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Bell Labs Service Enhancement Technologies Offer Unique Advantages to Lucent Technologies' IMS Solution

Posted on: Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 03:00 CST

CANNES, France, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the 3GSM World Congress trade show and exhibition today, Lucent Technologies announced the integration of six unique Bell Labs-developed software technologies into its industry-leading IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution, enabling converged network operators to create and deliver simple, seamless, secure, portable, and personal multimedia services to their subscribers. These software technologies are part of a new Service Enhancement Layer that gives Lucent's IMS solution -- part of Lucent's Accelerate(TM) Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio -- distinct advantages over competing IMS implementations.

IMS is an industry standard way of building next-generation networks that will deliver rich IP multimedia services to subscribers over wireless and/or wireline networks. Lucent's approach has resulted in an IMS solution that greatly enhances the ability of service providers to integrate existing applications into the IMS environment and introduce new Value Over IP(TM), VoIP and multimedia services simply and cost-effectively. The Bell Labs IMS service enhancements enable operators to more easily deliver services that blend voice, video and data capabilities, simplifying the creation of converged "lifestyle" service bundles. It also helps reduce the introduction costs and time-to-market for new services by leveraging a common applications infrastructure to deliver services with a common "look and feel" on third- generation (3G) mobile, WiFi, and wireline networks.

"Because of our leadership role in driving the development and adoption of the open standards-based IMS architecture, Bell Labs is able to take that architecture to the next level by enhancing the defined elements of IMS, and adding new capabilities required to deliver on the 'blended lifestyle' services vision," said Jeff Jaffe, president, Research and Advanced Technologies, at Lucent's Bell Labs. "Lucent's IMS Solution -- which leverages Bell Labs' unmatched expertise and experience in software innovation - incorporates technologies and techniques that improve upon the basic IMS standard dramatically."

The Service Enhancement Layer is a library of technologies that work across wireless and wireline networks to simplify and speed delivery of services. The layer lies above Lucent's standard IMS implementation. Among the Bell Labs technologies in Lucent's IMS Service Enhancement Layer, which are available to service providers today, are:

* For simple service management, a data management tool that integrates

the myriad databases that keep track of each subscriber's basic network

services such as call processing, messaging, and billing, so that all

this data is easily accessed by next-generation applications.

* For seamless operations, a data integration tool that provides a

unified view of personal profile information -- that may be stored on

different networks -- so that users and services can easily access this

information, while safeguarding the end-user's privacy.

* Also for seamless operations, a new service brokering capability that

allows the blending of multiple, existing and future services, while

ensuring that those services interact in a manner that provides a

positive, and customized end-user experience.

* For security in communications, the X.805 standard network security

framework, which was conceived and created by Bell Labs and adopted by

the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

* For portable services, a tool that provides subscribers access to voice

and data services, information and messages when roaming -- across a

wide variety of wireless and wireline networks -- outside their home

network.

* For personalization and rapid service customization, a new rules engine

-- distributed throughout the network -- that supports rich

personalization of end-user services, and enables network operators to

quickly modify network behaviors to target particular customer segments

or offer quality of service guarantees.

Also critical to successful implementation of IMS services is reliance on the Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, which Bell Labs helped develop. All IMS elements use SIP to communicate with each other.

About Bell Labs

Bell Labs, the R&D division of Lucent Technologies is the leading source of new communications technologies. It has generated more than 30,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting key communications technologies, including transistors, digital networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems. Bell Labs scientists have received eleven Nobel Prizes in Physics, nine U.S. National Medals of Science and eight U.S. National Medals of Technology(R). For more information about Bell Labs, visit its Web site at http://www.bell-labs.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 http://www.lucent.com/.

Lucent Technologies

CONTACT: Kurt Steinert of Lucent Technologies - Mobility Solutions,+1-973-386-8438 - office, or +1 908-285-1641 - mobile, ksteinert@lucent.com;or Dick Muldoon, +1-908-582-1616 (office), or +1 908-930-9391 (mobile),rpmuldoon@lucent.com

Web site: http://www.lucent.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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