Companies and developers often try to achieve a seamless handoff between VoIP on the 4G LTE (
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Taking a step closer in that direction,
HelloSoft has extended its carrier proven VoIP and Voice Call Continuity (VCC) solution suite to future 4G-LTE devices.
HelloSoft’s recently released, award winning VoIP and VCC Convergence (
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Looking to provide a complete platform for VoIP and VCC on Beceem’s (
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The RISC-only VOIP and complete convergence solutions from HelloSoft are based on in-house hardware and software enable superior quality uninterrupted IP-based enterprise and consumer voice, video and data services.
Allan Johnson (
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The session hand-off between WiMAX and LTE is a key enabler for HelloSoft to show its VCC and convergence software client and Beceem’s 4G-LTE/WiMAX chip is designed to support this. This will allow ODMs and OEMs to build a wide range of exciting next generation 4G LTE and WiMAX devices, states the company.
Recently, the company
launched its ultra low-power IP Convergence Platform and claims that it is five times more power efficient than existing solutions. The new chip, HS100, combines HelloSoft’s patented technologies for advanced ultra low-power ARM processor and patented SmartWLAN, and the company’s complete convergence software suite. The HS100 supports UMA and interfaces for 2G/3G/4G (LTE/WiMAX) connectivity and co-existence algorithms.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Marisa Torrieri
