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LTE: Breathing New Life Into IMS?

There’s no doubt that Long-Term Evolution (LTE) has played a major role in IMS’ comeback. But the rapid adoption of LTE and the resurgence of IMS are not as intrinsically linked as they may at first appear. ...More
October 27, 2010
Posted in Blog, Customer Experience Management
Tekelec Launches Diameter Signaling Router

As the signaling protocol shifts to Diameter, new elements for interoperability will be required. Tekelec fills that niche. ...More
October 21, 2010 By Tim McElligott
Posted in News, Service & Network Management
Bridgewater Lands Cellcom as LTE Solution Goes Live at MetroPCS

Cellcom said this week it has selected Bridgewater Systems' integrated control plane solution as part of its LTE rollout. MetroPCS went live this week with Bridgewater’s Home Subscriber Server and Policy Control server. ...More
October 18, 2010 By Tim McElligott
Posted in News, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
EXFO Launches Security Test Solution for Wireless, VoIP, IMS

EXFO Inc. has released new software features that add wireless, IMS and VoIP security gateway-testing capabilities, which are critical in the deployment of wireless and wireline network architectures such as IMS, femtocells and LTE. ...More
October 5, 2010
Posted in News, Customer Experience Management
NGN Forum Publishes on Diameter and IP BSS/OSS

Security and back-office operations are emerging as essential elements of the next-generation network. To help establish best practices and guidelines for their implementation, the NGN IMS Forum today published three new papers. ...More
September 2, 2010 By Tim McElligott
Posted in News, Service & Network Management
Vodafone Portugal Personalizes Service Bundles

Vodafone Portugal is striving for personalization for its 5.9 million customers, and is looking to bundle together legacy and new network services like IP video and VoIP into creative packages. ...More
June 30, 2010 By Tara Seals
Posted in News, Service Creation & Delivery
Bridgewater Passes Interop Test with Cisco

Bridgewater has taken an important step with an important partner in the policy management game. ...More
June 28, 2010 By Tim McElligott
Posted in News
GENBAND Unveils Nortel Integration, Plans $150M in R&D

GENBAND, which won defunct Nortel Networks’ carrier VoIP division at auction earlier this year, has announced its 2010 plan for the combined GENBAND-Nortel product line, with an overall mission of open innovation and a drive toward full IMS. ...More
June 23, 2010 By Tara Seals
Posted in Articles, Service & Network Management
'Customer-Centricity': More Buzzy than 'IMS'?

Friends, the new buzzword is “customer-centricity.” And it rivals any level of giddiness that IMS ever had. ...More
June 9, 2010 By Tara Seals
Posted in Blog, Billing, Customer Experience Management
Starhome Picks Metaswitch for IMS Technology

Metaswitch announced that Starhome is Metaswitch’s DC-SIP protocol software product in its Mobile2IP solution, which enables seamless mobile communication on any IP device, and allows users to route incoming calls to their IP Soft Phone, GSM phone, or both, according ...More
March 18, 2010
Posted in News