Products, Convergence, IMS, Global: Huawei has announced the commercial introduction of its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) 3.0 solution aimed at providing an open architecture for the development of multimedia services.

Facing the challenges of intense competition and limited innovation of new services, Huawei IMS 3.0 is promoted as the first commercial Fixed/Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution in the industry that complies with both 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and TISPAN (Telecoms & Internet converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks). In addition it is described as providing an open architecture over which service providers, platform providers, and terminal providers can work together to introduce diversified multimedia services. With the solution, carriers can create a subscriber-focused architecture based on FMC and CT-IT convergence, which opens up network and service capabilities, and promotes a healthy environment for IMS applications.

Based on a common hardware and software platform, Huawei IMS solution can help simplify network deployment and decrease capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX) for carriers.

With the deployment of the IMS 3.0 solution, Huawei believes that this open, converged All-IP form of architecture will become a platform for innovations which will benefit carriers, consumers and Huawei’s partners in services, platforms and terminal domains.

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