RCS Overview by Colibria

1. Rich Communication Suite overview
Colibria, June 2009

2. Agenda
About RCS
About RCS RCS & Colibria
RCS & Colibria
• RCS overview • RCS implementation
• The rich communication
The rich communication • Social Network Gateway
Social Network Gateway
landscape • RCS migration path from IMPS
• RCS objectives
• Core feature set:
– Enhanced Phonebook
– Enhanced Messaging
Enhanced Messaging
– Enriched Call
• Broadband & multi device access
• Provisioning & configuration
• Clients

3. RCS overview
• Global collaboration run by GSMA
Global collaboration run by GSMA
• 70 members including 19 operators
– Also some silent members
Also some silent members
• Based on IMS
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• Initial deployments late 2009 (Europe
followed by global)
• 1.3 million subscribers forecast by
2010 in EMEA and Asia Pacific regions*
• RCS 1.0 specification package released
December 2008
December 2008
• Regular releases every 6 months
*Infonetics Research, RCS Market Outlook Annual Worldwide and Regional Market Forecasts May 2009

4. The rich communication landscape
• New services and applications
have introduced a richer
communication experience
communication experience
outside the operator
environment
• Consumers increasingly expect
these rich capabilities on mobile
as well as PC
as well as PC
• No integration with user’s phone
book
• Diverged access creates a barrier
to discovery of new services

5. RCS objectives
• Use existing standards
• Increase the attractiveness of operator
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service offering by integrating social
presence and capability information
– Users see service capabilities and
Users see service capabilities and
communication methods available
• Establish services based around MSISDN
and operator networks
and operator networks
– For example messaging based on
MSISDN not plaform (MSN etc)
• Flexibility to gradually deploy new
Flexibility to gradually deploy new
communication services by exposing
service capabilities
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Shift from single‐purpose vertical
applications (e.g. video share, IM)
– integrated, multi‐functional framework
based around address book
• Integrate communication
– Mobile to Mobile and Mobile to PC

6. RCS core feature set
PC/mobile
interworking
Enhanced Phonebook
Enhanced Phonebook Enhanced Messaging
Enhanced Messaging Enriched Call
Enriched Call
• Presence • Multimedia messaging • Video share
• Service capability discovery • Chat • Image share
• Network Address Book • File transfer Auto‐provisioning

7. Enhanced Phonebook
• Presence‐enhanced contacts
Presence‐enhanced contacts
• Social Presence Attributes:
1. Hyper‐availability – ‘contact me’ status or global poke
2. Portrait icon
3. Free text, including textual note and possibility to add
emoticons
4. Favorite link
Favorite link
5. Timestamp
• All available communication types can be
initiated from the phonebook
initiated from the phonebook OMA DS Solution
• User can continue to use legacy contacts in
the phonebook (name/MSISDN pairs)
the phonebook (name/MSISDN pairs) Colibria SIP
SIP
Presence Server
• Backup and sync of contact info
• Search and retrieve contacts from the mobile
Colibria XDMS
network or other fixed network directories

8. Enhanced Messaging
• All available communication options displayed
All available communication options displayed
in conversational view (SMS, IM, voice call,
video call)
• SMS/MMS and chat are discrete services
• Conversational messaging:
• Full threaded communication history
• Unified composer for SMS/MMS
• SMS Mobile <‐> PC / Netbook
/
• Chat
• One to one or Group Chat
Colibria SIP
• Typing alerts IM Server
• Chat Mobile <‐> PC / Netbook
• Fil t
File transfer in or out of session
f i t f i Emerging need for
Emerging need for
network MSRP node

9. Enriched Call
• Available multimedia sharing options displayed
Available multimedia sharing options displayed
to commicating parties
• Image Sharing
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– (Based on Image Share Interoperability
Specification – GSMA IR.79): MSRP
• Video Sharing
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– (Based on Video Share Interoperability
Specification – GSMA IR.74): RTP
GSMA IR.74): RTP
• Requires no application‐level support
• MSRP and RTP Proxy potentially needed where
– User is behind firewall on PC
– Between operators
Emerging need for
Emerging need for
network MSRP node

10. Broadband and multi device access
• Voice • Respond to a call/message with
• In‐call video/image sharing most suitable device
• File transfer at any time
File transfer at any time • Single buddy list
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• Session based chat, 1:1 and group • Single presence information
chat updatable from any device
• Sending of SMS from broadband
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device (no MMS or received SMS) definable
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11. Provisioning & configuration
• Guiding principle that user should not have to ‘configure’ RCS
• Provisioning hidden from user
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• No configuration required
• Phone registers with network and services ‘out of the box’
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12. Clients
Clients being developed in many areas
Clients being developed in many areas
• Handset manufacturers
embedding RCS clients (Nokia,
Sony Ericsson , Samsung etc.)
Sony Ericsson Samsung etc )
• Client vendors building for
• PC
• Mobile deployment for
existing handsets
• Standard platform does not preclude
innovation
– Access of applications within
operator domain
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– Application and other community
access also tabled for R3.0
onwards

13. Colibria and RCS
• RCS is a key driver for Colibria’s market leading
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SIP product suite
• Colibria’s SIP IM, SIP Presence and XDMS are key
enablers for RCS
enablers for RCS
• Colibria are actively partnering with operators
and vendors to drive the realisation of RCS
– IMS Vendors
IMS Vendors Colibria SIP
– Client vendors Presence Server
– Messaging & Hub providers
• C lib i
Colibria understand the practicalities of today
d t d th ti liti ft d Colibria SIP Instant
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Messaging Server
(mass market IMPS mobile and PC) and the
opportunities (SIP‐based new generation clients
for RCS)
for RCS) Colibria XDMS
• Colibria are the chosen exclusive SIP/SIMPLE IM,
Presence & XDMS vendor partner for Nokia
Siemens Networks
Siemens Networks Colibria MSRP
node
MSRP

14. Conclusions
• RCS provides an interoperable IMS‐
RCS provides an interoperable, IMS
based environment allowing
operators to deploy new services
• Core feature set underpinned by
SIP/SIMPLE IM and Presence
technologies
• Colibria’s full convergence portfolio
fits with RCS vision for the evolution
of converged communications
• Colibria products are OMA compliant
• RCS likely to become a community
integration point around users
identity.
identity