Global IMS&SDP Deployments July 2008

01-Jul-08

Operator Announcements

Operator Infrastructure

Vendor

Service Planned Launch Date

AIS

(Thailand)

Nokia Announced November 2005 2005

Arcor AG&Co

(Germany)

Italtel Sophisticated enterprise services via Class 4

SIP-trunking

Announced September 2006 2006

ArmenTel

(Armenia)

Ericsson IP telephony and multimedia services to

consumers and business customers

Announced February 2008 2008

AT&T (formerly

SBC)

(U.S.)

Lucent

Technologies

IP-Based TV programming, VoD, High-

Speed Internet access, etc. to 18M US

households

Residential VoIP services

Push-to-Video services

Presence

Service deployment scheduled late 2006 or early

2007. Deal announced December 2005.

2005

AT&T (formerly

Cingular)

(U.S.)

Alcatel-Lucent Video call 2007 2007

Bahamas

Telecommun-

ications Co.

(Bahamas)

Convergin Fixed-mobile convergence and to advance

BTC’s migration to an IMS architecture

Deal announced May 2006; deployments under

way

2006

Belgacom

(Belgium)

Alcatel-Lucent,

Broadsoft

Integrated Telephony Services (ITS) is

targeting SMEs and multisite enterprises, e.g.

retailers with Hosted Unified

Communications service packages and

phones, including desktop clients that

increase productivity

Announced May 2008 2008

BellSouth

(U.S.)

Lucent

Technologies

Advanced consumer IP services, including

VoIP

Multi-year deal announced in November 2005. 2005

Bharti Airtel

(India)

Brasil Telecom

(Brazil)

Lucent Lucent's MiLife service platform Feb-06 2006

Brasil Telecom

(Brazil)

Ericsson Announced January 2008 2008

BT

(U.K.)

Alcatel/Lucent

Technologies

Fixed mobile convergence phone service Deal announced June 2006. Commercial

deployment planned for early 2007

2006

BT

(U.K.)

Ericsson

(for network)

BT Fusion (formerly Project Bluephone)

fixed/mobile converged phone service

Launched planned for Spring 2006; deal announced

June 2005 with 400 early adopters. On Dec. 8,

2005, BT reiterated these plans and announced it

will offer customers a wide range of handsets

alongside the Motorola v560 and forthcoming

Razr. The company also said that in 2Q 2006, the

next generation of Fusion phones will be Wi-Fi

powered.

2005

China Netcom's

Beijing Branch

(Beijing Netcom)

Ericsson IP-Centrex targeting enterprise customers Delivery has started and the network is expected to

be completed during April 2007

2007

China Unicom

(China)

Bridgeport

Networks*

Mobile VoIP Technical trials under way. Deal announced

September 2005.

2005

Chunghwa

Telecom

(Taiwan)

Alcatel-Lucent real-time video telephony and video

conferencing services between 3G mobile

networks and fixed broadband networks

Announced December 2006 2006

Global IMS DeploymentsSource: Public announcements

Cingular Wireless

(U.S.)

Lucent

Technologies

Advanced consumer IP services, including

VoIP

Multi-year deal announced in November 2005.

Launch date not yet released.

2005

Cingular Wireless

(U.S.)

Lucent

Technologies,

Ericsson

HSDPA Deals announced Feb. 2006 2006

COLT Telecom

(Europe)

Sonus Networks,

Alcatel-Lucent,

Nokia Siemens

Networks

Announced May 2008

Plans to first migrate existing COLT services over

to the IMS platform this year and in 2008, and then

build new services onto that platform from 2009. In

the future COLT plans to enable its products on

handheld devices, providing greater mobility to

employees.

2008

Com Hem

(Sweden)

Nokia Siemens

Networks

VoIP Announced October 2007 2007

Commander

Communications

(Australia)

Ericsson IMS Multimedia Telephony

Enterprise focused

IP Centrex

Services launched in fourth quarter 2005 2005

Cox

Communication

(USA)

CSL

(Hongkong)

Nokia Video sharing Announced November 2005 2005

CYTA

(Cyprus)

Ericsson Multimedia Announced December 2006 2006

EAccess LTD

(Japan)

Lucent Multimedia, HSDPA Announced February 2005 2005

Elion

(Estonia)

Ericsson Multimedia, VoIP Deal announced May 2006, trial to run through

August 2006

2006

Elisa

(Finland)

Nokia Mobile/fixed network service convergence Trial announced August 2005. Launch date not yet

released.

