Abstract
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a standardized IP-based architecture that will allow the convergence of fixed and mobile communication devices, multiple network types, and multimedia applications. Using IMS, future applications will combine voice, text, pictures, and video in seamless call sessions, offering significant ease-of-use to subscribers and allowing service providers to drive branding through a common interface, while substantially reducing operating costs.
The emergence of IMS brings the challenge for network equipment providers (NEPs) and developers to create a new breed of platforms to enable these new services. This white paper provides an overview of the IMS architecture and its benefits, describes the new family of conversational services that will be enabled by IMS, provides some technical highlights and examples of IMS platforms, and gives an overview of the NMS products that can help NEPs and developers get their solutions into service providers’ networks.