October 2009

IMS Thought Leadership paper

The IMS architecture is the Telco2.0 response to the Internet infringement of the traditional communications service provider territory. A business perspective is presented which shows the need for the IMS technical platform in the impending transition from traditional Telco Operator to future Service Provider, and the transformation from constrained rigid business models to ones more adequate for the future. IMS fulfils the technical component of a change model. It is necessary to describe how and when this change could be effected, as well as its organizational implications.The contention is that an IMS ecosystem-type environment could be achieved in a stepwise manner with an NGN-SDP deployment.