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First and foremost, I would like to welcome new Forum members, GlobalTouch Telecom, IntelliNet Technologies, and Juniper I am pleased to update you on our continued progress in growing the IMS Forum, in addition to the leadership role we’ve taken in educating the industry as to the value and benefit of IMS.Networks, returning Board members Jean-Marc Desaulniers, (Alcatel) (News - Alert)
and Steve Edwards (Sonus Networks) (News - Alert)
, as well as new Board member Manuel Vexler (CopperCom), to the IMS Forum Board of Directors. Also, please join me in welcoming Service Provider and Integrator Board Co-Chair, Sanjeev Chawla (BayPackets).
If the buzz surrounding IMS and the IMS Forum at Globalcomm 2006 is any indication as to potential growth, clearly, we are on the verge of breaking new ground as an industry. At our Annual Meeting, we updated our industry colleagues, Forum members and friends on our progress to-date, in addition to presenting a technical paper, entitled, IMS Technology Framework V2.0: Coordination of Multiple Services in an IMS Domain, which details the benefits of the Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM) function, as well as how to leverage this technology for managing interaction between multiple application servers in an IMS domain.
In addition, the IMS Forum, in conjunction with its member, Cantata, conducted a survey among Globalcomm conference attendees that addressed current awareness of IMS, value industry leaders presently place on IMS, in addition to other relevant topics. Of 32 surveyed, 21 carriers are actively planning IMS strategies, while seven are actively trialing and deploying. In addition, when queried as to specific timeframes on when the first phase of their respective IMS infrastructure will be in place, more than 40 percent of respondents acknowledged that they already have the appropriate infrastructure in place, or expect to in 2007.
What’s most encouraging and important to note, is that recent analyst reports concur with our belief that with the continued market penetration of IP Communications and the transition toward IP multimedia convergence, IMS could very well serve as the catalyst for significant growth within the telecommunications industry. In fact, in a recently published independent study, ABI Research commented, “…IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert)
(IMS) may act as a jet engine that would power telecom markets to a new level.”
The IMS Forum has number of initiatives forthcoming on which we look forward to working with our industry colleagues, such as the IMS Forum PlugFest and Security. (We are planning to launch the first interop and evaluations late this Fall — additional information will become available as we move forward).
Thank you for your continued interest in and support of the IMS Forum.
Michael Khalilian is the president and chairman of the IMS Forum.
For membership information, or to participate in IMS Forum working groups, plugfest and membership info please visit www.IMSForum.org or contact Michael Khalilian [email protected].
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