Telcordia conducts a portfolio piece on IMS

With much of the focus around the IP multimedia subsystem architecture being on systems and hardware infrastructure solutions, Telcordia today turned the spotlight on support and service delivery systems for IMS by introducing a portfolio of products called Maestro.

The Maestro IMS Portfolio is a set of wireless, wireline and converged products, services and applications that supports carriers’ efforts to offer any service, over any network, to any device.

With customer deployments in all regions of the world, Telcordia has already taken an early lead in the emerging IMS market, which is expected to become the standard network architecture for rich, converged services offered by operators of all types.

“There is a clear indication that the industry across all types of access mediums, be it wireless wireline or cable, is moving toward IMS,” said Scott Erickson, president of IMS service delivery solutions at Telcordia. “We are addressing the major area of convergence. We think that is the major focus of operators worldwide.”

Maestro is a result of Telcordia’s Elementive strategy and packaging of products and services, which the company began three years ago. Many of the products are already deployed in operator networks, such as the Telcordia Converged Application Server and Converged Real-Time Charging solutions used by Brazil’s Oi, Telus, Swisscom, Tata Teleservices and Virgin Mobile USA, among others.

With the Maestro portfolio, Telcordia is targeting wireless, wireline, cable and converged operators. The portfolio includes products, applications and services. Telcordia’s new Converged Application Server, which will be the evolution of the company’s ISCP service creation and delivery platform, will join the company’s Converged Real-Time Charging solution and Subscriber Data Solutions, such as: Home Location Register (HLR), Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and Equipment Identity Register (EIR).

Telcordia’s Expediter and Service Director fall under the category of service orchestration products. They will support applications such as Telcordia Seamless Mobility, the Converged Applications Suite, Rich Voice Services, Messaging & Content Delivery Services, Location and Presence-Based Services, TV Caller ID Services, a communications portal and prepaid/postpaid services.

“We believe IMS is really targeted at moving the true value of the network away from the infrastructure and putting it back at the service layer where the applications really reside, which enables carriers to create and deploy service in a fraction of the time it took before,” Erickson said.

These applications and products will in turn be supported by consulting, hosting and implementation services as well as the company’s new VoIP Routing Registry, due the middle of next year.

“The practical reality is we will continue to see existing circuit-switched networks to tomorrow’s IMS network and intermediary IP networks co-existing,” said Grant Lenahan, executive director of wireless mobility and chief strategist at Telcordia. “Our goal is to allow our customers to generate new services very quickly and generate new revenue hopefully in all these networks at the same time.”