At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November). Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here. The purpose of this article is […]
LTE (Long Term Evolution, also known as 4G) is entering the hype-cycle, and being rapidly pushed up to the ‘peak of inflated expectations’, just like IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), PTT (Push To Talk), FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence), and far too many other technologies to name here. So to cut through the hype and hopefully present […]
At the start of April I wrote about the consolidation in the service management space and the major trends of: Consolidation of functionality. Just like enterprise IT, as mature functions are subsumed. For example, once upon a time a service provider would buy a VoIP fulfillment platform, now multi-service fulfillment is the norm. Emergence of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Starting with a few definitions: Service Fulfillment systems support processes that ensure service providers give requested services to customers in a timely and correct manner, so called Order-to-Cash cycle. Service Assurance solutions monitor service performance based on the customer’s view, not the network manager’s view, based on defined key performance indicators (KPIs), key quality indicators […]
I attended the FierceMarket’s IMS Executive Summit 2007 on the 19th and 20th September. The agenda included keynote presentations from Stuart Elby, Vice President, Network Architecture, Verizon; Mark Kaish, Vice President of Voice Development and Support, Cox Communications, and Narothum Saxena, Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Systems Planning, US Cellular. Learning from the event […]
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 […]
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 […]