Fixed Mobile Convergence

Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) promises a superior user experience delivered cost efficiently and with unprecedented convenience. Nortel offers service providers the potential for first-mover advantages to attract customers and gain momentum. It gives you the opportunity to enter new markets and to bridge the wireless/wireline divide.

FMC isn't just about voice. Video and multimedia are the means for you to capture customers and differentiate from client-centric solutions in particular. Take content from the existing world and customize it for delivery to mobile devices. The key to a successful FMC deployment is to compete not on price, but with value-added services.

Why do I need it?

Seamless service

FMC often describes two distinct functions. First, FMC can provide services to a single device over multiple access types, such as cellular (e.g., GSM, UMTS, and CDMA) and wireless broadband IP (e.g., WLAN and WiMAX). Second, FMC can offer a single blended service to many devices, such as mobile phones, fixed devices and soft clients.

How do I do it?

Integrate your service to fixed and mobile customers

With FMC, you can break the links between the phone number, the network and the device. This increases reachability and productivity while controlling and simplifying the way people communicate.

For the service provider, Nortel FMC removes the traditional barriers to delivering services while increasing value in the network, leading to greater end-user loyalty.

What do I need?

Nortel's FMC Solution

Nortel provides Carrier FMC solutions that fit any type of service provider -- wireless, fixed or MVNO. Depending on your needs, these solutions support seamless service to multi-access handsets, together with advanced, blended services to traditional cellular and fixed devices. Nortel FMC solutions provide applications serving many market segments, ranging from consumer to hosted enterprise.

The Carrier VoIP portfolio offers FMC solutions based on the Application Server 5200 and Communication Server 2000. These allow proven, commercialized services to be extended to multiple devices and access types.

Using the Nortel IMS solution, the Wireless Mobility Gateway (WMG) 6000 provides a Voice Call Continuity (VCC) standard-compliant solution. The Nortel VCC solution delivers end-user services from the AS 5200, enabling an initial set of rich service, together with an evolution path for existing AS 5200 deployments. Nortel is leading the definition of the VCC standard and has years of development and deployment experience in this area.

Deployment of FMC must be planned and implemented with care. Through our Developer Program and Global Services organization, we offer an end-to-end solution, including core network, applications, clients, devices and network integration.

Videos

Bell Canada: The future of VoIP

Why Fixed Mobile Convergence? Examine deployed Nortel FMC solutions and get insights on how to create real, usable solutions based on end-user needs.
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White Paper

Mobile Converg What are the issues surrounding a successful fixed mobile convergence (FMC) deployment? Why is IMS is the best approach for FMC?
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