Tag Archives: 3gpp

IMS World Forum and Policy Control and Real-Time Charging Conferences

The week of the 23-26 April is going to be busy for anyone involved with IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or policy control and real-time charging. From the 23rd-26th April 2012 at the NH Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain the IMS World Forum will be running.  In reviewing the status of IMS: Verizon continues its aggressive roll-out of […]

Summary of “Where’s the Mobile Industry Going?” Panel at the Sigma System’s User Conference

Sigma Systems’ first User Conference (June 4th-6th, Barton Creek Resort), explored the next generation of consumer and business oriented services, including insight and discussion around emerging trends and technology developments in the following areas:  targeted advertising, evolution of commercial VoIP & data services, global deployments in mobile broadband services, evolution to on-demand services, converged applications […]

SCIM (Service Capability Interaction Manager): Its time for operators to sort out the services layer mess

About 2 years ago I did a couple of projects around the SCIM (Service Capability Interaction Manager).  It’s an illusive component within the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) standards, because it’s only described in one paragraph of the 3GPP R7 (3rd Generation Project Partnership Release 7) standards issued earlier this year.  The SCIM isn’t standardized, it’s […]