2005

E-Plus

(Germany)

Exatel

(Poland)

Alcatel-Lucent Fixed-mobile convergence (Dual phone) Announced October 2007 2007

FasWeb

(Italy)

FET

(Taiwan)

Ericsson Fixed-mobile convergence Announced August 2007 2007

France Telecom

(France)

Siemens Fixed-mobile convergence First two phases of three-phase project complete;

phase three includes ~ 200 customer trial.

2005

Frontier

Communications

(USA)

Fujian Telecom

(China)

Globacom

(Nigeria)

Alcatel-Lucent IMS-ready next-generation network solution.

mobile broadband and converged services,

such as video call, video streaming and high-

speed mobile Internet access on 3G mobile

handsets, phone-to-phone and fixed-to-

mobile video telephony, video greeting kiosk

and video mail box

Announced May 2007 2007

Global Crossing

(India/USA)

Global Telecom

(Philippines)

Hellas online

(Greek ISP)

Ericsson Integrating softswitch and IMS Announced January 2008 2008

Hot Telecom Nortel Managed VoIP, IM, and presence Announced June 2006 and to be deployed by the

end of 2006

2006

Instituto

Costarricense de

Electricidad

(ICE)

Lucent

Juniper Networks'

M320 routers,

Acme Packet's Net-

Net Session Border

Controllers, Dorado

Software's RedCell

MPLS Manager

and VPN Service

Center, and

BayPackets' Agility

Platform

IMS-ready solution, MPLS Contracted June 2006 2006

Jersey Telecom

(Jersey, Channel

Islands, UK)

JSC

Kazakhtelecom

Nortel IMS-ready NGN Announced May 2007 2007

KPN

(Netherlands), E-

Plus (Germany)

BASE (Belgium)

Siemens Mobile convergence, including VoIP, video

conferencing and instant messaging

Announced December 2004. KPN network

agreement is five-year deal. A user trial or

deployment across the KPN enterprise only.

2004

KPN

(Netherlands)

Alcatel-Lucent

Ericsson

VoD, Mobile Video

Ethernet Virtual Private Network (VPN)

services for business customers

PBX switcheds connected to IMS (Ericsson)

Announced August 2006 2006

KTF

(South Korea)

Magyar

Telekom's T-

Mobile and T-

Com

(Hungary)

Comverse and

Huawei

voice and video calls over IP, fixed-mobile

convergence (FMC) services, presence-

enabled applications, rich video, and

multimedia messaging services, personalized

content services, and converged billing

solutions.

Announced August 2006 2006

Manx Telecom

(Isle of Man. A

subsidiary of O2)

Lucent Multimedia services including Voice over

Internet Protocol and data services

Announced July 2006 2006

Mediatel

(Morocco)

Business trunking deployed over WiMax

MegaFon

(Russia)

Mena Telecom

(Kingdom of

Bahrain)

End-to-end network, comprising 3.5GHz

WiMax infrastructure, IMS core, customer

premises equipment (CPE), voice and data

applications, and operational and business

support systems. Provides broadband

connectivity and advanced voice and

nomadic broadband data services to both

business and residential customersMiRS

Communications

(Israel)

Tekelec Fixed-mobile convergence and hosted SIP Deployment under way. Deal announced December

2005.

2005

MMO2

(U.K.)

Siemens Push-to-talk over Cellular (POC), multimedia

conferencing

EOY 2005 first launch in two-year program 2005

Mobilkom

Austria

(austria)

Mobile Satellite

Ventures

(USA)

Netia

(Poland)

Lucent IMS-based voice and data services to

business customers

Frame agreement announced September 2005 2005

Neuf Cegetel

(France)

FMC voice service (TWIN巻): unlimited

voice and access to media content (TV,

music, Neuf Giga) for a low price

NTT DoCoMo

(Japan)

NWT

(HongKong)

Lucent Coverged fixed mobile service Announced August 2006 2006

ONEMAX

(Dominican

Republic)

Alcatel-Lucent Mobile handoffs on a commercial WiMAX Announced October 2007 2007

Optimus

(Portugal)

Ericsson HSDPA, video Deal announced March 2006 2006

O2

(Isle of Man)

Lucent

Technologies

Voice services, DVD-quality streaming

video, fast downloads of large files and VPN

access to corporate networks

Service set to launch early 2006 2006

PCCW

(Hong Kong)

Phone Systems

and Network

(France)

Alcatel Transition from TDM to VoIP network Launched May 2006 2006

Rogers

Communications

(Canada)

Ericsson HSDPA, Quadruple-play services Trial announced October 2005 to be completed by

March 2006. Commercial launch expected Fall

2006.

