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NewsGlobe: Currents
Fall VON: Movial plays to ops' 'holistic' needs
Latest version technology upgrades unified inbox
by Jim Barthold
Movial has introduced an upgraded version of its client
application suite to enable device manufacturers and service
providers to launch a plethora of new IP-based services on
multiple devices, bridging the gap between IMS-capable
equipment and the services that run the IP networks.
“We believe operators are looking at the holistic
communications experience on IP: voice calls, voice mails,
video calls, presence, IM, sharing, all that in one application
and in any device in the network,” said Jeri Ala-Ruona, co-
founder and CEO of Movial.
The new application suite, called Communicator 5, is intended
to be something for everyone — as long as that everyone is
the end user, Ala-Ruona said.
“The product has a unified inbox, all the call capabilities,
voice-over-IP calling, GSM calls, CDMA calls,” he said. “We
support both circuit switched calls (and) GSM calls when you
don’t have true IP access and then we also run voice-over-IP
over mobile networks. Depending on where you are you can
choose the best quality compared to the price you want to pay
for the call.”
The upgraded suite, he said, offers operators the ability to
roll out a unified user experience on a mobile device or even
on a notebook, desktop or set-top box. The company has
thus far not announced any service provider customers, but
Ala-Ruona said that it is involved in projects that include
video calling from PC-to-mobile or mobile-to-mobile or PC-to-
PC devices within a 3G network as well as trialing WiMAX
devices with IMS.
“Video is big in the U.S. … but not real-time video. It’s more
like video clips sharing,” because the U.S. networks aren’t yet
set up sufficiently to handle 3G traffic. The upgrade to 3G, he
said, will change the marketplace and open the doors for
more services.
“Some mobile-only operators are upgrading to super-3G
networks that will enable them to start offering broadband
services at home through femtocell-like devices,” he said. “At
the same time, we’re also seeing some of the fixed line guys
taking a pure mobile application from us and installing that
and … competing with the mobile operators in the Wi-Fi
networks.”
The technology is there from the traditional vendors but “one
of the biggest bottlenecks is the lack of services today,” Ala-
Ruona said. Movial’s aim is to provide the connections
between the IP Internet and the hardware end device.
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