IMTC: Interoperability, Multimedia and Standards
Ericsson, Qualcomm make progress on VoLTE
Ericsson and Qualcomm claims to have the world first voice call handover between LTE and WCDMA networks. Read more at Total Telecom.
A Day Made of Glass
Telepresence options wrote an article about the highly successful ‘A Day Made of Glass 2′ video. If you haven’t watched the original yet, see it below:
Videoconferencing at CES
AnandTech wrote about the videoconferencing solutions presented at CES, covering Vidyo and Biscotti.
Adaptive streaming over HTTP has become the default dominant approach for video distribution.
At the moment, proprietary technologies have been deployed such as as Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Adobe Dynamic Streaming, and the industry has been eager to have a unified standard solution. [Read more...]
Also Availiable as PDF. [Read more...]
IMTC Blog is proud to Interview Frédéric Gabin, Standardization Manager at Ericsson, France and IMTC Board of Directors member:
IMTC Blog: Hello Frédéric, Please Tell us about yourself, your positions in Ericsson and past positions.
Mr.Gabin: My name is Frédéric Gabin, I’m French and I live in Paris, France. My role in the Ericsson standardization organization since 2008 is to lead and coordinate the development of Multimedia standards. I started my career as a signal processing research engineer in 1998 and since then was involved in research, system design and standards with both network and mobile terminal vendors.
IMTC Blog: Why did you volunteered to be an IMTC board member?
Mr.Gabin: The IMTC organization has a strong history of making upcoming key multimedia features a reality without which originating standards would look like mere litterature. The board member position gives a direct ability of steering the organization towards the real needs of my company and the industry. I wanted to be part of this.
IMTC Blog: What are your goals as an IMTC board member ?
Mr.Gabin: My goals are to give existing and future AGs visibility and support in their developments by establishing clear directions in agreement with the key industry players.
IMTC Blog: How does IMTC benefit Ericsson?
Mr.Gabin: IMTC benefits Ericsson as well as ST-Ericsson and Sony-Ericsson in that it gives a framework for terminal interop tests of key multimedia services which speeds up deployments and adoption on the market.
IMTC Blog: In your opinion – What are IMTC greatest achievements? what were 2010 greatest achievements?
Mr.Gabin: IMTC greatest achievements in 2010 were that VoLTE F2F test events started February 2-4 (Ericsson AB), Stockholm and October 20-22 (Nokia Siemens Networks), Athens.
IMTC Blog: What are the major goals for IMTC at 2011? What are the major interoperability issues for 2011 (in Ericsson, in the industry as a whole)?
Mr.Gabin: Firstly, with more and more fragmentation in the various multimedia standards and fast pace deployments, for example in streaming services, one major goal for IMTC is to avoid fragmentation itself and focus on the most relevant standards and services. Secondly, the ongoing deployments of LTE networks around the world should drive a focus on VoLTE terminal interoperability undertaken in the IMS AG . This group should grow by involving more operators and device vendors.
We thank Frédéric for his time and dedication.
As always, If your company does IMS, VoLTE – Join IMTC to help shape the future of Telecommunication Interoperability.
Frédéric Gabin can be reached via E-mail: frederic.gabin@ericsson.com or LinkedIN – http://fr.linkedin.com/in/fredericgabin
Frédéric Gabin, Ericsson
For the first time All 3 operators in France, Telefonica and Orange in Spain and all operators in Korea – They all work together in coordinated launches.
Are there any RCS applications currently available or in Beta?
Jose: That’s where solaiemes is focused: Createing APIs so the innovation powerhouse out there in the net can use RCS for things we can’t even think of. That’s exactly what I presented in the IMTC 2025 presentation – How do you put triple play services in a device/screen where you can’t easily deploy a full software client? My IMTC presentation contains test cases (http://solaiemes.com/index.php?id=94)
Today, some of the features of mobile devices aren’t inter-operable – 3G video calls and iPhone Facetime – Will RCS applications will be interoperable with high end smartphone applications?
