CHICAGO-MobileIgnite declared its autonomy as an independent industry association, announcing that its top priority is to accelerate the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence interoperability.
The new trade group said 16 industry players are set to join as members and that it has granted “affiliate” status to nine companies from the BridgePort Networks partner program.
The group said it plans to focus on promoting standards-based end-to-end interoperable solutions that improve the quality, coverage, flexibility and cost of mobile voice and data services.
The newly formed industry association says it’s an open, standards-based group with no proprietary limitations and is building a way for mobile and Voice over IP networks to interoperate with carriers’ IP Multimedia Subsystems. MobileIgnite said it’s committed to IMS solutions that build on CDMA, GSM, UMTS, Session Initiation Protocol, IMS and 802.11/16 standards.
“As SIP-based Mobile VoIP and related convergence applications move to early market deployment, MobileIgnite has evolved to an open industry group that will provide the multi-vendor framework for fixed-mobile convergence infrastructure, terminals and applications-as part of a managed pre-IMS to IMS transition,” said Sanjay Jhawar, chairman of the MobileIgnite executive steering committee and senior vice president for marketing and business development at BridgePort Networks.
MobileIgnite members include 724 Solutions Inc., Aperto Networks Inc., Boingo Wireless Inc., BridgePort Networks Inc., Kyocera Wireless Corp., Net2Phone Inc., Pctel Inc., SIPquest, Tekelec, WorldCell and VeriSign Inc.
MobileIgnite stands for Mobile Integrated Go-To-Market Network IP Telephony Experience and was originally founded by BridgePort Networks in January.
