IMS Commentary Archive
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The Social Taboo Trio: Politics, Religion and Telecommunications
By: By Joe McGarvey
I’ve being around long enough to know that there’s no faster way to make enemies – or turn off readers – than to start talking politics. ...
IP's customer advantage
By: By Michael Howard
Most operators around the globe are engaged in next-generation network transformation projects or IP transformation projects, moving from multiple single-service TDM networks to a single multiservice packet network...
Best-effort: Weakness or strength?
By: By Rich Karpinski
There's an absolutely fascinating dynamic in play right now one that without a doubt will determine the shape of the industry for years to come...
What Verizon’s SureWest and Alltel deals have in common
By: By Joan Engebretson
It’s always fun to interview someone who has a good answer to every question--and Steve Oldham, CEO of Sacramento-based SureWest Communications, recently provided that kind of interview. I talked to him about the company’s strong take rates for triple-play services and about one service the company won’t be selling any time soon--wireless...
Why I like UMA
By: By Peter Jarich, Current Analysis
When I recently heard someone refer to the technology known as Unlicensed Mobile Access as if it were a woman’s first name, I couldn’t help but consider my own thoughts about the technology...
Green packets and broadband
By: By Kermit Ross
Five global forces drive growth and transformation. They are at work everywhere, albeit at varying levels of intensity, and they will change the telecommunications world...
The Web is the Web and telecom is telecom
By: By Rich Karpinski
Since returning to Telephony last fall, I've set out to try to understand the intersection of the Web and telecom...
IMS: A pregnant pause
By: By Joe McGarvey, Current Analysis
As a tribute to the recently deceased Arthur C. Clarke, please indulge a slight detour into science fiction to better emphasize the thesis of this column...
Ask Steve: IP communications and SMB adoption
By: By Steve Hilton, The Yankee Group
IP telephony and unified communications: two great tastes that taste great together. These topics are near and dear to our hearts as we enter 2008. IP communications and SMB adoption are our topics this month in Ask Steve...
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...
