Hewlett-Packard announced today a new software product and a multimedia service to help carriers provide “triple-play” services of voice, video and data. Pricing wasn’t immediately available.
The software-based media server, the HP OpenCall Media Platform Media Resource Function (MRF), is designed to support advanced multimedia and interactive services in Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. IMS is an emerging next-generation networking architecture designed for VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and multimedia services.
HP also announced a new service called Mobile MusicSharing. HP has partnered with Movial and Ubiquity Software to provide the service, which will allow mobile users to join a conference call, listen to their favorite music and talk about it at the same time.
The next 12 months will be critical for the future of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), as carriers begin to deploy IMS-specific systems and determine whether it can deliver on its promises, according to Heavy Reading analyst Graham Finnie.
IMS allows a service provider to deliver identical IP services to fixed and mobile customers, whether the final connection is a switched or circuit network, explains Unstrung. As a result, it is seen as a cornerstone of carriers’ fixed/mobile convergence strategies.
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