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convergence definition - telecom
  1. The moving from different directions towards union or one another, especially referring to entities that were very different or even opposed.
  2. In telecommunications, the coming together of voice, facsimile, data, video, and image applications, systems, and networks, both wireline and wireless. The developing IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) currently comes closest to full-on convergence. IMS is an architectural concept built around a packet core and providing an environment in which a user can access a wide range of multimedia services using any device and any type of network connection. See also IMS.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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