As January 2007 In-Stat report predicts that the number of subscribers to IMS-based services will grow from 10 million this year to more than 500 million by 2011. At this time, VoIP has emerged as the leading application for IMS.
For Nortel, this is a particular area of strength. Synergy Research Group ranks our company number one in the global market for carrier VoIP, and we’ve
installed more than 300 such networks. This has well prepared us for delivering the next-generation of VoIP and helping operators build a foundation for IMSbased services.
Nortel also has real-world experience in other key IMS pillars, such as SIP multimedia, wireless IP core networking, and wireless access technologies from 2G to the most recent 4G innovations.
As with our WiMAX ecosystem, we’ve worked in a similar fashion to assemble one around IMS. IBM and BEA are just two of our partners. Additionally, we’ve
taken a lead role in promoting interoperability and recently sponsored the GMI 2006 test fest, which provided an opportunity for some of the industry’s
leading companies to work together on testing and resolving issues related to interoperability.
At present, Nortel has IMS contracts and pilots with 18 leading operators in wireline, cable, CDMA and GSM/UMTS markets. This includes an evaluation of
our IMS multi-vendor interoperability and full support voice services over fiber to the premise that Verizon is conducting in its Massachusetts lab.
If you think about this next-generation of the communications experience, the problems that you have to solve are not in a single domain. Companies that
have the potential to solve them must understand wireless and wireline. They also have to understand carrier and enterprise as well as infrastructure and applications.
Nortel has earned experience in all of these areas over many years and is deeply engaged in developing the technology solutions that will help service providers and all of us as individual users to capitalize on the mega trends we’ve just discussed and create the kind of personal broadband of which we’re all dreaming.
"If you think about this next-generation of the communications experience, the problems that you have to solve are not in a single domain. Companies that have the
potential to solve them must understand wireless and wireline."
Richard Lowe
President
Mobility and Converged Core Networks, Nortel
