Fixed Mobile Convergence Getting Serious Interest

In one day, two of the largest Network Equipment providers, Nortel and NokiaSiemens have said FMC is important to them.

First Nortel and Qualcomm announced a real IMS strategy that delivers Voice Call Continuity that is designed to help operators deliver on the promise that companies like BridgePort Networks and others have been selling to the carriers. Then NokiaSiemens Networks raised their had with the Communications Key, a look a like, sound alike in written form to the BridgePort Networks Mobile Stick.

This tells me that FMC is far from dead. It’s just getting legs.