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Voice Drives Revenue in Mobile Voice revenues for mobile industry in 2009 $615 billion globally.
Source Tomi Ahonen 2010 Almanac
In 2013, voice revenue will still account for 61% of all Mobile service revenue.
Source Infonetics
Although this profile focuses on LTE access, this IMS based voice profile would support other access technologies e.g. fixed.
History
Formerly known as the One Voice Initiative
An informal group of companies committed to ensuring a common industry solution for supporting Voice and SMS over LTE.
Produced Version 1.0 of the One Voice; Voice over IMS Profile
Profile published with a press release at LTE Americas, on Nov 4, 2009, in Dallas, Texas, USA
One Voice initiative participants and a GSMA VoLTE Task force agreed to transition the profile and future work to GSMA One Voice also agreed to hand over its planned testing activities to IMTC (Intl. Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium)
Define a common LTE IMS Voice and SMS profile compliant with 3GPP specifications
A common feature set and option selection across the whole protocol stack: radio, IP & transport, application protocols No limit on features or options The profile would facilitate interoperability testing and compliancy
Create new standards Be an open ended commitment; once its work is done an orderly ramp down would be executed.
defines mandatory capabilities which are required over the Gm and Ut reference points including supplementary services endorses a set of media capabilities such as RTP profile, RTCP and SDP usage lists required functions requirements for carrier grade VoIP service gives recommended APN and bearer strategies including both signalling and media bearers. covers topics such as IP version and emergency session.
Bearer management
Common functions
We need for a range of terminal devices across all price points Faster realization of a global LTE voice landscape enabling global roaming for voice services Reduce risks of market fragmentation for LTE Voice Prepare for add-on voice applications (rich voice) and nonvoice services
In 25 years globally
5,800,000,000,000 call minutes annually Tomi Ahonen Consulting
Diverse handsets
Roaming
The Voice challenge for LTE LTE is an all-IP mobile network No support for traditional CS domain voice New Voice and SMS solutions required
CSFB, VoLGA, One Voice
The risk industry fragmentation Poor customer experience No common implementation Economies of scale are lost
GSMA Voice over LTE (VoLTE) VoLTE Task Force Single target solution IMS-based VoLTE Task Force and One Voice collaboration VoLTE adopted One Voice Profile of IMS SIP, 8th January 2010 GSMA VoLTE initiative announced 15th February 2010 One Voice closed, all future work through VoLTE initiative.
UNI
IMS
Common UNI (User Network Interface) needed Differing implementations would mean Roaming no longer guaranteed Global scale becomes reduced Higher costs for vendors as a result
Interconnect NNI
UNI
IMS
IMS
UNI
HPLMN
? Roaming ?
NNI
VoLTE will define a common Roaming NNI VoLTE will define how emergency call for roaming is supported All work to be executed in GSMA IREG RiLTE group
VPLMN
Completing the work GSMA Working Groups with expertise in inter-network charging interoperability with existing systems handover from IMS to CS domain Interconnectivity models GSMA VoLTE will work with industry bodies for overall solution 3GPP, NGMN Alliance, IMTC, GCF, PTCRB
Industry Support
Conclusions Continuing high quality, fully interoperable and globally available voice services is fundamental to operators Require a single technology, common interfaces and open standards VoLTE will develop the necessary specifications to put this in place
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