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Telebriefing Replay & Podcast
Building the Perfect IMS Beast:
A Service Provider Construction Guide
Joe McGarvey
Principal Analyst, Carrier IP Telephony
August 23, 2006
This telebriefing provides service providers and equipment suppliers with an up-to-date and realistic evaluation of the current state of IMS technology and product availability, as well as offering carriers a helpful roadmap around implementation obstacles. In addition, the presentation introduces the Current Analysis IMS Solution Assessments, the company's latest reports for providing tactical advice for the evaluation IMS-based technology.
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a complex and dense next-generation architecture that is destined to influence every element of a service provider's infrastructure, from end-user handsets to the core of the network. Though every Top- and Mid-Tier equipment maker is building out an IMS portfolio, those product sets are in various stages of completion and adoption readiness. Carriers need to know how to evaluate a supplier's IMS offering and how to recognize potential bumps on the road to IMS deployment.
In this telebriefing, Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst - Carrier IP Telephony, examines the following issues:
- How is the digital media infrastructure market defined and what are some of its key characteristics?
- What are the most significant trends and drivers within the overall digital media infrastructure market?
- What are the major paint points for carriers deploying emerging digital media services such as IPTV?
- Who are the major digital media infrastructure players and how do they stack up within key competitive segments?
- What are the most notable future digital media infrastructure trends?
Telebriefing Contents
- Introduction
- Agenda
- IMS Defined
- IMS Defined (continued)
- The Science of IMS
- IMS Solution Elements
- Essential IMS Elements
- Selection Criterion : Application Strategy
- Selection Criterion: Session Control/Subscriber Management
- Selection Criterion: Border/Policy Control
- Selection Criterion: IMS Breakout Solution
- Selection Criterion: Service Convergence
- Selection Criterion: Interoperability and Compatibility
- Selection Criterion: Portfolio Depth
- Readiness ranking
- The Art of IMS
- Art of IMS: Classic Conundrums
- Naked Cat Conundrum
- IMS NCC for Service Providers
- Simplicity or flexibility?
- Standards or Carrier Preferences?
- In House or third party?
- What does the SCIM reside?
- Service Provider Roadblocks
- Service Provider Roadblocks: Air Guitar Contest
- IMS Adoption Timetable
- Roadblocks to Roadmap
- Thank you, Contacts
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