2005

Saunalahti

(Finland)

Nokia VoIP and rich multimedia to both mobile and

fixed telephony customers

Announced in June 2005. Launch date not yet set. 2005

Shandong

Telecom

(China)

Lucent Voice over IP (VoIP) services for large- and

medium-sized enterprises

Announced July 2005. Launch date not yet

released.

2005

SmarTone-

Vodafone

(Hong Kong)

Ericsson Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

(MBMS)

Announced April 2008 2008

SoftBank Mobile

(Japan)

Ericsson Circle Talk (push-to-talk) and HotStatus

(presence, group list management).


Sonaecom

(Portugal)

Sprint Nextel

(U.S.)

Lucent EV-DO Announced in December 2004. Expanded Power

Vision network in mid-November 2005

2004

Sprint Nextel

(U.S.) Joint

Venture with

Comcast, Cox

Communications,T

ime Warner Cable

and Advance/

Newhouse

Communications

Not Announced A "quadruple play" of wireless, high-speed

data, voice and video. The venture adds

wireless to the cable operators' bundles. It

will also integrate mobile/cable content

delivery. Services may include unified

messaging.

Announced Nov. 2, 2005. Sprint Nextel and the

cable consortium are each investing $100 million.

Customers could receive cable TV programs on

their cell phones as early as this year.

2005

SPT

(Vietnam)

Ericsson IP telephony and IP Centrex Announced November 2006 2006

SunCom

(U.S.)

Ericsson Video telephony, conference calling,

document-sharing Web pages (collaboration)

and presence management in its IP network.

Trials announced December 2005. Launch date not

yet released.

2005

SureWest

(USA)

Alcatel-Lucent Caller ID, Call Waiting with ID, Find

Me/Follow Me, sequential ringing,

simultaneous ringing and Selective Call

Screening

911/E911

Announced April 2008 2008

Swisscom Mobile

(Switzerland)

Telcordia Converged mobile Migration of network under way 2005

Swisscom

(Switzerland)

Ericsson converged fixed and mobile multimedia

services

Delivery will start during 2007 and the frame

agreement will last until 2013

2006

TDC

(Denmark)

Erisccon IP telephony and IP Centrex to business users Announced June 2005 2005

TELE Greenland

(Greenland)

Ericsson integrated fixed and mobile convergent

services

Announced January 2008 2008

Telecom Italia

Mobile

(Italy)

Ericsson and Nokia Video sharing Mass market launch 2Q05 2005

Telekomunikacja

Polska

(Poland)

Ericsson multimedia telephony, presence, instant

messaging and IP centrex services, via either

fixed or mobile broadband access

Planned to integrate IMS solution until the end of

2007

2007

Telefonica

(Spain)

Ericsson IP telephony and IP Centrex

Video Telephony on TV

Announced in April 2005. Deployment of IMS

solution began in late spring 2005.

2005

Telefonica Alcatel-Lucent Presence-based service

instant messaging, video mailbox, push-to-

talk and push-to-view, click-to-call, or

instant collaboration, both in fixed and

mobile communications


TELE Greenland

(Greenland)

Erisccon fixed and mobile convergent services Announced January 2008 2008

Telemar Oi

(Brazil)

Nokia Converged wireless/wireline IMS

deployment

Trial announced October 2005 2005

Telenor

(Norway)

Nokia Fixed mobile convergence trial Partnership initiated late 2005; service trials to end

at the close of 2006.

2005

Telenor

(Sweden)

Ericsson IMS-based IP Centrex Announced July 2007 2007

Telia Sonera

(Nordic Region)

Ericsson, Nokia

and Siemens

Instant messaging, photoshare, video sharing,

gaming among different mobile operators

Trial in spring 2005 2005

Telkomsel

(Indonesia)

Nokia 3G services, such as video sharing. Based on

standardized 3GPP and IETF technologies.

Enabled by IMS core network

Six-month trial under way now 2006

Telstra

(Australia)

Ericsson Service Fusion: Interwoven fixed and mobile

voice, data, video and other multimedia

content

Identity, Presence, Location, Storage,

Speech, PaymentsTelus

(Canada)

TerreStar

Networks

(USA)

Alcatel-Lucent LBS, presence, push-to-talk-over-cellular and

push-to-view


TIM

(Italy)

Push to talk

Time Warner

Cable

(USA)

TMN

(Portugal)

Nokia Video Sharing Service launched in July 2005 2005

T-Com Hungary

T-Mobile

(Germany, the

Netherlands,

Britain)

Nokia, Siemens HSDPA Nokia: Service launched in Germany March 2006;

the Netherlands and Britain to follow later in 2006.

