ng Connect initiative brings together device, application, infrastructure and content providers.
Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled the 14-member ng Connect Program to drive the development of innovative services for LTE, 4G and other ultra-bandwidth networks.Founding members include 4DK, Alcatel-Lucent, Buzznet, chumby, Connect2Media, dimedis, FISHLABS, HP, QNX, Samsung, SIGNEXX, Total Immersion, TuneWiki and Words & Numbers.
The initiative will focus on developing augmented reality, mobile games and compelling social networks/entertainment experiences.
The ng Connect Program’s initial phase has three goals:
- Accelerating deployment of new services and devices through pre-integration and validation.
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- Identifying and promoting new revenue streams through innovative business models.
- Broadening the wireless broadband device landscape to include consumer electronics products, industrial and consumer equipment for machine-to-machine communications, and automotive connectivity.
Tim Krause, Chief Marketing Officer at Alcatel-Lucent, said: “The establishment of the ng Connect program is an important step in our strategy to create an open ecosystem so that the trusted capabilities of service providers can be combined with the innovation of the web to bring whole new classes of services to market, services that can leverage the growing capabilities of service aware IP networks, IMS and more."
