Manuel Paul, Work Area Director for the Broadband Forum's Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) work area interviews Roland Schott, Project Leader for the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) for 5G-RG project stream. Schott explains that this stream is working on a converged approach to delivering voice to residential gateways (5G-RG) that utilize IMS.
He indicates that they are developing an architecture specification and a requirements document. Ultimately, their efforts promise to simplify the network for the operator and provide a better experience for the consumer.