Siemens: Service launch intiated in Germany and

Austria in March 2006.

2006

T-Mobile

(Hungary)

Comverse, Huawei Video call, FMC, presence, multimedia

messaging

Announced in June 2006 2006

Verizon Wireless

(USA)

Alcatel-Lucent Voice over IP (VoIP), push-to-x, mobile

video telephony

Announced March 2007 2007

Vimpelcom

(Russia)

Virgin Media

(UK)

Vivatel

(Bulgaria)

Nokia Announced September 2006 2006

Vivo

(Brazil)

Ericsson SDP Announced Feburary 2007 2007

Vodafone

(Czech)

Ericsson converged fixed and mobile multimedia

services


Vodafone

(Germany)

Erisccon converged fixed and mobile multimedia

services


Vodafone

(Iceland)

Ericsson IPTV Announced Feburary 2007 2007

Vodafone Group

(U.K.)

Nokia, Ericsson IMS-based next-generation wireless services Initial deployments with Nokia scheduled in 2006

to Vodafone affiliates worldwide. First deployment

with Ericsson equipment will be in Japan.

2006

Vodafone

(Ireland)

Ericsson Announced August 2008 2008

Vodafone

(Portugal)

Ericsson Converged fixed and mobile service Announced July 2007 2007

Warid Group

(Uganda)

Huawei Voice, IP Centrex, multimedia

communications, prepaid and other value-

added services

Announced October 2007 2007

Wana

(Morocco)

Enhanced and converged fixed and mobile

services over all-IP network

Wateen Telecom

(Pakistan)

WiMax access network, IMS core and

services, offering residential and corporate

voice, applications, and data services

nationwide

Whaleback

Systems

(USA)

CrystalBlue managed voice service

Industry Trade Group Activities

Trade Group Infrastructure

Vendor

Service Planned Launch Date

GSM Association

Interoperability

Initiative #1

(U.K.)

Ericsson, Nokia

and Siemens

European operators--TeliaSonera, Vodafone,

Orange, KPN--developed hubs to support

IMS and achieved IMS IPv6 systems

interoperability with IMS IPv4 systems

Announced September 2005. Not commercial.

GSM Association

Interoperability

Initiative #2

(Europe, Asia,

U.S.)

Ericsson, Lucent,

LG, Motorola,

Nokia, NEC,

Samsung, Siemens,

Sony-Ericsson

Video sharing initiative led by TeliaSonera Announced February 2006 as a follow-on to

European IMS trials announced by the group in

September 2005. Video trials set to continue

through 2006. Not commercial.

IMS Forum

(U.S.)

25 founding

member companies,

mainly VoIP

companies

Will offer consultancy and expertise to the

industry on best practices and approaches for

IMS rollouts, interconnectivity and

convergence

None planned

Rich

Communication

Suite

The Rich

Communication

Suite Initiative is an

effort of a group of

operators, network

and terminal

vendors to launch a

set of interoperable

services based on

IMS

Operators: Orange,

Telecom Italia,

Telefonica,

TeliaSonera,

AT&T, NTT

DoCoMo, Telenor,

Telstra, SFR, SK

Telecom

Vendors: Nokia,

Nokia Siemens

Networks, Samsung

Sony-Ericsson,,

Ericsson, Alcatel-

Lucent, Motorola,

LG

Will offerMain features of Rich

Communication Suite Phase 1

Rich Call: calls enhanced with media sharing

Enhanced phone book, contacts enhanced

with capabilities and rich presence,

Enhanced messaging, conversational

messaging experience.consultancy and

expertise to the industry on best practices and

approaches for IMS rollouts,

interconnectivity and convergence

Plan is to have RCS devices in the shops in 2009

© Copyright 2006-2008 Ian Yeon

*The BridgePort Networks proprietary solution is not IMS standard, but covers an aspect of IMS standards that is not yet fully finalized.

