Apple, Adobe, HTML 5, Flash and Standards

Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher interview Ste...
Image via Wikipedia

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...]

About the writer: Kfir Pravda

VoLTE – The first IOT event

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...]

About the writer: bo Jonsson

VoLTE and the IMTC

_MG_3750
Image by Richard.Asia via Flickr

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...]

About the writer: Tsahi Levent-Levi

A Short Introduction to VoLTE

Red London Phone Boxes
Image by markhillary via Flickr

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...]

About the writer: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Is HD voice Really Here?

Communication
Image by elycefeliz via Flickr

Written By Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director, Product Management – Americas at RADVISION

To follow up on my previous post, I would like to continue talking about HD Voice. However, now I’m armed and dangerous – with the knowledge, that is. HD Communications Summit which took place on Thursday, May 21st, in New York City, brought together an outstanding line up of speakers with an amazing depth of knowledge on the subject. The event was organized by Jeff Pulver and Dan Berninger – both can be regarded as VoIP pioneers and experts on the subject. [Read more...]

About the writer: Kfir Pravda