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Apple, Adobe, HTML 5, Flash and Standards

February 24, 2010 By Kfir Pravda 4 Comments

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HTML 5 and  its effect on the industry will be discussed at IMTC virtual conference “2025″. For more details check this link.

Apple doesn’t like Flash. We know that already. Steve Jobs recently called Adobe lazy, and we all know that iPhone and iPad doesn’t support Flash. But the story is a bit more complex than that.

Apple’s opposition to Adobe is linked to HTML 5 – an open standard that would enable developers to use open formats to deliver rich media experiences. As such, this format is a threat on Adobe. And as Apple Insider analyzed in a great post about Flash vs. Apple: [Read more...]

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VoLTE – The first IOT event

February 22, 2010 By bo Jonsson 1 Comment

At the 2nd of February in Stockholm, winter-time in the city filled with snow, the IMTC IMS AG (Activity Group) met F2F (Face to Face) for inter-operability activity. This time, our challenge was to help bringing IMS Voice over LTE (VoLTE, a single industry-wide solution for voice over LTE adopted by GSMA) to the market. [Read more...]

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VoLTE and the IMTC

February 18, 2010 By Tsahi Levent-Levi 2 Comments

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One of the important aspects of an open standard is the ability to rigorously test it for interoperability. And then when you’re done testing – test yet again. It is an ongoing process that never seem to end.

Take our 3G-324M AG at the IMTC – I’ve been an active participant of this group from its inception, and that was over 5 years ago. And this year, the 3G-324M AG is going to have some more testing done – it seems like there is no rest for engineers.

So now that the GSMA has decided to go full force and work on the VoLTE specification so that operators can start rolling out all-IP mobile networks and still provide the basic services they do today, there was a missing piece in the puzzle – they have the ecosystem, but not real place to use for interoperability testing amongst the vendors implementing VoLTE.

That’s exactly where the IMTC comes into the picture [Read more...]

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A Short Introduction to VoLTE

February 15, 2010 By Tsahi Levent-Levi 6 Comments

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A few years ago, when it seemed apparent that all communications are moving to an IP based world, mobile operators had to decide on the standard to use in their all-IP world. SIP was selected for that purpose as the base protocol, with a lot of additional protocols taking part to comprise the whole network. The end result (which is an ongoing standardization effort) is IMS – the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
IMS was adopted by all other incumbent service providers – wireline, wireless and cable, which in a way made sure of continuity of service, interoperability and roaming between operators. Fun as it is, the problem with IMS is its complexity: it comes to replace a hundred years of developments in voice technologies, and wrap into their future network advanced services such as rich multimedia and presence. [Read more...]

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2025 IMTC Virtual Conference: Last Call for Speakers

February 9, 2010 By Ilil Ben-Shalom 1 Comment

CALL FOR SPEAKERS (Extended For 2 More Weeks)

The IMTC Forum, a meeting place for experts in video communication and collaboration, is conducting a virtual conference, April 7-8 2010.  This is the first of its kind event, taking place in the browser near you.  The theme of the event is 2025 -Technology, Standards, Work, Life.  We’ll discuss the ways online technologies will impact our lives and careers in the future.

We’re looking for additional speakers who wish to share their knowledge and professional standpoint of what our technological future will be.  If you’re interested, please send an email to kfir@pravdam.com.
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