LAS VEGAS--Syndesis launched a solution this week at TelecomNext that addresses the application delivery needs for carriers trying to build an IP multimedia subsystem-based network.

In keeping with its corporate mission to drive down time-to-market intervals for new services, Syndesis introduced its IMS Foundation, a solution bundle that facilitates service creation and enables the migration to next-generation service delivery architectures based on IMS.

“The new definition of a service is both connectivity and content, and supporting both is essential. That’s the foundation of IMS,” said Adam Boone, vice president of strategic marketing for Syndesis.

IMS Foundation builds on existing solutions from Syndesis that help define, design and activate services such IPTV, triple/quad play, IP VPNs and unified messaging. It extends the company’s service delivery management solutions, such as: its network-aware and service-aware discovery and activation engine; Syndesis NetOptimizer, which simplifies the mass migration of services to new infrastructure; and the Syndesis IP Extensibility Module, which a service creation and delivery component, to support IMS architectures.

These enhanced capabilities include simple, unified control over both applications and connectivity, which provides a management plane that bridges the layers within IMS layers and enables active management of quality-of-service.

It also provides an evolution path for IMS service delivery and support for Service Delivery Platforms, a migration path to both IMS and hybrid IMS architectures as well as SDP-based pre-IMS service delivery infrastructures.

“In addition to cost concerns, carriers have time-to-market issues,” said Mark Fowlie, chief marketing officer at Syndesis. “OSS has been a barrier in bringing products to market, but we think we can turn that around by managing applications and the network seamlessly.”

The IMS Foundation is also built with the scale necessary to support subscriber-initiated activation requests and other self-service capabilities. Overall, Syndesis’ solutions are fully integrated into the bi-directional discovery and activation engine throughout the industry. This enables activity to be driven from real-time views of actual networks and services.

“Applications have no awareness of other applications or the network, so there has to be [constant] visibility to the state of the network and the service,” Fowlie said.