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R&D - COMET

COMET is an international project aimed at created technology that supports messaging services that are easy to use and activate and which allows the end user to browse and manage its services from anywhere, at any time, irrespectively of the technology and device used.In order to achieve this ambitious goal, the potential of the convergent messaging infrastructures will be explored. SQS is involved in the COMET project as a Testing expert and provides its experience and its testing team to validate the results.

Project Consortium

What is new in COMET

  • Convergence from the user's point of view
    • Telephone, PDA, PC; STB and consumer electronics
  • Protocol and operating system independent
  • Attractive user interface
    • Can be personalised using skins
  • Adaptable to several operators

Why COMET is needed

  • Simple, intuitive messaging functionality
    • It lets the user browse and manage his messages, irrespective of the type of message or appliance used.
    • Ubiquitous messaging service.
    • Service easy to use and access.
  • Infrastructure for next generation of messaging
    • Compatible with 3G/IMS.
    • Service easy to use and access.
    • Lower costs as it replaces expensive infrastructures.
  • First step towards setting up a convergent messaging technology in Europe.

COMET objectives

  • Contribute to standardisation entities, particularly IETF, OMA and 3GPP.
  • Define an open messaging convergence end-2-end architecture
  • Create a user interface and an implementation benchmark
  • Create server architecture and an implementation benchmark
  • Define an open telecommunication platform
  • Model and tools to control the quality of the convergent messaging service.
  • Validation and demonstration of the converging messaging possibilities

Project challenges

  • Transparent use of networks, protocols and heterogeneous appliances
  • Checking the usability of a new architecture and the user interface models.
  • Demonstrating the quality of the results with real cases.

SQS objectives

  • Full validation of the COMET solution
  • Certification of the COMET Platform
  • Supplying the operators with the platform for COMET tests
  • Full automation of the testing process

COMET documents

COMET links