PARIS, Aug. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent
(Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is to deploy its Rapport™
communications software with the world's largest telecommunications
service provider, China Mobile, enabling it to simplify and
consolidate video, voice and messaging services onto a single
platform.
As a result of the deployment, China Mobile will be able to
offer high-quality, high-definition VoLTE (voice over LTE) services
for the first time in China,
paving the way for future cloud-based services.
China Mobile will be able to leverage Rapport's native APIs and
WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications) capabilities to create new
contextual applications and services, enabling subscribers to
personalize how they connect with others using video, voice and
messaging on any connected device. The deployment will also set the
stage for China Mobile to offer new services through the use of
voice over Wi-Fi®.
In addition to enhancing the subscriber experience with all-IP
services, VoLTE allows communications providers such as China
Mobile to migrate 3G networks to LTE and re-use spectrum, to
realize new cost and operational efficiencies.
China Mobile will deploy Rapport in nine provinces, including
some of the most densely populated provinces in China with the highest GDP, such as the
coastal provinces of Jiangsu and
Zhejiang, as well as the cities of
Shanghai and Chongqing.
Key Facts:
- In China Mobile's first
central bid for VoLTE, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy Rapport in nine
provinces. This follows the signing of a comprehensive frame
agreement in June 2015 for the
delivery of ultra-broadband access, IP networking and NFV
technologies.
- Using the Rapport communications software China Mobile will
provide its consumer and business customers with new video, voice
and messaging services regardless of device or whether they are in
a fixed or mobile environment.
- Alcatel-Lucent will deploy the full suite of Rapport
communications software including CSCF (Call Session Control
Function), Application Servers and Session Border Controllers.
- Rapport communications software is based on a fully
re-architected version of the Alcatel-Lucent IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS), the foundation for the company's award-winning
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology.
- Alcatel-Lucent is the VoLTE market leader with more than 128
million VoLTE subscriber licenses shipped[1] and offers
a complete VoLTE and VoWiFi solution, including the LTE RAN, EPC,
IMS, Motive, and Professional Services.
- An NFV-based (network functions virtualization) solution,
Rapport will enable China Mobile to benefit from efficiencies made
available by NFV as their customers' data demands change and more
devices connect to the network. China Mobile is also conducting a
trial of Rapport for an NFV-based VoLTE solution.
- In a recent study of smartphone users, Alcatel-Lucent
identified new opportunities for service providers to differentiate
their offers using the Rapport communications software. Results are
being published in a set of reports titled "5,504 Smartphone
Consumers Can't be Wrong – 7 New Mobile Service
Opportunities".
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Bhaskar Gorti, President of
Alcatel-Lucent's IP Platforms business, said: "Rapport was
created to simplify communication networks for service providers
such as China Mobile. The new platform allows them to seamlessly
deliver superior revenue-generating VoLTE services together with
video and messaging, allowing their subscribers to communicate in
whichever way they prefer, wherever they are and using any fixed or
mobile device."
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[1] *As of March 31,
2015
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