Radisys Corporation, a market leader enabling wireless infrastructure solutions, this week announced a significant Media Resource Function (MRF) supply agreement with Nokia Networks. According to Radisys, Nokia Networks has selected Radisys’ MRF product family as the media processing foundation for its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) solution portfolio for standards-based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments. MRF is an essential element to support real-time voice and video services in an IMS architecture.
Radisys said that Nokia Networks will utilize Radisys’ Virtualized MRF and high-capacity MPX-12000 Broadband MRF, built on Radisys’ T-Series Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform, to provide its mobile operator customers with the flexibility to choose the media processing solution that best fits their economic and technical requirements for VoLTE/VoWiFi service. The company added that Nokia Networks will make use of a combination of Radisys’ hardware and cloud-ready software platforms to provide its mobile operator customers with a comprehensive range of deployment options for interactive HD voice and video communication services.
Grant Henderson, Vice President, Marketing & Product Management, Radisys
Nokia Networks is a recognized leader in large networking solutions for the telecommunications industry. Nokia Networks’ selection of the Radisys MRF product family is a testament to our continued leadership in the MRF market and our ability to deliver best-in-class features and deployment options for VoLTE, HD voice and next-gen video services. Nokia Networks is a long-standing customer, already utilizing our technology and products and we are very pleased to extend our strategic relationship with Nokia Networks to include our MRF solutions to better serve its mobile network customers’ needs around the globe. We are also proud of the telco cloud partner certification, which shows that our solutions meet the same high quality and security standards as Nokia Networks’ own products.
Michael Clever, Senior Vice President of Core at Nokia Networks
Partnering with Radisys on media processing is a great example of how Nokia Networks can extend its portfolio with solutions from partner companies. In this case, the Radisys product family extends our end-to-end VoLTE solution, We’re able to quickly provide operators with the right media processing solution for their VoLTE deployment, whether it’s a virtualized solution or not. Radisys’ virtualized MRF has been certified within Nokia Networks’ telco cloud partner certification program to work with our virtualized VoLTE solution. This certification program ensures operators get the most comprehensive solutions, which meet the highest quality and security standards.
