010 that will remove service providers’ barriers to implementation.
www.pyramidresearch.com
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Ericsson to Boost Brasil Telecom (News - Alert) Network
Ericsson has announced that it has reached a deal with Brasil Telecom for its WCDMA/HSPA network and integration of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The agreement is expected to help Brasil Telecom increase its network capacity to handle higher traffic and also offer advanced broadband and multimedia services. Under the contract, Ericsson (News - Alert) will deploy the WCDMA/HSPA radio access network in five states of Brazil and will also serve as the exclusive supplier for 2G/3G common core network. Ericsson also will also manage training and support services.
www.ericsson.com
www.brasiltelecom.com.br

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TelcoBridges (News - Alert), Alox To Scale SK Telecom Ring Back Solution
TelcoBridges and Alox Inc. have announced that they are working together to scale SK Telecom’s Ring Back Tone system, in a manner that meets current operators’ demand and also provides added capacity to address SK Telecom’s (News - Alert) future growth needs. The combination of Alox’s application software with TelcoBridge’s hardware, is designed to enable a new and substantially larger Ring Back Tone system to SK Telecom. SK Telecom’s new Integrated Color-Ring Back Tone System (iCRBT) replaces a previous system that had reached its limits. The new system provides up to 256 E1s of capacity per system, enabling SK Telecom to effectively compete with other mobile operators offering similar services.
www.telcobridges.com
www.alox.com
www.sktelecom.com

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Nortel, Nokia Siemens (News - Alert) Lead Media Gateway (News - Alert)/Softswitch Market
Worldwide next-generation voice equipment sales totaled $985 million in 1Q08, down 12 percent from the previous quarter, but up 17 percent year-on-year, according to a new report from market research firm Infonetics Research (News - Alert). The healthy year-over-year increase indicates service providers continue to invest in VoIP equipment as part of their long term migration from circuit switched to packet telephony. Nokia Siemens (News - Alert) Networks gained five points in the combined worldwide media gateway and softswitch segment of the carrier VoIP market in 1Q08 from 4Q07, while Nortel (News - Alert) is down two points. The market share shifts bring Nortel — the perennial front runner in the worldwide carrier VoIP market — and Nokia Siemens within one point of each other for the first time, according to the report.
www.infonetics.com
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Major Carriers Sign Up for GMI 2008
The MultiService Forum (News - Alert) has announced the full list of carrier, government, and academic laboratories that will host the latest Global MultiService Interoperability (GMI) 2008, a worldwide interoperability test event for next generation networks (NGNs). In Q4 this year, Verizon (News - Alert), NCS and UNH-IOL in the USA will work with BT/Vodafone in Europe and China Mobile and ETRI in Asia to create a “real world” global network to verify the interoperability of critical NGN elements in a range of practical scenarios. Building on the success of GMI 2006, this year’s event includes additional test laboratories, enhanced test scenarios and a wider range of service capabilities including end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS), location management, IPTV (News - Alert), and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
www.msforum.org

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UTStarcom (News - Alert) to Build Softswitch Network For Tiscali Italia
UTStarcom announced the successful network launch of the new Next Generation Network (NGN) softswitch provided by UTStarcom to Tiscali Italia, an independent telecommunication company operating in Europe. Tiscali Italia has chosen UTStarcom for its mSwitch NGN system as part of a new strategy. The strategy will enable Tiscali Italia to maintain and expand its current service support capability for direct access customers while ensuring low risk and reduced time to market for the rollout of new “triple play” services throughout the country.
www.utstar.com
www.tiscali.it

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Globalstar (News - Alert) Selects Hughes Networks for Software Upgrades
Mobile satellite service (MSS) provider Globalstar has awarded a contract to Hughes Network Systems to deliver next-generation equipment and software upgrades for Globalstar’s satellite-gateway ground stations. Globalstar hopes the ground network, combined with its second-generation satellite constellation, slated to be launched sometime in the second-half of 2009, will beef up its ability to offer advanced wireless voice and high-speed IMS services, as well as seamless handoffs to terrestrial networks using multi-mode user terminals. In addition to the upgrades worth about $75.1 million, Hughes will also design and supply Globalstar with approximately $25.7 million of satellite interface chips. Globalstar will use these chips to provide satellite capability to various next-generation Globalstar handsets, fixed units, and modem-equipped transceivers and transmitters.
www.globalstarusa.com
www.hughes.com

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