At its annual customer Mobile Internet Conference in Nice, France, Nokia has been showcasing its success in bringing profitable connected mobility to today's mobile networks using Internet Protocol (IP) technology. 

 

After the February launch of the Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery and the Nokia IP Multimedia Core, two key building blocks of IP-based core networks and Nokia's Intelligent Edge strategy, Nokia can already point to solid progress in rolling these solutions out to the wireless market. 

 

Nokia has concluded close to ten deals for the Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery solution with customers in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.  The first customers are already using the solution commercially.  The Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery solution allows operators to efficiently deliver different types of mobile content wirelessly from a variety of sources, enabling differentiated charging, online prepaid and post-paid charging, and enhanced ease of use. 

 

The Nokia Multimedia Core enables IP sessions between terminals allowing a whole range of new interactive services.  Nokia has been trialing its Nokia IP Multimedia Core technology with operators since 2002. Commercial rollout of the 3GPP/3GPP2-standardized Nokia IP Multimedia Core for interactive applications is scheduled to begin in early 2004. 

 

Nokia is also launching its network products for push-to-talk at the conference in Nice, and will start shipping the products to customers in the first quarter 2004.  Since early 2003 Nokia has been conducting push-to-talk trials with more than 20 operators in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America.  Push-to-talk terminals from Nokia will become available during the first half of 2004. 

 

"As operators broaden their mobile data services portfolio with new, exciting services, the role of the mobile packet core is becoming extremely important," says Juha Äkräs, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Nokia Networks.  "IP will be the bedrock for data services and by applying it to the core we are able to leverage the greatest potential to create a new ecosystem of services.  We see our solutions as the 'IP service and business machinery' that operators can build on top of today's GPRS packet data networks to enable new IP-based mobile data services." 

 

"Nokia has delivered GPRS networks to well over 70 operators and MMS solutions to close to 60 operators worldwide -- further cementing our successful position in mobile packet core," continues Juha Äkräs.  "All in all, we have made well over 100 packet core network and service platform related deals this year.  We feel we've gotten off to a fantastic start with the solutions we've launched and delivered so far, and are in an excellent position to build upon this success as we go into the future." 

 

Attendees at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference can see first-hand demonstrations of these solutions.  The Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery demonstration shows how operator can increase profitability and usage of IP-based services with dynamic service-delivery machinery.  The demo will especially focus both on advanced service handling capability and charging mechanisms with flexible business models for operator's own and partnered content.  The Nokia IP Multimedia Core demonstration presents interactive person-to-person applications running on Nokia terminals.  Guests can find and connect to an opponent in order to play a game such as battleship or chess interactively over a live GPRS network.  While the game is in progress, the players can use messaging to exchange their thoughts about the gaming experience, just as they would if they were playing in person. 

 

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Notes to the editor:

The mission of Nokia Intelligent Edge is to allow operators to create significant new business with today's GPRS networks as well as with EDGE and WCDMA radio-access networks.  Nokia Intelligent Edge offers operators the core network for IP-based services - solutions that enable dynamic subscription management, ease of use, online postpaid and prepaid charging, differentiated charging, and new interactive applications.  The Nokia Intelligent Edge is based on open architecture with common functions to reduce cost and improve time to market.  The first commercial products based on the Nokia Intelligent Edge are the Nokia IP Multimedia Core and the Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery solutions. 

 

Nokia IP Multimedia Core implements the main functions of the IP Multimedia Subsystem standardized in 3GPP release 5.  The IP Multimedia Core brings a major new capability into existing networks: a connectivity mechanism that enables terminals to establish IP sessions between each other.  IP connections between terminals enable a wide range of multimedia communication services and interactive applications.  Examples of multimedia communication services include See What I See (this means streaming video from one terminal to another) and push-to-talk.  Examples of interactive applications include interactive games and business applications such as fleet management. 

 

The IP Multimedia Core consists of two servers: the Nokia Connection Processing Server (CPS) and the IP Multimedia Register (IMR).  The CPS is responsible for establishing and controlling IP sessions between terminals.  The IMR stores subscriber data such as the subscriber's SIP address, thus complementing the Home Location Register.  These elements fit into the existing packet core environment. 

 

Nokia IP Multimedia Core supports both 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards and can therefore be used in GSM-based and CDMA2000 networks.  The Nokia IP Multimedia Core uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to enable the IP sessions between terminals needed for interactive services.  SIP-capable terminals are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2004. 

 

Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery is a solution for mobile operators to effectively connect end-users to content by simplifying the end user experience on the provided services.  It also allows the operator to differentiate traffic charging and to flexibly charge for service access and service content.  The content can be the mobile operator's own, operator-hosted content or 3rd party-hosted content, allowing the most flexible business models for content-to-person services.  Nokia ICD enables both on- and offline charging for content and traffic and enables new services to be launched for all subscribers simultaneously regardless of whether the customers have a pre - or post paid account.