IMS (PDF)

Providing an holistic approach to IMS technologies, IMS: A
Development and Deployment Perspective explores service
architecture for development and delivery of IMS services.
Approaching IMS from the perspective of the user and the service
provider it examines both the current state of deployment and
future trends. The book offers a realistic view of IMS deployment
to operators and service providers, giving practical examples,
application cases and business models. It also presents IMS
deployment strategies based on real-life deployment statistics from
a live IMS test bed connected to an operator network and
proof-of-concept applications including inter-operability trials
and results.

Focusing on IMS potential in terms of service creation, service
composition and service provision the book discusses the ability of
IMS to act not only as a service delivery framework, but also as a
service integration framework. It presents the possible future of
IMS in terms of convergence with Internet services, including
discussions about integration with web technologies including the
WIMS 2.0 initiative. The book enables a better understanding of how
web technologies can complement the IMS service architecture and
pioneer the post-IMS progress and success.

* Presents a novel service-oriented approach to IMS services and
applications from a deployment perspective

* Places IMS in the context of the current telecom environment
providing business models through WIMS 2.0 initiative

* Predicts the trends and potential future for the IMS
evolution

* Provides a technical foundation to IMS principles and
architecture

* Gives examples and solutions to the challenges of service
creation and implementation and analyses deployment hurdles and
interoperability trials

* Describes trends of convergence based on IMS and Web
technologies