1. COMVERSE IST Call 5 Preparatory Workshop on
"Collaborative Working Environments"
13 April 2005
Amir Gazit
Hananel Kvatinsky

2. Collaboration Communication Services
New communication experience
IP Video Conferencing
Conferencing
Chat
UniBlog
Presence IM
MultiModality
Convergence
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3. Comverse
The market leader in enhanced services for telecommunication service providers
~3500 employees worldwide
~1000 in R&D
Located in Israel
Largest subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (FY04 sales ~$960M)
400+ networks, 120+ Countries, Billon Users
The Main Point!
Comverse has almost two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry, designing, manufacturing, implementing and integrating telco-grade value added services for network operators. 3

4. Related Trends & Potential Topics
Network Evolution
Networks offer increased bandwidth
Standards-based IP architectures
Convergence
IP Multimedia Subsystem
Empowered and open Devices (work, home and mobile)
Ubiquitous Service
Personalized services anywhere,
at any time, over any device
Context Awareness - Functionality is adaptive and optimized to the
environment
Collaboration
Rich media
Multiple Communities
Multi-sessions
Human and Sensors
Work and Fun
Intuitive user experience
Potential Topics
Ubiquitous working environment
IMS based hosted services
Collaboration based on SOA
Real-Time collaboration
Multi-session collaboration – multimedia and data 4

5. Web: http://www.comverse.coms:
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