14 DAY TRIAL // Cisco Systems has announced it will offer support for an evolving range of wireless standards that allow mobile carriers to offer more complex Internet Protocol services.
The networking giant announced it will update several o f its products with technology based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem standards, which were developed by the mobile operators community. The IMS standards were adopted to specify an architecture and protocols, based on which a wide range of IP-based services would become available to wireless networks.
So far, Cisco products offered only limited support for IP Multimedia Subsystem technology, but now the company will add support to more devices, mainly its 12000 IP router, which offers both the functionality of an IP edge router and a Session Border Control (SBC) device that controls and manages IP multimedia traffic using protocols like Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323.
Mobile operators will take full advantage of the new possibilities of their networks and the increased capacity by adapting IP services that run on wireline networks so they work in a mobile environment.