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IMTC VoLTE Webinar Recording
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The IMTC VoLTE Webinar was a great success with many viewers, questions and great presentations.
The Webinar video and presentation is now online:
IMTC VoLTE Webinar – Voice over LTE: Industry, Standardization and Market Realities and Perspectives
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Voice over LTE: Industry, Standardization and Market Realities and Perspectives Webinar
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
4G Networks are happening right now, delivering ever increasing bandwidth and speed to a myriad of devices all over the world. However, when it comes to voice, it is still done the “old fashion way”. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a set of standards (an IMS profile) and a technology which promises to bring Voice into the 21st Century as a real feature of 4G networks – but while everybody is talking about it, not everybody is “doing something about it.”
Join the group of experts from IMTC, GSMA and the communications industry to about the learn current state of VoLTE technology and its market realities and prospective. Is VoLTE ready for prime time? When will VoLTE deployment happen first? Are the equipment vendors, handset manufacturers and service providers ready to roll out VoLTE? Are the consumers ready and should they demand that VoLTE be available NOW? When are we going to see Video over LTE? Who drives VoLTE market adaption – is it an operator/vendor/industry groups push or is there a market pull from end users? What is the role of IMTC in advancing VoLTE standards and technology? If you want to get the answers for these as well as many other questions, please join IMTC VoLTE webinar on November 30th at 11:00 AM US Eastern Standard Time.
For additional details, and registration, please click here.
When – November 30th, 11AM Eastern Standard Time. Total 90 minutes.
Where – Scopia Videoconferencing System. (Click for Call-IN Details)
Moderator:
Carl Ford, Partner and Community Developer, Crossfire Media.
Speakers & Topics:
Dan Warren, GSMA - overall industry prospective, potential and new initiatives.
Manuel Vexler, CMO IMS Segment, Huawei – infrastructure vendor prospective.
Stefan Svensson, Senior Product Mgr, Telephony Evolution, Ericsson – infrastructure vendor prospective.
Tsahi Levent-Levi, IMTC IMS Activity Group chair, Radvision – IMTC IMS Activity Group prospective and software vendor prospective.
Geng Wu, chief architect and director of Wireless Technology Divison at Intel.
Geng Wu, chief architect and director of Wireless Technology Divison at Intel.
Full list of speakers and biographies can be found here.
Is there a place for Rich Communication Suite in the mobile future?
July 12, 2010 By 7 Comments
We have asked Jose M.Recio from Solaiemes to talk about RCS and to shed some more light about his IMTC 2025 presentation (Jose participated in the Triple Play Session and presented RCS examples).
Solaiemes creates communication solutions built upon the RCS features of the IMS standards.
RCS (Rich Communcation Suite) is an industy effort driven by a group of operators, infrastructure and device vendors – Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens networks, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, etc.
The main RCS features are -
Enchaned Phonebook, Messenging and Calls – Sharing of multimedia content, chat and presence that works across devices and operators.
I’ve asked Jose to talk a bit about RCS and his view on the mobile market:
Hi Jose, can you share your thoughts about RCS and how your what your company does in that field?
Jose: RCS, short for RichCommunicationSuite, it is a coordinated effort, driven by GSMA (the mobile industry association) and backed by the major players to develop a common set of “beyond-SMS-and-voice” basic enablers that are available out of the box in mobile, and work seamlessly across carriers and are also accessible from a PC/broadband client.
Think messaging, video-sharing, etc. available even in cheap handsets, preinstalled and working across carriers. One single use case for doing zillions of things.
Isn’t these features available on many smart-phones?
Jose: Yes, that’s true. But that there are billions of users that are using feature, cheap, phones.
Besides, carrier services are a bit more trusted, especially by businesses.
Being able to choose – would you develop a service that billions can use or an app that only the owners of a given handset running a given software version can access?
And what would be a good example of an application available to all? SMS!
If a user just knows how to send a SMS, he knows how to access millions of “applications”: insult politicians in TV, receive credit cards alerts, buy ringtones, and of course send a SMS to his loved one. RCS is meant just for that – to create the future mobile applications to be used across all devices – If done properly, RCS allows developers to go beyond SMS, with a richer experience. Many business cases will be discovered. Just leave the ecosystem time to develop.
