Radisys has signed a deal for its products to be integrated into Mavenir Systems’ rollout of Voice over LTE among operators including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Tele2.
The company’s Media Resource Function (MRF) portfolio is being used in Mavenir’s IMS mOne Convergence Platform. The software allows the platform to support real-time processing of VoLTE and other video-based value added services.
Mavenir will use the full range of Radisys’ media processing products, from its MRF for virtualised cloud deployments – its software MRF on commercial off the shelf servers – to its high capacity MPX-12000 Broadband MRF.
Ian Maclean, Vice-President, Strategy and Marketing, Mavenir Systems, said: “During the past year, we’ve seen a major uptick in VoLTE trials and deployments with our mobile operator customers around the world, and we are now delivering VoLTE to the cloud.
“Leading Tier-1 mobile operators are currently deploying Mavenir’s virtualized IMS technology, powered by Radisys’ MRF, as part of their VoLTE/IMS rollouts. Virtualised IMS solutions can be flexibly deployed to meet business needs such as multi-tenancy and capacity elasticity, an attractive proposition for mobile operators.”
European operators have been slower on the uptake of VoLTE compared to their Asia-Pacific rivals; SK Telecom became the world’s first operator to commercially launch a VoLTE service in August 2012.
In November last year, Telefónica Germany began testing VoLTE with prototype handsets provided by Huawei.
However, research agency Analysis Mason is gloomy about the technology’s prospects in 2014. In research late last year, it said VoLTE was unable to make a significant impact outside of South Korea, Japan and the United States, because of the lack of breadth in the networks required to offer the service.