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VoLTE/RCS interoperability tested by Alcatel-Lucent (RCR Mobile Minute)

Alcatel-Lucent and D2 Technologies are reporting successful tests of voice over LTE with software that supports rich communications services over IP networks. By pairing Alcatel-Lucent’s VoLTE solution with D2’s client software, the companies are trying to offer service providers a way to quickly commercialize services like video chat on LTE networks.

Carriers are looking to VoLTE as a way to combat the over-the-top threat posed by voice-over-IP providers like Skype. VoLTE moves voice calls to IP networks, meaning that voice calls are digital and can potentially integrate Web-based services.

At the same time VoIP companies are adding video to their offering and making inroads with enterprise customers looking for reliable alternatives to expensive video conferencing software. Combining VoLTE with Web-based RCS could be an important step for operators that want to offer customers the best of both worlds.

“Alcatel-Lucent is poised to push the needle forward for VoLTE and RCS adoption worldwide,” said Doug Makishima, COO of D2 Technologies. “By emphasizing native support for RCS and VoLTE, we can ensure that mobile phone users are able to take full advantage of an optimized and richer communications experience that’s built into the phone.” D2 Technologies said it has successfully shown how IP-based communications like RCS, VoLTE (IR.92), VoWiFi, and IR.94 video calling can be seamlessly combined with traditional GSM CS and text message communications.

Carriers have supported RCS as a standard for application interoperability, and now VoLTE interoperability intiatives are emerging. Verizon Communications and AT&T are working with the GSMA to enable VoLTE interoperability between their two networks.

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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.