01-Jul-08

Operator Announcements

Wireless

Operator

Infrastructure Vendor Service Planned Launch Date

AT&T Microsoft's Connected Services

Framework (CSF)

Announced June 2005

Bell Canada

(Canada)

Microsoft's Connected Services

Framework (CSF)

Launched February 2005

BT

(UK)


Framework (CSF)

‘plug and play’ facility for launching

Internet-hosted software services to smaller

businesses in the U.K

Launched February 2005

Celcom Malaysia

(Malaysia)


Framework (CSF)

E-mail, calendaring, IM to mobile device Announced March 2005

China Mobile

(China)

Ericsson 2005

China Unicom

(China)

Ericsson 2005

China Unicom

(Shanghai, China)

Motorola messaging, location, browsing and push

services, etc

Announced March 2008

Chunghwa

Telecom

(Taiwan)

Ericsson

EMT

(Estonia)

Ericsson

France Telecom

(France)


Framework (CSF)

Announced July 2005

Hutchison 3

(Sweden,

Denmark)

Ericsson

Hutchison

(Indonesia)

Nokia Siemens Networks

(Xiam, mobilecohesion, Openet)

Mobilkom Austria

(Austria)

Ericsson

NetCom

(Norway)

Ericsson

NTT DoCoMo

(Japan)

NEC

mmO2 Same as NTT DoCoMo

Omnitel

(Lithuamia)

Ericsson

Proximus

(Belgium)

Ericsson Mobile TV Announced November 2006

SFR

(France)

Ericsson(LHS) Billing solution

SiMobil

(Slovenia)

Ericsson

SK Telecom

(South Korea)

HP Mobile E-services Server

Sprint Wireless

(USA)

Presence, Cell Sector Location, Precision

Location, SMS Alerts, Voice Alerts,

Presence Notifications, Location

Notifications

Announced May 2005

Global SDP DeploymentsSource: Public announcements

Swisscom Mobile

(Switzerland)

IBM Announced February 2006

Tele2

(Sweden)

Ericsson

Tele2

(Norway)

Ericsson

Telefonica

Moviles

(Mexico)

Ericsson

Telefonica

Moviles

(Spain)

HP

Telenor

(Sweden)

Ericsson

Telia

(Denmark)

Ericsson

Telia

(Sweden)

Ericsson

Telstra

(Australia)

Ericsson Service Fusion: Interwoven fixed and mobile

voice, data, video and other multimedia

content

Identity, Presence, Location, Storage,

Speech, PaymentsTIM

(Italy)

HP, BEA Messaging, LBS, Video call

Turkcell

(Turkey)

Telenity’s Canvas CSP Announced February 2007

VIP

(Croatia)

Ericsson

Vivo

(Brazil)

Ericsson Announced February 2007

Vodacom

(South Africa)

Ericsson

Vodafone Ericsson

Wind

Telecommunicazi

oni

(Italy)

Ericsson

Yoigo

(Spain)

Ericsson

Industry Trade Group Activities

Trade Group Infrastructure Vendor Service Planned Launch Date

SDP Alliance Nokia-Siemens-Networks

Aepona, changingworlds, cibenix,

Openet, Mobility Data Systems © Copyright 2006-200 Ian Yeon

Vendor Types include... Products include... Named customers include...

Acision SMS-SIP Ggateway, MMS-to-SIP gateway,

converged charging, IMS/SIP messaging

applications, device and network agnostic

messaging

Messaging Application Server, SMS-SIP

and MMS-SIP Gateway, SMSC with

onboard IMS/SIP connector

Acme Packet IMS session border control

AePona IMS-ready FMC application (voice call continuity

or cellular/WiFi roaming)

Service Broker, Network Gateway,

Telecom Application Server, Telecom

Web Services Platform

France Telecom / Orange, Sprint,

Telus, Vimpelcom, Bharti Airtel

Agilent Techologies IMS signaling testing and monitoring Signaling Analyzer - J7830A, Wireless

QOS Manager, Triple Play Monitoring

System

Alcatel-Lucent IMS architecture, platforms, and services Alcatel-Lucent 1390 Generic User Profile

Server, Alcatel-Lucent 1430 Unified

Home Subscriber Service for IM-HSS,

Alcatel-Lucent 5020 Call Session

Controller, Alcatel-Lucent 5350 IMS

Application Server, Alcatel-Lucent 5430

Session Resource Broker

AT&T (former SBC, Cingular,

BellSouth), TerreStar Networks,

Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Telefonica,

Phone Systems and Network, KPN,

Manx Telecom, Jersey Telecom,

TDC, Chunghwa Telecom, NWT

Aperto Networks Voice and IMS multimedia services over WiMax

AppTrigger SSF, SCIM Ignite Application Session Controller

version 7.0

Argela Technologies IMS software components, including: edge proxy

(P-CSCF), interrogating proxy (I-CSCF), serving

proxy (S-CSCF), convergence gateway, media

gateway, service interaction gateway (SCIM), SIP

application server (SIPAS), presence server,

streaming server, group manager, resource

location server

IMS Core, Convergence, and Service

Delivery Suites

Argent Networks IMS rating and billing ArgentEclipse IMS

Aricent IMS-based voice call continuity (VCC) server, IMS

application development environment

IMS Client Framework

Atos Origin IMS and SIP application development and

delivery

Atreus IMS provisioning solution xAuthority

Audio Codes IMS-compliant media servers (MRFPs) IPmedia family

Azaire Networks AAA, service gateways IP Converged Network Platform (IP-

CNP), Metro-WSG (M-WSG), Service

Control Node (SCN)

