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MobileIGNITE Adds Eight
New Members
E28, BCT Global, Convergin,
FG Microtec, HelloSoft Netrake, New Heights Software and tekVizion,
Join Group Supporting Faster Convergence of Mobile and VoIP
FMC CONFERENCE LONDON – 25
January 2006 - MobileIGNITE,
the leading industry association fostering collaboration to accelerate
Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), today announced that it has added
seven new members. Leaders of MobileIGNITE, which stands for
Mobile Integrated Go-To-Market Network IP Technology, made the
announcement at the Informa Telecoms Fixed Mobile Convergence
Congress and EXPO in London today. The new members are E28, BCT
Global, Convergin, FG Microtec, HelloSoft Netrake, New Heights
Software and tekVizion.
The new members have agreed to the group’s tenets of working
on open standards-based interoperability and leveraging SIP (Session
Initiation Protocol) with a commitment to IMS (IP-multi-media
Subsystem), the industry’s leading blueprint for convergence.
The solutions and expertise each new member provides are described
below.
- E28 provides a Linux mobile smart device and hardware design
platform provides the mobile manufacturers and operators with
flexible solutions to various levels from a PCB board to the
whole device. The Linux mobile smart device software platform
based on hardware platform of E28 is a total solution developed
for the manufacturers and the operators.
- BCT (Broadband Communications Technologies, Pty. Ltd.) Global
is a South African-based multi-stage consulting and technology
integration firm working to implement convergence solutions
including Wi-Fi and WiMax infrastructure and dual mode devices
based on open standards.
- Convergin provides leading FMC and Service Capability
Interaction Management (SCIM) solutions. Utilizing Convergin's
Wireless Convergence Server, service providers can accelerate
deployments of IMS, and enable seamless orchestration of mobile,
legacy and next generation core network elements.
- FG Microtec is a provider of embedded software and applications
for real-time IP communication over different access networks
such as UMTS, GPRS or Wi-Fi. Its solutions include QoS mechanisms,
IMS framework clients, Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC), VoIP
and Video applications based on standards supported by the
3GPP IMS, IETF, OMA and ITVT.
- HelloSoft offers highly integrated standards-compliant
VoIP, WLAN and Cellular convergence technologies to major semiconductor
companies, ODMs and OEMs. HelloSoft’s offerings enable
cost-effective, low-power and high performance mass deployment
of multi-mode mobile and portable communication devices.
Netrake is a leading provider to fixed and mobile service providers
for real-time delivery of voice and multimedia solutions across
IP networks. Utilizing Netrake’s session border controllers
and security gateways, service providers can leverage market
leading security capabilities, scalability, and feature richness
to interconnect and secure networks and users.
- New Heights Software
offers soft-clients which extract the value of today’s
SIP/IMS, MGCP and proprietary networks, and integrate feature-rich
call control with enterprise applications to enable a unified,
contextual communications environment for fixed and mobile
users.
- tekVizion
provides independent consulting, custom applications, integration
and support, and testing through tekVizion Labs™--
the first interoperability certification lab of its kind, for
the telecommunications industry.
“Companies that join MobileIGNITE understand the advantage and benefit
of driving MobileVoIP deployment based on existing open standards,” said
Sanjay Jhawar, the Chairman of MobileIGNITE’s Executive Steering Committee. ”Our
members envision a scenario with interconnected fixed network environments
and mobile network environments, in any combination, including GSM or CDMA
on the mobile side, and with fixed broadband, cable, and ISP environments on
the other. MobileIGNITE aims to ensure a tight integration of all these network
linkages to generate new revenues to carriers of all types.”
“This is the year that carriers - beyond BT - will
likely start to offer hand-offs between wireless VoIP at home
or in the office, and wide-area cell networks in the real world,” said
Peter Jarich of Virginia-based Current Analysis. “MobileIGNITE’s
role with multi-party interoperability testing should help
to smooth carrier deployment of such offerings, while supporting
a transition to IMS.”
The new members, E28, BCT Global, Convergin, FG Microtec, HelloSoft,
Netrake, New Heights Software and tekVizion now join initial
MobileIGNITE existing members: 724 Solutions, Apertio, Acme Packets,
Aruba Networks, Boingo Wireless, BridgePort Networks, Centile,
CoreMobility, CounterPath, Kyocera Wireless, Net2Phone, PCTEL,
QualPhone, Reef Point Systems, SIPquest, Sylantro, Tekelec, TapRoot,
VeriSign, Vivox, and WorldCell.
About MobileIGNITE
MobileIGNITE is an independent industry association of leading
service providers and vendors that collaborate on accelerating
the time to market for multi-vendor fixed-mobile convergence
solutions that work in existing fixed and mobile networks with
a smooth transition to the IP Multimedia System (IMS) environment.
Key initiatives include interoperability specification, market
requirements development and liaison with industry standards
organizations and other industry groups. Further information
and application procedures may be found at www.mobileignite.org.
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