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IMS Market Opportunities: From Standardization to Implementation


Description: There is plenty of controversy about fundamental issues surrounding IMS. What, exactly, is the value proposition for service providers to adopt the architecture: Reducing Capex or Opex? Increasing revenue? Where does legacy infrastructure fit? Will standards ever mature? The report IMS Market Opportunities: From Standardization to Implementation examines these questions and many more.

The report analyzes the current status of IMS, evaluating the enabling business and content delivery models. It discusses the timeline for IMS standards development in light of both demand drivers and risk factors, and provides an adoption timeline, on which we base our estimate of the size of the IMS-based services market and forecast revenue for IMS equipment and software. The assumptions underlying all of our estimates are discussed in detail.

Key findings we publish in this report include the following:

-As standards bodies, platform vendors and service providers reach a critical mass of consensus around architectures, security and broad service categories, IMS standards will mature.
-Service innovation will drive IMS equipment demand, but this will be unevenly distributed between markets.
-Service providers look at IMS as more than an enabler of innovative Web-based offerings.
-Forecasts of developments pay particular attention to the strengths and challenges of individual players, and the report looks at representative service providers such as BT, Com Hem and Vodafone that are pursuing distinct IMS adoption strategies. It also examines the opportunities available to telecom equipment vendors and what they are doing to capitalize on upcoming standards developments, with sections on issues such as market entry opportunities and product functionality. Vendors discussed range from Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson to Acme Packet, Iperia and Redknee.

To cap off the report, a forecast of global revenue from IMS-based services is provided for 2007-2012, as is a forecast of global revenue from IMS-compliant equipment.

Key questions answered

-When will IMS standards development reach a level that encourages significant adoption?
-Will the adoption drivers be strong enough to create the momentum IMS needs?
-What are the issues that stand in the way of a mature set of IMS standards?
-How are the various industry bodies dealing with these challenges?
-What benefits, if any, will IMS adoption bring to service providers? To vendors?
-What strategies are vendors pursuing in their quest to grab this opportunity?
-How much revenue will IMS-based services generate by 2012?
-How large will the market for IMS-compliant equipment be in 2012?

Target audience

Mobile network operators
Find out how standards work is progressing, and when to expect significant change in the marketplace. Learn whether IMS is right for your business model and what benefits it will bring to the bottom line. Evaluate how to prosper under a new service delivery paradigm. Develop strategies for building a healthy ecosystem to support your infrastructure and services. Assess vendor strategies to identify those that match your needs.

Fixed telecom and cable service providers
Assess the state of IMS implementation. Learn what changes are in the works for standards to address the specific needs of wireline networks. Identify the specific industry organizations that are working to rationalize and advance IMS standards. This report shows you how to prepare for these and other coming changes — before the market moves on — by articulating a top-level strategy for a standards-based world.

Infrastructure vendors
Assess your competitors’ strategies and learn how best to respond. Discover how to get from pre-IMS legacy infrastructure and vendor lock-ins to a standards-based world of interoperability without skipping a beat. Evaluate the needs of operators, and find out how to build on your strengths to meet those needs.

Investors and financial institutions
Assess the speed of the progress toward a communications infrastructure built on a multiservice architecture. Recognize the opportunities that will open as IMS brings interoperability to locked-in environments. Find out who will benefit — and who won’t


Contents: Table of exhibits
Acronyms and abbreviations
Companies mentioned in this report
Executive summary

Section 1: The state of IMS today
1.1 From obscurity to dominant paradigm
1.2 A reference architecture
1.3 Controversies
Revenue increase
Capex and Opex reduction
Architecture for an operator-friendly Web?
1.4 Early-stage complications
IPv6 support
Specification ambiguity
Open security issues
1.5 Interoperability testing adds real-world experience
1.6 Implementations are predictably diverse

Section 2: The current state of IMS standards
2.1 Restructuring the standards arena
2.2 Many forums, a single vision
3GPP
3GPP2
ITU-T
IETF
ETSI
OMA
CableLabs
The need for rationalization prompts creation of Common IMS

Section 3: Service provider strategies
3.1 The new network paradigm
3.2 Plight of the service provider
3.3 A services metastrategy
AT&T
KPN
Telefónica
Smaller operators
3.4 IMS adoption strategies: holistic vs. opportunistic
Verizon Wireless
Deutsche Telekom
BT
Com Hem
Vodafone
Arcor
Other service providers

Section 4: Equipment vendor strategies
4.1 New market orthodoxy, constant market growth
4.2 Legacy vendors focus on protecting investments
4.3 New entry opportunities
4.4 The product functionality challenge

4.5 Vendor profiles
Incumbents : Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Nortel
Niche players and new entrants: Acme Packet, BEA Systems, Huawei, Iperia, Italtel, RadiSys, Redknee, Sonus Networks, Veraz
Section 5: Resolution to the IMS Standards Debate in 2009 Will Unleash Significant Opportunity for Service and Equipment Revenue Growth
5.1 New releases will bring IMS to a pivotal point — stability
5.2 Service revenue gathers momentum
Definitions
5.3 Equipment revenue
Definitions
Related resources

Table of exhibits
Exhibit 1: Overview of IMS architecture
Exhibit 2: The discrete functional components of each service layer
Exhibit 3: Principal IMS standards organizations
Exhibit 4: Common IMS — some key standards
Exhibit 5: Key issues of Common IMS
Exhibit 6: IMS market maturity, demand drivers and risk factors
Exhibit 7: Telefónica’s global service strategy
Exhibit 8: Representative IMS adopters by strategy segment
Exhibit 9: BT 21CN architecture
Exhibit 10: BEA Systems’ IMS ecosystem
Exhibit 11: Empirix IMS product functionality mapping
Exhibit 12: Alcatel-Lucent
Exhibit 13: Cisco Systems
Exhibit 14: Ericsson
Exhibit 15: Nokia Siemens Networks
Exhibit 16: Nortel
Exhibit 17: Acme Packet
Exhibit 18: BEA Systems
Exhibit 19: Huawei
Exhibit 20: Iperia
Exhibit 21: Italtel
Exhibit 22: RadiSys
Exhibit 23: Redknee
Exhibit 24: Sonus Networks
Exhibit 25: Stratus Technologies
Exhibit 26: Veraz Networks
Exhibit 27: Global service revenue, IMS-enabled and non IMS-enabled, 2006-2012
Exhibit 28: Growth in IMS systems revenue globally 2006-2012


Companies Mentioned - Acme Packet - Alcatel-Lucent - Amazon.com - Arcor - AT&T - AT&T Mobility - BEA Systems - Bharti Airtel - Brasil Telecom - BT Group - China Netcom - Chunghwa Telecom - Cisco Systems - Com Hem - Convedia - Deutsche Bahn - Deutsche Bank - Deutsche Telekom - eBay - Elion - Empirix - Ericpol Telecom - Ericsson - Far EasTone Telecommunications - France Telecom - Fujitsu - Google - Hewlett-Packard - Huawei - IBM - Iperia - Italtel - KPN - Magyar Telecom - Motorola - MSN - MySpace - NEC - NGC Systems - Nokia Siemens Networks - Nortel - NTT DoCoMo - OneMax - Orange - PCCW - Qualcomm - RadiSys - RADVision - Redknee - Rogers Cable - Smile Content - Sonus Networks - Sprint Nextel - SPT Vietnam - Stratus Technologies - TDC A/S - Telefónica - Telekomunikacja Polska - trommsdorff + drüner - T-Systems - Veraz Networks - Verizon Communications - Verizon Wireless - Vodafone - Warid Telecom - Yahoo - YouTube


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