2008 IMS Leadership Awards

The Annual IMS Leadership Awards were established last year to recognize products or services, which made outstanding achievements in the growing IMS market. The companies that were recognized made major contributions in the advancement of the IMS industry.

This year’s crop of winners is no different. These companies have all shown their dedication to market and to realizing a vision of redefining the next generation network, and enabling innovative applications and services. IMS has been a moving target since the acronym was first uttered, and over the past year it has continued to evolve. Industry experts agree on one thing, and that is that IMS will eventually take a form that will be somewhat different than the nice, neat, top-down schematic formulated at the outset of its journey.

You will find in this list of award recipients a variety of vendors, from different corners of the industry, each of whom represents a puzzle piece, each of whom plays a role in the evolution of IMS. These vendors are all onboard, helping IMS to “cross the chasm” to adoption and deployment on much larger scale.

IMS magazine columnist and analyst Ron Gruia wrote several months ago that “we are getting closer to the tipping point in which IMS will become a more widely adopted blueprint for the NGN evolution.”

The award winners that we recognize here are together building a bridge to that point. The editors and staff of IMS magazine congratulate the winners and wish them continued success on the road to IMS.

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