BEA Systems IMS application server, IMS policy/SLA/partner

management gateway

BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA

WebLogic Network Gatekeeper

Bridgewater

Systems

Authorization and policy servers, HSS AAA Service Controller, Application

Policy Controller, Network Policy

Controller, Home Subscriber Server

Brix Networks QOS monitoring and assurance BrixWorx, BrixMobile

BroadSoft IMS-compliant voice applications platform BroadWorks -- IMS Product Portfolio

comprises Application Server Complex

and Media Resource Function (MRF)

Cantata Technology Media and signaling gateway, IP media server,

programmable services platforms

IMG 1010, SnowShore IP Media Server

Cedar Point

Communications

Voice services and switching SAFARI C3 Media Switching System

Cisco Systems IMS architecture, platforms, and services XR 12000 Series Session Border

Controller, BTS 10200 Softswitch, MGX

8880 Media Gateways

Comptel Provisioning, mediation, and identifier

management

Comptel Dynamic OSS Wana

Comverse Applications servers, billing, messaging, Centrex IMS Applications Suite 2.0

Convergin IMS SCIM Accolade WCS

CopperCom Voice services and switching CopperCom CSX Switching System

Data Connection

Ltd. (DCL)

IMS protocols source code Portable software: P-CSCF, IBCF, BGF,

SIP, DIAMETER, H.248, and SigComp

Sonus, Alcatel-Lucent, CedarPoint,

Starent, ECI Telecom, and Nokia

Siemens

Ditech Networks IMS border services solutions PeerPoint 100 Session Border Controller

E28 IMS phones E2831

ECI Telecom IMS architecture, platforms, and services Policy/Service Brokering, integrated

AGC/PEP, Hi-FOCuS 5 MSAN,

ST200/50, Service Enabling Platforms,

STMS, IPTV/Video IMS applications,

NGN Voice applications, fixed/mobile

convergence solutions

Encore Software VOIP protocol stacks Enhanced IMS UE

Empirix VOIP/IMS test and monitoring Hammer IMS test, Hammer XMS

monitoring (active and passive); alliances

with IBM, Sonus, Ditech

NTT, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom,

France Telecom, Telecom Italia,

Sprint Nextel, BT, Telstra, KPN,

TeliaSonera, Telenor, Swisscom,

Rogers, PCCW, Cox

Communications

Ericsson IMS architecture, platforms, and services Full Service Broadband Solution Vodafone, Telenor, Beijing Netcom,

Telekomunikacja Polska, Swisscom,

Softbank Mobile, CYTA, SPT,

FarEasTone, O2 Ireland, Telefonica

(Spain), Commander (Australia),

Sprint Nextel, TDC, TIM, Sonaecom,

Elion, KPN, Virgin Media, Meditel,

Telenor

Genband IMS gateways and application platforms 8000 Media Gateway, C2 Signaling

Controller, C3 Signaling Controller, G2

Compact Media Gateway, G6 Universal

Media Gateway, G9 Converged Media

Gateway, M5 Multimedia Applications

Server, M6 Communication Applications

Server

HelloSoft IMS soft client for the PC HelloCommunicator

Hewlett-Packard IMS components for signaling, service control,

service profiles, and service interaction

HP-Tekelec Open IMS solution, HP

OpenCall IMS

Huawei

Technologies

IMS architecture, platforms and services. IMS

fixed/mobile convergence solution

IMS3.0 solution. IMS components: Policy

Decision Function (PDF), Home

Subscriber Server (HSS), Voice Call

Continuity Application Server (VCC AS),

Telephony Application Server (Telephony

AS), , Network Attachment Subsystem

(NACF/CLF), Media Resource Server

(MRFC/MRFP), Call Session Control

Function (CSCF)

Warid, Magyar Telekom

IBM IMS-compliant service delivery platforms Rational software development platform,

WebSphere Application Server, Telecom

Web Services (Parlay X)

