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What's keep carriers deploying IMS awake at night?

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What's keep carriers deploying IMS awake at night?

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Today, we'll wrap up our discussion on IP Multimedia Subsystem roadblocks as we test our final two hypotheses with the experts who are deploying IMS in commercial networks. When we began this mini-series, we suggested that one impediment to IMS deployments in carrier networks is the need for IMS to support interfaces into the service providers' operational support systems (OSS) and back-office support systems (BSS). David Whittington at Alcatel-Lucent agrees with our hypothesis. He said that, as with any new infrastructure deployment, integrating the carriers' OSS with IMS is THE issue and that since every carrier has its own unique and evolving OSS requirements and business processes, IMS-to-OSS integration will be an ongoing challenge requiring a strong partnership between the IMS vendor and the operator to resolve. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com

Larry Hettick is a Principal Analyst at Current Analysis, the leading provider of competitive response solutions. A 25
year industry veteran, he has focused on Convergence and VoIP since 2000.

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