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The Pre-IMS World
As titillating as IMS sounds, a full-blown IMS world is still at least five years away–probably ten. Moreover, “conventional” multimedia technologies are doing just fine, thank you.
Take, for example, Nortel’s Multimedia Communications Server (MCS) 5100 and its recent upgrade. While the rest of world ponders how IMS “trials” can be held without a fully hammered-out IMS being deployed, Nortel’s MCS 5100 continues to deliver real-time multimedia communications that enhance user mobility, collaboration, and drives increased productivity.
Nortel’s Ingrid Tremblay, senior manager for portfolio product marketing, Enterprise Multimedia Solutions, says: “The MCS 5100 and the associated Nortel Multimedia PC client simplifies the communication experience for employees, brings personal call management to the users’ fingertips, supports IP telephony while preserving telephony investments and its intuitive user interface tightly integrates communication enhancing applications in a single user experience. MCS 5100 release 3.5 builds on the many communications applications already available today and it introduces a new Nortel wireless mobile PC client that brings the real-time applications of MCS to the BlackBerry hand-held mobile device. Increased support for IP clients and simplified packaging are also part of this new release.”
“When you step back and look at what we’re doing, it’s all about real-time communications,” says Tremblay. “People still want that real-time audio communications ability, and they want to be mobile, to be able to collaborate with others and to generally be productive. If you’re a health care worker, you need a particular application. If you’re a doctor, you have patient records and such. Why can’t you use your real-time communications tool to work with these applications all the time, wherever you are? You’ve got to understand how people conduct business, to figure out how to allow those vertical users to be more productive. That’s where it’s going.”
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