Replies to post #27630 on The Black Box

[dfi trader]

thanks wahz, i appreciate your quick response. However, in the sbc and bls prs, lu specifically mentions their softswitch.

sbc:

SBC companies will deploy Lucent's IMS offering - part of Lucent's Accelerate(TM) Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio - that consists of products and applications, both with unique Bell Labs developed enhancements and services.

SBC companies plan to implement a managed consumer Voice-over-IP service powered by the Lucent IMS architecture.

Among the products and applications are the Lucent Session Manager, including the service broker function; the Lucent Feature Server; Lucent Unified Subscriber Data Server; Lucent Network Controller; Lucent Network Gateway; Lucent Communication Manager with next-generation features; MiLife® Application Server and MiLife® SurePay® Solutions.


bls:

BellSouth will deploy components of the Lucent IMS portfolio, including the Lucent Network Controller, a softswitch technology-based product that provides the media gateway control functions traditionally found in a softswitch, to enable consumer VoIP services.

[dfi trader]

If sons does indeed have contracts with bls and sbc for their softswitches, why is it that they can't discuss it while lucent can?

That doesn't make any sense to me.

dfi