NextPoint(TM), a leader in fixed-mobile connectivity (FMC) solutions, announced today availability of its enhanced IP Multimedia Exchange (IMX). The latest version of the IMX supports the deployment of IP services based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture specified by 3GPP and extended for ETSI-TISPAN, and the GSM Association (GSMA) IP Packet eXchange (IPX) and MultiService Forum (MSF). The IMX is part of the NextPoint IntelliConnect(R) System product suite.
BARCELONA, Spain (Business Wire EON) February 11, 2008 --
NextPoint™, a leader in fixed-mobile
connectivity (FMC) solutions, announced today availability of its
enhanced IP Multimedia Exchange (IMX). The latest version of the IMX
supports the deployment of IP services based on the IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) architecture specified by 3GPP and extended for
ETSI-TISPAN, and the GSM Association (GSMA) IP Packet eXchange (IPX) and
MultiService Forum (MSF). The IMX is part of the NextPoint IntelliConnect®
System product suite.
Under the auspices of GSMA-led trials, NextPoint completed extensive
interoperability testing of the IMX as a critical IPX network element,
with leading mobile operators, service providers and network equipment
providers in Asia and Europe. The GSMA developed a network architecture
based on the IPX, a hub network topology, for efficiently
interconnecting mobile operators together. NextPoint’s
experience in the testing will help accelerate deployment and time to
market of FMC applications and services. In addition, the NextPoint
Community of more than 550 service providers and enterprises worldwide
will provide a rapid IPX interconnect opportunity.
NextPoint IMX Addresses Complexity at the Services Layer
As service providers begin to deploy IMS-based services, their
requirements for interoperability and interworking with other mobile and
fixed-line operators at the services layer become increasingly more
complex. Mobile operators in particular are faced with this challenge as
subscribers roam and a diversity of handsets proliferates. Wireline
carriers and mobile operators are defining more advanced requirements
for billing and settlement, application- and network-based service level
agreements (SLAs), quality of service (QoS) management, call admission
control, session-based least cost and time-of-day routing, call hunting
and security. Multiple network deployment scenarios need to be
implemented including IPX hubbing, bilateral peering and multilateral
peering using ENUM for number resolution. Session border controller
capabilities must be enhanced to meet these needs, and a broader
technology set is required.
“The implementation of IMS-based services has
moved from the interoperability working group stage to network trials
and deployment. NextPoint provides the broadest feature set and solution
to meet service providers’ needs as they
pursue the benefits of FMC,” said Mark
Pugerude, CMO of NextPoint. “The deployment
experience that NextPoint fostered by deploying session border control,
session routing, network-wide QoS and session visibility can now be
directly applied to the IMS and IPX service infrastructure model.”
Enabling Multimedia Services with NextPoint IMX
NextPoint’s IMX fully leverages the
functionality of the NextPoint IntelliConnect System to enable service
providers to quickly support IP services that span both IMS and Next
Generation IP networks to generate revenue streams independent of
network architecture choice. The NextPoint IMX supports IP-based
end-to-end voice services and delivery of revenue-generating enriched
multimedia applications, including video-sharing, gaming, instant
messaging, push-over-cellular (PoC), conferencing and presence.
“In an all-IP environment, subscribers’
expectations for end-to-end ‘quality of
experience’ will continue to grow. They will
necessitate solutions for end-to-end policy control,”
said Akshay Sharma, Research Director, Gartner. “Within
next generation networks, service providers need a solution for applying
policy management across multiple secured interconnects, ensuring a
seamless experience.”
“The IPX model, with its flexible billing
structure, quality and security, will have a strong influence on
session-based IP Interconnect services,” said
Ajay Joseph, CTO of iBasis. “NextPoint has
been a valuable contributor in the interoperability testing that is a
vitally important component of the GSMA IPX trials and future commercial
deployments.”
Meeting the requirements for deploying IP multimedia services for IPX
and direct peering architectures requires the integration of multiple
standards-compliant technology sets. NextPoint is an active and
longstanding member of a number of global standards bodies, including
the MultiService Forum and IMS Forum, and is committed to working with
the global telecommunications industry to further interoperability
across fixed and mobile networks, supporting all media types.
NextPoint IMX is based on a third-generation software platform that is
IMS-standards and GSMA-IPX requirements compliant and incorporates the
session routing and ENUM functionality set from the NextPoint MSX. The
combined feature set gives service providers the richest solution
available.
Enhanced NextPoint IMX Features
The NextPoint IMX’s key features include
stateful SIP dialog processing, call admission control, number/domain
translation, ENUM, SIP routing, topology hiding, IPV4/IPV6 interworking,
TCP, TLS, IPSec, Tel:URI, customizable call detail records (CDRs),
Denial of Service (DoS) prevention, media proxy, media QoS, VLANs and
DiffServ. When used in conjunction with the NextPoint RSM and
session-level visibility, QoS can be enabled on a real-time basis.
The NextPoint IMX also provides secure connectivity to IMS networks
using intelligent identity mechanisms, including access control lists,
SIP/TLS certificates, and DNS checks that authenticate subscribers and
protect against SIP security.
About NextPoint
NextPoint Networks (www.nextpointnetworks.com)
delivers global, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) border platforms and
secure interconnectivity solutions that enable mobile and fixed-line
operators to interoperate. NextPoint's technology platform, products and
solution suites address the evolving needs of mobile and fixed-line
operators for increasing security and intelligence at the network edge
by delivering secure voice, data and multimedia over a scalable
platform. Over 550 service providers and enterprises worldwide use
NextPoint’s IntelliConnect System across
multiple, diverse network technologies and operating systems to manage
technical complexities, optimize business economics, and remove
partnership hurdles.
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Key words/tags: IP multimedia exchange platform, session border
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