The IMS message

We were having a conversation in the office, or more a remote e-mail conversation. It concerned a recent analyst report suggesting that softswitches will be around for longer than people might think as carriers are not moving to IMS as fast as had been thought, if at all. This led to the following response from a Total Telecom colleague:

"The problem for IMS is it doesn’t spell ‘product’ i.e the vendors aren’t defining the products/applications the operator will get out of it, whereas softswitches spell VoIP and managed VoIP – a no brainer!"

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