Monthly Archives: May 2008

Defining SOA, SDP and IMS; and how they fit together

I would like to thank Jeroen Visser from BT for his suggestion of this article to explain SOA, SDP and IMS; and then explain how they fit together. Service Oriented Architecture Defined SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) has emerged as a successful integration framework for BOSS (Business and Operational Support Systems) within operators.  We are now […]

Start-ups to Watch: AirG, the Largest Inter-Operator Mobile Community in the World at 20M+ Members

The title is a bit of an oxymoron, how can a ‘start-up’ also be the largest inter-operator mobile community in the World?  I’m being a little loose in the definition of ‘start-up’ as airG is really a profitable, established business.  However, they still have the entrepreneurial zeal of a fresh-face start-up, and being secreted in […]

Upcoming Events, Voice Peering Forum and Sigma Systems User Conference

As requested by reader feedback, I’m providing some foresight on up-coming conferences I’m attending, rather than just reviewing conferences I’ve attended.  For June I’ll be running panel sessions at Sigma Systems‘s first user conference and at the Voice Peering Forum. Sigma Systems‘s first user conference (June 4th-6th, Barton Creek Resort, registration is free), will explore […]

SofNet Day 3

Just summarizing my panel session speech on day 3 of SofNet, “A Pragmatic Approach to Developing IMS-Services.”  I addressed two questions I’m often asked. “Is IMS dead?”  Both Sprint and Verizon are deploying their flavors of IMS for the simple reason they decided voice over EVDO (the CDMA version of 3G) will be supported by […]