Alcatel-Lucent CAR2888080520 User Manual

Alcatel-Lucent
End-to-End IMS Solution

Bringing IMS and the Internet together

Traditional service providers now face competition

from Internet players who have developed conver-

sational services, such as IM and VoIP, based on the

Internet architecture and Web 2.0. Alcatel-Lucent

offers solutions built on our IMS architecture,

configurable to address the unique needs of each

service provider as they deal with the changing

competitive landscape and the latest communica-

tions trends. With a user-oriented approach, the

Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End IMS Solution lets service

providers offer interpersonal communication

(using web, multimedia, messaging and conversa-

tional services), user-experience continuity across

devices and networks, instant access anywhere

and self-service personalization, delivering blended

lifestyle services to consumers and enterprise users.

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The changing competitive landscape

The rapid rise of Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) and Web 2.0 technologies has, in many ways,
lowered the barriers to market entry for organizations
that want to compete with traditional telecommunica­tions providers. As a result, a growing number of service
providers now must consider companies such as Google
and Yahoo as significant competitors for consumer and
business-subscriber revenues. You are under intense
pressure to rapidly move away from rigid network
infrastructures and service delivery platforms. At some
point in the future, these environments will be replaced
by a standard, open and more flexible IP network
infrastructure that can accommodate:

•Multipletrafctypes(voice,data,video)

•Avarietyofaccesstypes(wiredandwireless)

•VariousQualityofService(QoS)performance

requirements

•Avarietyofnewandemergingbusinessmodels

In the meantime, incumbent telecom operators must
develop a hybrid migration strategy that leverages existing
network infrastructures to enable a new generation of
services. To meet these new demands, you will need to
offer consumers and businesses the ability to mix and
match capabilities at will: voice, data, video over
broadband-wired or -wireless infrastructures.

This transformation must be executed while designing an
end-to-end architecture that will cost-effectively guide you
toward an optimal next-generation networking environment.

Alcatel-Lucent offers customized solutions built upon our
IMS architecture to address the unique needs of each ser­vice provider as you deal with the latest communication
trends and the changing competitive landscape. While

continuingtoofferenhancedpremiumVoIPservices,

the Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End IMS Solution focuses on
a user-oriented approach, so you can offer interpersonal
communications using web, multimedia, messaging and
conversational services, user-experience continuity across
devices and networks, instant access anywhere and
self-service personalization, delivering blended lifestyle
services to your consumers and enterprise users.

A major wireless telco we interviewed sees access agnosti­cism as the biggest draw: “We don’t want more vertical
services, we want ‘service delivery over anything’, so we want
everything available over our existing 3G interface, and the
ability to transfer that whole environment to DSL. If every­thing is managed for you via (the IMS) network, then all your
information is magically transferred to your PC, or whatever
device you’re using — and that’s a really powerful proposition
for users, and very important to us.”

Heavy Reading, July, 2007

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Anytime, anywhere, on any device

The Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End
IMS Solution is designed for fixed,
mobile and converged networks. It
supports multiple access technologies,
including Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA), Worldwide In­teroperability for Microwave Access
(WiMAX), Global System for Mobile
Communications/Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System (GSM/
UMTS), and any digital subscriber
line (xDSL).

The solution is composed of network
elements spanning the application,
session control and connectivity
layers. All products are IMS compli­ant, carrier grade, based on open
standards and IT platforms, and have
been fully tested in leading industry
standards and interoperability forums:
the Global System for Mobile Com­munications Association (GSMA),
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA),
Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) and the Multiservice
Switching Forum (MSF).

Integrating a Web 2.0 front end
with IMS features in various web
environments, such as Network
Address Book (NAB) and Presence
Management, creates a cost-effective
way to offer IMS services such as:

•ConsumerVoIP

•VoiceCallContinuity

(dual-mode service)

•Videoshare

•Enablingnewapplicationsthrough

Web 2.0 and widget mashups

Alcatel-Lucent Compact IMS

The Alcatel-Lucent Compact IMS
supports up to 160,000 subscribers,
and provides a suitable architecture
for trials and for cost-effective
deployments by Tier-2 operators. This
product reduces costs by providing
internal components for the Home
Subscriber Server (HSS), Charging
Collection Function (CCF) and
Lawful Intercept functions. It
provides Session Management,

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