Kapsch CarrierCom has successfully executed the first Functional Addressing call utilizing SIP signaling based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in its Vienna lab. The Functional Addressing Service represents one of the key operational features in railway communication networks and enables the calling party to reach a ‘function’ or role, for example the ‘train driver’, rather than dialing the explicit directory number for the relevant user equipment.
The achievement combines softphone based user equipment, IMS capabilities and the service logic hosted within the SCP5 application server. Kapsch’s brand new SCP5 (Service Control Point Release 5) is a convergent Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and enables service centralization, functional transparency against the underlying network architecture and a smooth transition between current networks and the future Full-IP System.
With SCP5 Kapsch is launching its second Next Generation product. It is using standard COTS (Commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and is fully enabled for virtualization, allowing also the flexible and cost-efficient deployment in railway data centers.
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