Business News Holding

Tag: hss

  • VoIP Equipment Sales Plummet, IMS Revenues Grow


    VoIP equipment purchases are decreasing at the expense of spending on the deployment of IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) technology, according to Infonetics Research.

    Worldwide sales of IMS equipment, including HSS (home subscriber servers), CSCF servers, and voice application servers, are forecast to jump 74 per cent in 2009 over 2008.

    However, worldwide VoIP revenue in Q1 totaled USD $600.4 million, down 33 per cent from the first quarter of 2008 – the sharpest quarterly decline ever.

    Diane Myers, directing analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research, said no product segment or region was immune to declines in the service provider VoIP equipment market.

    Diane Myers, Infonetics Research

    Most large Tier 1 service providers are coming to the end of major VoIP projects and most ILECs and PTTs have put PSTN migration plans on hold.

    She said the service provider VoIP equipment market had a "rough" first quarter, declining 29 per cent sequentially in worldwide revenue. "The market pause for VoIP equipment is being exacerbated by the global economic downturn as service providers put VoIP equipment purchases on hold," she said.

    "We are beginning to see a noticeable shift in spending from stand-alone VoIP networks to IMS deployments."

    Myers said that while the core IMS equipment segments, CSCF and HSS, are still small compared to the service provider VoIP market, deployments remain strong in EMEA and Asia Pacific.

    Infonetics’ IMS Deployment Tracker shows Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens, and Huawei leading the way with core IMS equipment.

    "The core IMS equipment market had an impressive quarter with $63.7 million in revenue," she added.

  • Swiss GSM Carrier in&phone Buys Blueslice's SDM Platform


    Blueslice Networks has sold a SIP-enabled ngHLR, HSS and AAA, bundled into one fully integrated solution, to Unify Mobile.

    The SDM platform is to be used by in&phone, one of its mobile operations in Switzerland.

    Montreal-based Blueslice’s CSP 3000 includes the ngHLR and its Advanced Low Cost Roaming solutions – giving in&phone the ability to offer subscribers new roaming features.

    It also means roaming charges can be significantly reduced or even eliminated.

    Blueslice said its patented Multi-IMSI will allow end-users to have a single subscription in the ngHLR containing multiple identities (IMSIs) in several countries or area codes.

    in&phone’s subscribers will be seen as "local" by the network and can roam across borders on multiple networks without paying roaming surcharges.

    Carel Begeer, founder and chief development officer of Unify Mobile, said the deal provided Unify with the tools to have multiple access technologies in multiple territories under a single user profile.

    "Cost and quality have been the main driving forces for our customers," said Begeer.

    "They want to use their mobile phone without the fear of paying huge roaming fees."

    Begeer, said in&phone, like many carriers, is faced with the challenges of modernizing aging networks while maintaining a high level of service at value prices.

    in&phones’ subscribers will be able to roam between GSM/UMTS and IP networks thanks to Blueslice’s ngHLR-based Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solution.