Microsoft, Yahoo! and the myth of the dumb pipe 

By: By Rich Karpinski

So where’s the service provider bid for Yahoo! now that it’s on the market? Obviously, it’s nowhere to be seen. And that’s a good, sensible thing...

Growing pangs 

By: By Tim McElligott

Ever get a notion about something only to dismiss it because it's not your area of expertise? Ever been reluctant to open your mouth about something that appeared obvious to you, but stopped because you knew that the experts in that field would scoff and snicker?...

An all-too familiar pattern 

By: By Carol Wilson

With its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) efforts, the telecom industry is reliving some of its past as well, but with no assurances of different outcomes...

The omniscience of time 

By: By Tim McElligott

When pondering the intentions of Verizon Wireless and its vendor cohorts in the recently announced enhancement proposal to the IP multimedia subsystem standard known as Advanced IMS, or A-IMS, the only real answer is: time will tell...

IMS: More important and confusing all the time 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new study from Infonetics Research points out the current problems legacy telephone companies face as they look to converge their services onto an IP backbone, with IMS...

The real FMC/IMS relationship 

By: By PK Prasanna

An increasing number of fixed/mobile convergence, or FMC, deployments are being announced worldwide...

IPTV's next big target 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Ericsson is now in the IPTV business, and though it may be a latecomer, it might just have a few interesting twists to bring to the table...

Building the IMS business case 

By: By PK Prasanna

Much has been written about IP multimedia subsystem architecture and the benefits of removing network silos. However, the significant economic benefits of IMS depend on the execution plan for the operator's strategic framework...

The IMS difference 

By: By PK Prasanna

Is the IP multimedia subsystem architecture any different from any earlier, barely successful efforts at broad-based telecom infrastructure standards?...

IMS to the enterprise 

By: PK Prasanna

Although most recent announcements about IP multimedia subsystem-enabled applications have centered on consumer voice services, network operators are...

Who needs IMS anyway? 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Convergence is occurring with or without IMS, it seems. Tuesday AT&T launched its new Go Mobile service in partnership with Yahoo. It basically takes the Yahoo portal on the AT&T consumer DSL platform and transfers it to the wireless handset on Cingular's network...

Some of my best friends are IMS 

By: By Tim McElligott

Prior to the 3GSM World Congress, I checked out the brochure and was pleased to see that on the agenda there was but a single mention of IMS--and that was at the bottom of the page in the listing for a late-afternoon/final-day program called "All IP Networks and IMS"...

Talent at the top 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Recent bad news from Lucent Technologies has employees and analysts thinking about the possible need for big changes at the company. Should Lucent overhaul its product portfolio or its management team or both? ...

IMS awaits 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Cingular Wireless and its partial parent, SBC, both loosely outlined their plans last week to adopt convergent network architectures based on the IP multimedia subsystem architecture standards...

Stepping into the river 

By: By Tim McElligott

It was a no-brainer to assume that shortly after Cingular announced it would use Lucent Technologies' IP multimedia subsystem architecture, an SBC Communications or BellSouth announcement couldn't be far behind...

Unearthing IMS 

By: By Jason Meyers

I suppose it's a positive thing that I find myself writing again about the IP multimedia subsystem architecture because it means that there has been a new industry development concerning the technology. In fact, there have been two...

Clarifying IMS 

By: By Jason Meyers

The IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, architecture, which looked like a magic potion for network convergence when it first emerged, is now plagued with questions about interoperability...

Fitting in 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The question put to a panel of experts at the Voice on the Net show in Boston last week was, Where does [IP multimedia subsystems] fit in?...

IMS indicators 

By: By Jason Meyers

The IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, exploded onto the telecom industry scene earlier this year with the force of a thousand press releases behind it, as though the concept had been pent up for years waiting for its turn to imbed itself and its associated acronym into the telecom lexicon. Suddenly and without warning, everyone was talking about IMS...

IMS getting universal support 

By: By Joe McGarvey

In these days of rabid polarization, where even the facts seem to have two sides, it's comforting to know that there are still some things that nearly everyone can agree on...

Telecom's IMS discourse 

The IP multimedia subsystem is an IP-based architectural concept, championed in the wireless world by the 3GPP standards group but rapidly gaining the...