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Unstrung Insider Analyzes IMS: The Heart of Wireless & Wireline
Convergence
Research report examines the central role for IP Multimedia Subsystems in
next-generation converged networks
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Service providers across the telecom
industry are adopting variations on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for 3G
networks as they seek an unprecedented level of control over SIP-based
applications running on converged networks, finds a new report from the
subscription research service Unstrung Insider
(http://www.unstrung.com/insider).
The report -- IMS: The Heart of Wireless & Wireline Convergence -- provides an
overview of the components and concepts that make up the IMS architecture and
assesses the features of IMS that make it attractive to operators. The second
half of the report evaluates vendor positioning and strategies for introducing
IMS across multiple types of customer.
"The idea of a standardized session control architecture for SIP-based services
is becoming central to both wireless and wireline networks," says Unstrung
Insider analyst Gabriel Brown, the report's author. "The market for core IMS
elements, such as the Control Session Control Function and Home Subscriber
Server, could easily be worth several hundreds of millions of dollars over the
next few years."
According to the report, IMS is also a major strategic play that will "touch"
many parts of an operator's next-generation service delivery infrastructure,
providing additional revenue opportunities for IMS vendors with well-developed
partnership programs.
Among the report's key findings:
* Motorola and Nokia look to hold an advantage in the mobile operator
market due to their robust handset sales.
* Siemens, Ericsson, Lucent, and NEC have relatively well-developed IMS
strategies; however, both Nortel and Alcatel are yet to announce
commercial IMS products.
* The ability to integrate apps "end to end" between clients and
applications, across the IMS core, is hugely important to vendors'
ability to maximize revenues from SIP and IMS.
* Operators want open IMS systems and applications, but for now they
prefer reliable, easy-to-use, single-vendor solutions over more complex
multi-vendor efforts.
* A good proportion of IMS deals will flow to incumbent mobile packet
core vendors, especially in the early days of IMS.
* Vendor partnerships at the services layer, combined with the ability to
integrate third-party applications, will grow in importance over time.
* Toll-quality VOIP based on a SIP/IMS control layer is a huge challenge
and will emerge more slowly than lightweight data applications such as
messaging, presence, and video sharing.
Vendors analyzed in this report: Alcatel SA (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP:PA);
Ericsson AB (NASDAQ:ERICY); Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU); Motorola Inc.
(NYSE:MOT); NEC Corp. (Nasdaq: NIPNY; Tokyo: 6701); Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK);
Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT); and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt:
SIE).
IMS: The Heart of Wireless & Wireline Convergence is available as part of an
annual subscription (12 monthly issues) to Unstrung Insider, priced at $1,350.
Individual reports are available for $900. To subscribe, please visit:
http://www.unstrung.com/insider.
For additional information, to request a free executive summary of the report,
or for details of multi-user licensing options, please contact:
Jeff Claudino
Sales Manager
Insider Research Services
619-229-9940
Members of the media may request review copies from:
Gabriel Brown
Chief Analyst
Insider Research Services
44-20-7701-9330
DATASOURCE: Unstrung Insider
CONTACT: Jeff Claudino, Sales Manager, Insider Research Services,
+1-619-229-9940, , or media - Gabriel Brown, Chief
Analyst, Insider Research Services, +44-20-7701-9330,
Web site: http://www.unstrung.com/insider