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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Cingular Wireless Selects Lucent Technologies’ IMS-Based Solution
Monday, October 17, 2005
Atlanta and Murray Hill, N.J. – Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that Cingular has awarded Lucent a four-year agreement to provide a comprehensive IMS-based (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution that will enable Cingular to rapidly develop and launch a broad range of new personalized voice, video, data and multimedia services.
Lucent’s IMS-based architecture and applications will complement Cingular’s 3G network and enable Cingular to offer subscribers innovative, easy-to-use services that they can access anytime, anywhere, with almost any device.
Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) will assist Cingular in the deployment and integration of Lucent’s solution. This includes multi-vendor integration and technical support services that will seamlessly connect and maintain a critical link between Cingular's core network and its new applications portal.
“Lucent’s IMS-based architecture, combined with our 3G UMTS/HSDPA network, will allow us to offer our customers new and exciting end-user experiences over one of the most advanced, reliable and secure networks in North America,” said Kelly Williams, executive director of strategy and planning for Cingular. “The IMS platform also provides Cingular with a cost effective process for delivering these new features and services.”
IMS is an open, standards-based solution to build next-generation networks capable of delivering advanced communications services. With a standards-based IMS architecture and solution that allow services to flow in a network-agnostic environment, service providers can build applications and have them work with numerous endpoints, producing the so-called “grand slam” of services -- voice, data, video and wireless/wired communications.
“Lucent offers a unique blend of Bell Labs enabled technology, expertise and an end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services to build and deliver next-generation networks that offer the easy-to-use services customers are clamoring for,” said Joe McCarthy, sales vice president for Lucent Technologies. ”Lucent’s IMS-based architecture enables Cingular to smoothly introduce new applications that customers can access anytime, anywhere, with any device, into its existing network while controlling operational and capital expense.”
Cingular will deploy components of Lucent's Accelerate™ Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio that consists of IMS-based products and applications, both with unique Bell Labs developed enhancements and services.
Among the available solutions and applications in this portfolio are the Lucent Session Manager, including the service broker function, the new Lucent Feature Server with support for mobile roaming using dual-mode devices, Lucent Unified Subscriber Data Server for wireless and wireline customers, Lucent Network Controller, Lucent Network Gateway, Lucent Communication Manager with next generation features, Lucent Active PhoneBook and Lucent MiLife® Application Server.
The Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Service Enhancement Layer is a library of Bell Labs software assets built into Lucent’s IMS elements and deployed within IMS standard functions that work across wireless, wireline, and WiFi networks to simplify and speed delivery of services. The Service Enhancement Layer offers a distinct advantage over competing IMS implementations by enhancing SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) processing, and supporting flexible service brokering, real-time policy management, and enhanced data management and integration, including access to data outside a service provider's network.
The Bell Labs enhancements support simple service management, seamless operations, secure communications, portable services, rich personalization, and rapid service customization.
About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 51.44 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(sm) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover®, the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/.
About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com.
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