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Accelerating the Road to Convergence: The IMS Journey

Learn about the IP Multimedia Subsytem (IMS)—the current landscape, potential challenges and market opportunities

IMS is more than the sum of its parts. It has given us the opportunity to create a real-time, peer-to-peer, multimedia network architecture that can merge the two most dominant technologies in the world today, Internet and telecoms.

So how close are we to this nirvana when traditional telecom, Internet and broadband capabilities, services and content are seamlessly integrated? How soon can we release products and services that fulfil and even surpass customer expectations? When can we expect to leverage additional revenue through the provision of services like these that will delight and excite customers now and in the future? What is the cost for such an implementation? Are there any proven ROIs? Is the roadmap for a successful implementation all at once or one step at a time? And what do we need to do to address migration?

Researched and written by TME’s IMS expert Maria Hellstrom, this paper examines how far we are along the road to convergence, and the opportunities and challenges it creates not only for the most obvious key players, such as the traditional major telecom equipment manufacturers, but also for those in allied industries.

The paper:

• Describes the routes taken to get where we are today and why they were chosen.
• Provides examples of the work needed to deliver those value-added services that are vital to companies that want to keep their competitive edge.
• Considers the migration steps to take, the possible business case scenarios that have been tried and the challenges of implementation.

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