Some of my best friends are IMS
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
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
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
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
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...
Clarifying IMS
The IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, architecture, which looked like a magic potion for network convergence when it first emerged, is now plagued with questions about interoperability...
Fitting in
The question put to a panel of experts at the Voice on the Net show in Boston last week was, Where does [IP multimedia subsystems] fit in?...
IMS indicators
The IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, exploded onto the telecom industry scene earlier this year with the force of a thousand press releases behind it, as though the concept had been pent up for years waiting for its turn to imbed itself and its associated acronym into the telecom lexicon. Suddenly and without warning, everyone was talking about IMS...
IMS getting universal support
In these days of rabid polarization, where even the facts seem to have two sides, it's comforting to know that there are still some things that nearly everyone can agree on...
Telecom's IMS discourse
The IP multimedia subsystem is an IP-based architectural concept, championed in the wireless world by the 3GPP standards group but rapidly gaining the...
The infancy of IMS
The architecture known as the IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, is at a critical stage in its development. It's one of those emerging technology areas that is not truly or fully understood by the vast majority of the industry...
It's all about IMS
The wireless industry has a new acronym to beat to death. It's called IMS--IP multimedia subsystem--and the vendors are bringing down the bat hard at the 3GSM World Congress...