Intec Billing IMS Charging Solution

IP Unity IMS video applications

Italtel Core IMS products IMS Solution

Ixia Testing IxVoice test solution

JacobsRimell Data federation and Subscriber Information

Management for HSS and third-party providers

GUP Server, RAF Server, APSDP

Subscriber Information Management

Platform

Leapstone Systems Subscriber service profile generation, Serving-Call

Session Control (S-CSCF), Service Capability

Interaction Manager (SCIM)

CCE serviceBROKER

Mascon Global IMS products, applications, and enablers VOIP/IP protocol stacks, DIAMETER

suite, FMC gateway, Policy Decision

Function (PDF), Home Subscriber

System (HSS), SIP Servers, B2B SIP

User Agent (B2BUA), SIP User Agent,

Session Border Controller (SBC), SIP

Application Server, OSA/Parlay-X

Gateway

Mavenir Systems IMS Proxy and Interogatting P/I-CSCF for 2G/3G

Access, BGCF, SIP/IMS BSC, IMS AS Proxy for

2G/3G MSC

mOne Convergence Gateway

MetaSwitch IMS application, data, and media plane functions IMS Application Plane – MetaSwitch SDP

and Application Suite, MetaSwitch

CA9000 Series Call Agent. IMS Control

Plane of IMS – MetaSwitch CA9000

Series Call Agent. IMS Media Plane –

MetaSwitch Media Gateways

(MetaSwitch MG2510 and MetaSwitch

MG3510) and MetaSwitch Signaling

Gateways (MetaSwitch SG2510 and

MetaSwitch SG3510)

Motorola Fixed/mobile convergence solutions Motorola IMS Eco-System. Turnkey IMS

solution includes SIP

Applications/Feature Server, Seamless

Mobility Manager (MM), Call Session

Controller Function(CSCF), Home

Subscriber Server (HSS), Media

Gateway. Applications includes fixed

voice, voice and internet, FMC/VCC

Mena Telecom, Wateen Telecom

Mu Security IMS security testing Mu-4000 Security Analyzer

Navtel Testing IMS/TISPAN border gateway (BGF) test

application

NetHawk IMS testing NetHawk M5 Analyser and EAST load

test tool

NewHeights

Software

VOIP application servers, service management

tools

Open Communications Solutions and

Edge Application Server

Nokia Siemens

Networks

IMS core and application solution CFX-5000 (CSCF), CMS-8200 (HSS),

and application servers for a variety of

services, such as VoIP and PoC

Vodafone Group, TIM, Telkomsel, E-

Plus, China Mobile, MegaFon, CSL,

Time Warner Cable, TeliaSonera,

and Com Hem

Nortel IMS architecture, VOIP and multimedia

application servers, platforms and services

Applications Server (AS) 5200,

Application Server (AS) 2000, Wireless

Mobility Gateway 6000 (for VCC feature),

Versatile Service Engine, Call Session

Controller (CSC) 1000, Home Subscriber

Server (HSS) 1000, Media Gateway

Controller (MGC) 2000, Media Gateway

Controller-Packet MSC, Converged

Media Gateway 15000, Policy Controller

(PC), PES (PSTN Emulation Server),

MRF, Service Capability Manager 1000

as well as enablers provided by strategic

partners for Presence, GLMS or charging

capability

(can be IMS ready AS or full IMS

deployment) France Telecom,

Telefonica, Verizon, MSV, Neuf

Telecom

Openet IMS BSS IMS Charging with Diameter-based

interfaces and applications – Charging

Gateway Function (CGF), Charging Data

Function (CDF), Online Charging Server

(OCS)

Operax IMS Resource and Admission Control Operax Resource Controllers 5500, 5700 Telecom Italia

Pactolus Service creation and delivery platforms RapidFLEX 6.0

PicoMobile

Networks

IMS-enabled mobile handset software PicoNet

Polycom IMS-compliant collaborative communications

(UCC) applications, application servers

RMX 2000 Real-time media conferencing

platform, Proxias Application Server and

Application Development Environment

Radcom VOIP/IMS test and monitoring Prism, Omni-Q

RadiSys Media servers Software Media Server for audio/video

applications

Radvision IMS-ready products for interactive video services;

IMS developer suites

Scopia Interactive Video Platform, Scopia

3G Video Gateway, IMS Express

Redknee IMS billing, rating, charging, and policy servers,

application servers

Policy Decision Rules Server, Unified

Rating & Charging System

FarEasTone

Reef Point Systems IMS Border Gateways and Mobile Access

Gateways for FMC and femtocell deployments.

