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IMS for consumer VoIP is a great first step, says Alcatel-Lucent

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IMS for consumer VoIP is a great first step, says Alcatel-Lucent

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Continuing our short series on the deployment status of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) among carriers, today we'll hear from Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's leading end-to-end IMS suppliers. We recently interviewed David Withington, marketing director for applications at Alcatel-Lucent. According to Withington, Alcatel-Lucent strongly believes that IMS is a great solution for consumer VoIP and that by first deploying an IMS-based VoIP architecture, carriers could then enable many other IMS compatible applications. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com

Larry Hettick is a Principal Analyst at Current Analysis, the leading provider of competitive response solutions. A 25
year industry veteran, he has focused on Convergence and VoIP since 2000.


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