I recently completed a report for Mind Commerce entitled: “IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) Status Report: Emerging from the Trough of Disillusionment?” This report provides a valuable independent IMS status report that can help all in the industry have a clear view on its current status and the likely paths operators will take in the evolution […]
Policy management has been a topic of discussion in telecom networks for over a decade. The focus of this article is on policy management and consumer services/networks. Policy management appears in the PDF (Policy Decision Function) of the 3GPP IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) specifications, within many SDP (Service Delivery Platform) implementations, and a number of […]
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) continues to struggle in market acceptance for a variety of reasons. Hugh Bradlow from Telstra did a good summary recently. The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) through a lack of standardisation is becoming a vast architecture with multiple definitions. Linking IMS and SDP would appear to be a sure-fire-way of killing any […]