What is the MobileIGNITE™?
• MobileIGNITE is an independent industry association of leading service providers and vendors that collaborate on accelerating the time to market for multi-vendor fixed-mobile convergence solutions that work in existing fixed and mobile networks with a smooth transition to the IP Multimedia System (IMS) environment |
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– Interoperability development and testing of MobileVoIP solutions. |
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– Reducing integration risks, costs and time-to-market for service provider trials and deployments. |
• Accelerates converged communications by developing best practices that can be used by service providers to accelerate the market.
• MobileIGNITE members establish voluntary marketing and interoperability committees.
• Promotes open standard end-to-end interoperable solutions through industry collaboration for mobile voice and data service delivery and to bring mobile to IP communications services, it improves the following: |
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– quality
– coverage
– cost |
| Is the MobileIGNITE Program a standards group? |
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– No, the industry has enough standards. We seek to create new services based on interoperability between vendors and service providers. |
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– If existing standards have to be extended to allow the required functionality, the extensions will either be openly submitted to existing standards bodies or openly published within a short period of time. |
| What do MobileIGNITE members have in common? |
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– Members believe in |
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• Solutions that are access network agnostic and flexible for different kinds of service providers.. |
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• SS7 & SIP & IMS & IEEE 802.11x / IEE 802.16x open standards.
– Where value is not based on protected protocols but on broad interoperability and flexibility. |
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• Deploying interoperable products for today’s networks early with a commitment to migrate to IMS compliance and interoperability. |
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• That IMS is the core network standard for future Next Generation Networks Convergence. |
| What is the role of service providers in the MobileIGNITE? |
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– Service providers are invited to join MobileIGNITE to help with the planning of MobileVoIP convergence solutions. |
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– MobileIGNITE members will have opportunities to participate with these service providers in the pre-commercial phase: |
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• Development of best practices and test cases for FMC solutions. |
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• Demonstrations, tests and trials of MobileIGNITE solutions. |
| How do I sign up for the MobileIGNITE MoU? |
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– Download an application from www.mobileignite.org |
| What kind of terminals? |
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– All types of SIP capable terminals: |
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• Analog telephone adapters and home gateways |
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• PC and PDA soft phones |
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• Fixed SIP phones |
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• Wi-Fi cordless phones |
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• Combo mobile phones and PDAs:
Wi-Fi/GSM, Wi-Fi/CDMA, Wi-Fi/3G |
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• Also Wi-Max when available |
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– Client software |
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• For both open OS and embedded terminals |
| What other kinds of MobileVoIP solutions elements does MobileIGNITE address? |
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– Mobile core network infrastructure |
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• HLR |
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• MSC |
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• SMSC, MMSC |
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• Mobile IN elements (SCP) |
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• Signaling gateways (STPs, SIGTRAN) |
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– VoIP core network infrastructure |
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• Media gateways |
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• Media gateway controllers and soft-switches |
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• Session border controllers |
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– SIP call control platforms outside the mobile network |
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• Wireline VoIP soft-switches |
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• Cable soft-switches |
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• IP-Centrex feature servers |
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• IP-PBX systems |
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– Hosted interconnect environments |
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• SS7 backbone |
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• SIP peering networks |
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– IMS core network infrastructure |
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• HSS |
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• CSCF |
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• MG, MGCF, BGCF |
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• MRFP, MRFC |
