volte and rcs: network evolution and services revolution
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VoLTE and RCS: Network Evolution and Services Revolution
Sachin Bagul, Senior Manager, Product Strategy and MarketingMavenir Systems Public
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VoLTE and RCS: Network Evolution and Services Revolution
Multiple tier-1 operators have committed to launch Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in 2014. Last year VoLTE adoption was considered a matter of when, not if; now the transformation has begun, and the VoLTE movement is building steam.
Over the last few years operators have heavily invested in 4G technologies, many of which are now live. Now they are looking at means to move their core applications, of which VoLTE is going to be the most important, and services to these new 4G LTE, all-IP networks.
The obvious benefit is that this will help operators to both reduce cost and offer new communications services.
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VoLTE and RCS: Network Evolution and Services Revolution
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VoLTE and RCS: Network Evolution and Services Revolution
The foundation that will be laid in deploying VoLTE could pave the way for video and RCS, although few operators have chosen RCS as a way toward the goal of fully implementing VoLTE.
In terms of navigating the path to VoLTE, investment is significant. It’s about re-implementing the voice network, only this time in the all-IP domain. In this transformation process, it is imperative that operators shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel where they don’t have to.
The perfect VoLTE solution, then, would guarantee service parity and offer options of sychronizatoin with the existing CS network, all with minimal changes or disruption to it.
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VoLTE and RCS: Network Evolution and Services Revolution
Legacy networks will be with us for at least a few more years. Operators need to continue supporting these networks, because it’s going to take a while for their entire subscriber bases to migrate and adopt VoLTE as the operators themselves go through that network transformation.
Thus, the biggest challenge operators now face is how to continue supporting legacy networks without much capital expenditure.
The story of VoLTE will be a story of evolution.
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