Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Acme Packet plans to enhance IP Multimedia Subsystem support for wireless services

Acme Packet and Nortel Mobile World Congress announcements
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Acme Packet plans to enhance IP Multimedia Subsystem support for wireless services

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
The Mobile World Congress is being held this week in Barcelona, and several companies pre-released announcements in connection with the conference. Today, we'll focus on Acme Packet's plans to enhance IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) support for wireless services, and about Nortel's continued support for carrier IP services with the release of new software for the Communication Server (CS) 2000. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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