Fixed/Mobile Convergence and Beyond

Chapter 4. UMC - An Overview of Technology Requirements and Considerations

To achieve a goal of delivering truly “unbounded” mobile communications solutions, a number of technologies must be aligned. Delivering a seamless and secure communication path from handset, across multiple networks, to handset that is agnostic to network technology or geography requires significant enhancements and improvements to today's technology offerings and equal evolutionary changes in the ability to deliver such solutions to the customer through existing market channels.

Figure 4.1 outlines the multiple paths that signaling and audio must traverse to deliver a true end-to-end UMC solution. Entering the first decade of the 21^st century, no single vendor provides ...