IP Base Station Gateway, Wireless

Gateway, IMS Release 7 BGF and IMS

Security gateway

Solinet Testing SOLINET Signaling Tester, SIP IMS Test

Suite

Sonus Networks VOIP solutions; billing IMS architecture products, SMARTT;

billing products under development –

alliance with NeuStar

Spirent

Communications

Testing Spirent Protocol Tester, Test Center

Starent Networks Session controlers Session Control Manager, ST16

Intelligent Mobile Gateway

Stratus

Technologies

Session controllers, signaling gateways, service

brokerage and mediation

ENTICE Family of Open Packet Based

Network Solutions

Sylantro Systems Applications feature servers Synergy multiplay application feature

server

Swisscom

Tatara Systems IMS SIP application servers (mobile and femtocell

applications), AAA

Tatara Convergence Server, Tatara

Subscriber Gateway

Tazz Networks Policy servers TAZZ Policy Control System

Tekelec IMS applications and session control TekCore Session Manager (SIP signaling

and session manager in IMS and/or NGN

core), TekSCIM Service Mediator

(service orchestration and mediation in

pre-IMS, IMS and hybrid networks),

TekPath Route Director (ENUM-based

subscriber database for routing IP

services), TekMedia (IMS messaging

gateway for routing messaging between

SS7 and SIP-based subscribers in IMS

network)

Not disclosed

Tektronix IMS performance monitoring and testing Unified Assurance suite – covers IMS-

based applications such as Converged

voice (fixed mobile convergence), VOIP

(hosted VoIP, IP Centrex), Peer to peer

video services (mobile-to-mobile

multimedia services), and Presence

based applications (unified messaging,

push-to-talk), and covers enabling

technologies such as SIP, H.248/GCP,

BICC, HTTP, WAP, SMS & MMS; RTP,

RTCP, RTSP; DNS/ENUM, DHCP,

RADIUS & DIAMETER;

GPRS/UMTS/UTRAN access networks;

UMA access networks; Fixed Broadband

access networks

Telcordia

Technologies

Application servers, FMC Converged Applications Server, Maestro

IMS Portfolio

Telenity IMS-ready service enablers and applications Converged Application Canvas

Converged Services Solutions

Thomson IMS core products, voice application servers,

IPTV application servers

CIRPACK MultiNode-B, SmartVision

IPTV service platform

Tilgin Home gateways IMS@Home

Traffix Systems AAA and Diameter protocols OpenBloX

TTI Service assurance Netrac Next Generation Service

Assurance Solution

UbiquiSys IMS-enabled femtocell 3G access point systems ZoneGate

Ubiquity Software Application servers SIP Application Server

UTStarcom Fixed/mobile convergence solutions Continuity Platform, Implicity Messaging

Platform

Veraz Networks IMS core elements and solutions ControlSwitch User Services Core- USC-

xCSCF, USC-Service Broker /SCIM,

USC-MGCF & BGCF, USC-Security

Gateway , USC-HSS, USC-Application

Servers, USC-SLF, USC-UE (softclient)

Onemax

Wipro Technologies Service delivery frameworks CONVERSER

ZTE IMS architecture, platforms, and services ZIMS Solution

Source: Light Reading , 2007

Web 2.0 Approach of vendors

Vendor Products Mashup Technology Support Strategy

Alcatel-Lucent Telecom Application Server, IMS

Client

High-level API to telco enablers, SDP components,

telco enablers for mashup

Behind the firewall

BEA (Oracle) AquaLogic Pages, Pathways,

Ensemble, WebLogic Comms

Server, Network GK

Mashup environment, High-level API to telco

enablers, SDP components, telco enablers via

partners, e.g. Broadsoft, Telenity

Behind the firewall

IBM QEDWiki, Telecom Web Service

Server, WebSphere Presence

server, WebSphere Group List

Server


enablers, SDP components, telco enablers for

mashup

Behind the firewall / Long

tail

JackBe Presto Studio, Dash, Edge Mashup environment, SDP components Behind the firewall

jNetX JAIN SLEE High-level API to telco enablers, telco enablers for

mashup

Behind the firewall

Kapow Kapow Mashup Server Mashup environment Behind the firewall

Microsoft Connected Services Framework

Sandbox


enablers, SDP components

Behind the firewall

Red Hat Red Hat Developer Studio Mashup environment Behind the firewall / Long

tail

StrikeIron StrikeIron Marketplace SDP components Behind the firewall

Sun Application server, Java System

Comms, Netbeans, JavaFX, Service

Governance Framework

Mashup environment, SDP components, telco

enablers through ecosystem partners

Behind the firewall / Long

tail

Zapatec Zapatec Ajax Suite Mashup environment Behind the firewall / Long

tail

Documents

Global IMS&SDP Deployments July 2008