ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. and Telenor R&D announced that after teaming up to develop converged services, they are now able to deliver Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem-based services over Nokia’s broadband platform, along with Voice over Internet calls between mobile and fixed Session Initiation Protocol clients.
Nokia’s joint project with the research and design unit of Scandinavian operator Telenor began in 2005 to assess how different IP services could be delivered over multiple access technologies like WLAN, DSL, GSM and W-CDMA.
Nokia noted that it has already developed IMS solutions that enable services such as Push to talk over Cellular and video sharing.
“The shift towards IP convergence over the next few years is clear to Telenor,” stated Hans-Christian Haugli, chief executive of Telenor R&D. “Introducing an IMS-based architecture is central to this development.”
The trials are scheduled to continue through 2006, the companies said.
