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Verizon Pushes Network Limits

Via Red Herring.

In an unusual move, Verizon Wireless, the second-largest mobile carrier in the United States, announced a technology advancement project Thursday that involves five of its largest equipment suppliers, the companies that normally control the development of new technology.

The project involves pushing the limits of a standard called the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which describes an efficient means of providing multimedia services such as voice, video, data, and mobile on a common IP network.

Verizon Wireless Chief Technical Officer Dick Lynch said his company has been working with Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks, and Qualcomm for about a year on the enhancement to IMS, appropriately called A-IMS for Advances to IMS.

A-IMS, which was developed by a Verizon Wireless task force made up of the five prominent U.S.-based telecommunications companies, adds functions that were not completely accommodated in the standards development process.

posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2006 09:56:00 AM