[April 07, 2005] Ericsson Provides Telefonica with IMS for IP Telephony and IP Centrex Services Tweet STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- April 7, 2005 -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) has been selected by Telefonica to provide Ericsson's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. The solution will allow Telefonica to offer its fixed network customers various services including IP telephony and IP Centrex to business users. The implementation will start during the spring. Ericsson's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) gives operators an immediate revenue opportunity when evolving to all-IP operations, through a wide range of new or enriched services, and where service enablers for common functions can be reused for multiple fixed and mobile applications. The IMS based IP Centrex functionality hosts a complete set of personal and group services, with the addition of multimedia support such as video telephony, conference calling, sharing of documents and web pages (collaboration), presence management, instant messaging, e-mail integration and support for remote workers. This will offer an important enhancement to Telefonica's portfolio using a broad range of interoperable terminals. "IMS is the foundation for an enhanced communications experience and a range of applications, which will provide additional revenue streams to the operators. At the same time, there are clear cost benefits of having one IMS solution supporting multiple applications," says Ingemar Naeve, Head of Market Unit Iberia, Ericsson. "We are proud to be able to share with Telefonica our vast knowledge from working with IMS both from a standardization and development point of view." Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. Read more at http://www.ericsson.com/press About Ericsson IMS: Ericsson IMS can provide fixed, mobile and enterprise users with a range of new services such as push to talk, combinational services, IP telephony and IP Centrex already today. Additional IMS services will continuously be developed - by Ericsson or other companies -making Ericsson IMS a future-proof and cost-effective selection for operators. Ericsson IMS offers services over packet based networks and is a cornerstone for an efficient IP-centric network environment. It complies with the 3GPP/3GPP2 IMS standard. Standards are critical for user adoption as they allow access to services that function seamlessly over networks provided by different suppliers. Ericsson is the leader in the IMS area with 27 contracts distributed over the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]