Lucent Technologies has won the business of SureWest Broadband, which plans to deploy technology from the vendor’s Accelerate Next Generation Communications solutions to deliver VoIP services to customers in Roseville and Sacramento, Calif.
Customers will have a Web-based interface to customize their calling services such as simultaneous ringing and features such as find-me follow me and Web-based end user provisioning for feature activation, access and setup.
SureWest is using the Lucent Compact Switch, Lucent Feature Server and Lucent Communication Manager to migrate from Class 5 to IP. Lucent Worldwide Services will provide installation, maintenance services and integration services.
Michael Cooper, next generation network planning and global marketing director for Bell Laboratories, says Lucent is introducing a mini chassis for this server to allow smaller service providers – particularly CLECs displaced by the recent UNE-P regulatory changes -- to get started in VoIP. It’s a chassis that’s 10 to 12 cards wide, he says, but with the same Linux-based OS and other features as the existing server.
Cooper adds that service providers deploy IMS, there are a lot of ways to make that move. This new solution, he says, will be a good option for companies getting into IMS incrementally because it provides a single subscriber database and its internal server interfaces talk to one another in IMS, so they can later talk to outside elements with IMS.
He adds that soon Lucent will announce session manager, “which is the core of what IMS is all about” Lucent is now in trials with this product, he says.
In the next six months, he adds, look for Lucent to talk about the relationship between IMS, IPTV and Web services . “IMS is the unifying factor of all these services,” he says.
