Based in part on the success of its latest interoperability events known as plugfests and in part by signs that vendors and service providers continue to move toward an IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture — whether they call it that or not — the IMS NGN Forum’s Report Card this week says IMS is overcoming the hype and misinformation that made it appear to have stalled.
It hasn’t, said Manuel Vexler, chair of IMS Technical Working Groups. “Developing standards in telecom always seems to take longer than we want it to take,” he said. “But there is definitely a migration toward IMS architectures in the vendor community that is better than expected and moving at a fairly good clip.”
Vexler said that in a way, the current economic situation may move things along even faster. “It forces people to have to make decisions,” he said.
