Alcatel-Lucent’s Rapport™ communications software to enable China Mobile to launch VoLTE services
Rapport will allow China Mobile to simplify and consolidate communications services on a single platform to enhance the end-user experience, while paving the way for future cloud-based services
Paris, France, August 10, 2015
- 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* 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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