Tuesday and Wednesday also brought a flurry of new announcements at Supercomm, including, among others:

• Adtran unveiled the Total Access 1100F, which delivers IPTV and deep fiber connectivity for its Total Access OSP and Mini-DSLAMs.  The company also announced the next version of the OPTI-6100 Optical Multiplexer, which comes with enhanced Ethernet service capability and SDH for foreign markets.
• Alcatel made public its UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) solution, which delivers cellular/WiFi convergence.  This offering works by providing seamless roaming for subscribers in GSM (and GPRS) networks and 802.11 (and Bluetooth) unlicensed bands.
• Foundry announced the NetIron XMR(TM) series family of Internet and Metro MPLS Routers.  These routers (IPv4, IPv6, MPLS) routers are geared towards delivering triple play services, converged backbone and broadband VPN.
• Lucent introduced new features for its Stinger product line (i.e. DSL Access Concentrators that will empower SPs to deliver triple play services to their customers.
• Two Nortel partners (Calix and Keymile) debuted new voice gateway functionality to their broadband access products that make them compatible with Nortel's VoIP offerings.  Both products have been tested with the Nortel softswitches.
• Sonus announced its own IMS solution, and a lunchtime presentation revealed some detail - the IMX App Server will serve as the service broker (SCIM) component, and also store data in the HSS.  The company will also have its own ASX Feature Server, HSX HSS and PSX BGCF.  Sonus will count with its own IMS partner ecosystem, including the likes of IP Unity, Sylantro, Genesis, IPeria and BayPackets, among others.

Lucent is going full steam ahead with its plan to amalgamate its wireless and wireless LOBs.  After taking that decision back in April, Lucent is currently undertaking a 4 month period to analyze its entire portfolio of products and resources.  The vendor is promoting its capabilities in wireline (VoIP, optical) and wireless (CDMA, 3G) as key components of IMS.  Relationships with players such as Broadsoft will continue to be important as Lucent builds its IMS partner ecosystem.  During a breakfast meeting with analysts, the company also stressed its strength in the services business (LWS) and its relationship with Cap Gemini.  On the wireless front, Lucent will try to get a piece of the Ericsson market share, as the Swedish vendor exits the CDMA market (albeit Ericsson will still continue to focus on emerging CDMA market opportunities such as CDMA450).  There have been some hints from Wall Street that Lucent might get an EV-DO contract next week.  Last but not least, I also sat a bit on the Lucent Labs table and felt a great dose of optimism coming out of that organization, particularly with the return of Dr. Jeong Kim as the President.