Intelligent Design or Dumb Design?
In his VON Fall 2005
presentation, Mike Coffee, Commetrex' CEO said: "Just as the business of
building roads is not the business of building trucks nor hauling goods,so too
the business of building networks is not the business of building network
equipment nor the business of offering value-adding services."
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) from the 3GPP and the NGN
Framework from the ATIS hold the promise of finally separating services from
transport and creating efficient interworking between applications. Check out
the "CEO Letter" on our Website (http://www.commetrex.com/CEO_letter.html)
for a fresh opinion about these developments. Is it intelligent design or dumb
design? You decide.
For further discussion, contact Mike Coffee 770.449.7775
x310 or mcoffee@commetrex.com
IMS: Will it Do the Job?
The next big step in telecom
market maturation will be the separation of services and transport. And there's
a good chance that the 3GPP's IMS will be the needed catalyst. The wireless
industry is moving in that direction and the wireline service providers appear
to be following suit. But the recent Supreme Court ruling on NCTA v. Brand X
reaffirmed that the cable companies could keep their systems closed to
competitive service providers. Oh, well. Give it time. Eventually, Congress
may do something about it, or possibly, IMS will reach market critical mass and
pull in the cable operators. We'll see.
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a service-network
architecture for the enterprise, wireline, and wireless network service provider.
(Note the absence of "cable" in the list.) Notable is its transport
and access-network independence. IMS decomposes the service network into
entities with specialized functionality. The value-adding services can be
common to any number of carriers and enterprises. And subscribers can access
services provided by all of them.
Media services are provided by the "Media Resource
Function" (MRF), which is further decomposed into the "Media Resource
Function Controller" (MRFC) and the "Media Resource Function Processor"
(MRFP), roughly consistent with the media gateway and media gateway controller
decomposition.
Commetrex' BladeWare is a licensed telephony-middleware
software product that makes it easy for an OEM to addresses the IMS market for
these functions. Check out BladeWare at http://www.commetrex.com/BladeWare_front.html
For more information on cost and delivery of BladeWare, contact Mike Coffee
770.449.7775 x310 or mcoffee@commetrex.com.
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You Should Be at VON
If you haven't planned to attend
VON Fall 2005 at the Boston Convention Center, September 19-22, it's not too
late to register. Register online by September 18th, at http://www.von.com/register.html
and enter COMMETREX as your priority code to receive $200 off the VON Package or
full conference pricing, or to receive a FREE pass for the Expo portion only.
Now in its 9th year, the Voice on the Net Show (VON) is
the definitive IP communications conference and expo, attracting over 7,500
communications-industry executives from 40+ countries worldwide. Understand the "present
future" of VoIP markets, technology, and regulation at the VON Conference.
And see over 300 technology leaders showcase the latest technology in the VON
exhibit hall. Don't forget to visit Commetrex in Booth #1405.
Commetrex Subsidiary Awarded Patent
Commetrex subsidiary, NetGen
Communications, has been awarded patent #6,931,111, "Methods and Systems
for Providing Telecommunications Services." This is an interesting patent
as its 20 claims encompass a method of providing telecommunications and IT
services, such as PBX, conferencing, and so on, where the provider places a
computer ("service node") on the subscriber's premises. The provider's
remote server provisions the communications service. The service node and the
server then provide the telecommunications function. The idea is to make all
telecom and IT functions a subscribed service for the small-to-medium-sized
business.
NetGen is seeking partners in its commercialization of
the patent. If interested, please contact Mike Coffee at mcoffee@commetrex.com.
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