Are there any devices that support RCS today?
Jose: The “traditional” Telco ecosystem is fully committed on paper to RCS. Devices: NSN, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG… there are Android and prototype iPhone clients. There is also an IOT event per quarter to test interoperability.
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?
Jose: That’s exactly the point, Many Services do not make sense any more from person-to-person. However they make a lot of sense when you introduce a business process or an application: SMS and video calls are very good examples.
The RCS applications that we see as successful would be the ones linked to business apps or cloud-based/community-based use cases.
Check for example the Twitter example in the previous Link – a user may have a native full twitter client (on high end smartphone, or a PC) or a RCS app (feature/simple devices) – Twitter will be the same for both.
SMS success for consumers and carriers (main source of data revenues) is based on ubiquitous presence of the basic enabler (every mobile phone supports SMS) and common use experience and use case. It doesn’t matter if you send or receive a SMS for voting in a TV program, buy a ringtone, get a notification of a credit card transaction, ect. It’s all the same.
On summery – Carries can either look for the SMS way: Common basic experience, based on a Telco enabler (RCS?), for many services. Or for the App way – try to grab one of the “must have” future few applications.
Based on what happened so far, it seems more reasonable to go for the first one – Carrier intermediating third parties offering services over the enabler.
IMTC SuperOp! 2010 – Continuing Advancing Interoperability
June 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
So the time is finally on. Long-planned and even postponed (thanks to the Iceland volcano with the unpronounceable name), IMTC SuperOp! 2010 is taking place in a small town of Jesi, near Ancona in Italy, June 14-18. Big Thank You to our hosts RADVISION Italy, Aethra.Net and Telecom Italia, as well as our sponsors Tandberg, Polycom, Cisco and Vidyo!
What is behind the name “SuperOp”, which sounds both big and cryptic at the same time? SuperOp!, a.k.a. “major interoperability event” is an annual gathering of IMTC member companies, getting together to conduct interoperability testing of IP Multimedia Communications solutions over one big network setting. Our First SuperOp!, took place in 1997, and then continued annually. SuperOp!’s goal is to help engineers to advance the level of interoperability of their companies’ products. Latest and greatest solutions, quite often include simply unreleased [yet] versions of software and hardware, that are tested for interoperability with each other. One can truly look at the SuperOp! as a giant development lab, where experts from the competing (sic!) companies work together to improve their products.
Is SuperOp! still relevant? It seems that interoperability is a key word, coming from every corner of the communications industry. From newly formed alliance, UCIF, which promises to focus on interoperability of unified communications, to the just announced Apple’s iPhone 4, which will provide video communications based on open standards, interoperability is a key topic for the whole industry. And interoperability is the major area where IMTC made the difference from day one – iNow profile and H.323 Forum Certification Program, numerous improvements in mobile video streaming standards and technologies, adapted by 3GPP, 3G-324M interoperability testing plans used by GCF as a foundation for certification program for mobile video telephony, MONA standardization in ITU-T, SIP Parity (video control enhancements over SIP) definitions which are now making it into IETF, and latest efforts in the GSMA VoLTE and Telepresence multi-streaming and TIP – these are IMTC contributions into making technologies better in the practical hands-on terms.
So what will be happening at the SuperOp! 2010? First of all, there will be a lot of interoperability testing done in all of the Activity Groups – video conferencing using both SIP and H.323 (thanks to the year long hard work of the SIP Parity activity group, SIP-based video communication is becoming a reality), IP video streaming in PSS Activity Group, mobile video conferencing using 3G-324M. Then there will be a traditional SuperConnect – all-participants with all the video conferencing devices, always done on the last day of the event. In addition to this traditional activities, this year IMTC will also conduct Telepresence Workshop, where industry leaders from Cisco, Polycom, Vidyo, AT&T and others will present current state of affairs in the Telepresence Interoperability and lay out the plans to make Telepresence ubiquitously interoperable (audience poll: who thinks it is achievable, raise your hands J). All in all, we are looking at a busy week, a lot of work and a lot of fun! IMTC is open for every company interested in improving interoperability of their products (and enjoying the process at the same time!), so … c’mon over!
