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CHICAGO==Lucent Technologies has agreed to resell Kodiak Network’s push-to-talk platform as part of its IP multimedia subsystem portfolio, expanding a previous marketing relationship between the two vendors.

Under the agreement, Lucent will offer up Kodiak’s product portfolio of push-to-talk Real-Time Exchange server and presence, conferencing and voice bridge applications as part of an IMS application suite, riding over its IMS-based core solution. The two companies will also work together to migrate the platform to an end-top-end VoIP solution for future CDMA2000 and UMTS network deployments.

“Our strategies are very much in line,” said Bruce Lawler, vice president of business development for Kodiak Networks. “As we move forward with push-to-talk and our IMS-based services, we fit in very well with Lucent’s IMS strategy. We’re basically becoming an application on their IMS core.”

While Kodiak’s solution is still a proprietary application, the vendor is migrating the platform to meet the Open Mobile Alliance’s Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) standard as it migrates into the IMS plain. The standard would enable full interoperability between networks, and allow the stacking of PTT with other applications. While Kodiak has entered into agreements with several vendors, Lawler said the Lucent deal was unique as Lucent will actively resell its RTX as part of its IMS portfolio.