Swedish Cable Operator Orders Nokia-Siemens IMS Solution

Press Release - June 11, 2007

Networking equipment giant, Nokia Siemens, announced yesterday that it had won a contract to provide IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions to Swedish cable and internet operator, Com Hem.

IMS is an advanced architectural framework used in IP voice and multimedia transmission over wireless and wireline networks.

Nokia Siemens will equip Com Hem’s cable broadband network with a complete IMS Core system, so as to enhance the company’s existing Voice over IP services, which are based on Siemens’ SURPASS hiQ VoIP application server.

Over 50 service providers around the world are currently trialling Nokia Siemens’ IMS-based VoIP solutions, the Helsinki, Finland-based networking joint venture revealed.