Unstrung Insider Analyzes IMS: The Heart of Wireless & Wireline Convergence
November 19 2004 - 11:02AM
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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
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