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World IMS Test and Monitoring Equipment MarketsProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Frost & Sullivan Published: December 2007 Product Code: R1-6225 Description This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World IMS Test & Monitoring Equipment Market provides revenue forecasts as well as pricing, application, product, and competitive analysis. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the total IMS test and monitoring market, as well as individual IMS segments such as IMS voice, video, data, wireless, and transport.This analysis is available through our Test & Measurement Growth Partnership Services program. With this program, clients receive industry-leading market research such as this, along with technical and econometric data and many interactive features including Analyst Inquiry Time and Client Councils. Market Overview Promise of Advancing Seamless Fixed-Mobile Convergence to Boost IMS Deployments IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) technology is making an incredible impact on the telecommunications market and is set to accelerate the move toward convergence to a large extent. IMS is an access, protocol, and device agnostic specification that allows the convergence between wireline and wireless network architectures. IMS framework allows wireline, wireless, and cable operators to offer a new generation of voice, video, and multimedia services across both legacy circuit switched-based and packet switched-based network infrastructures. Even though IMS is still in the early stages of development, it will be a technology to watch for all carrier types, particularly within the 2008-2009 timeframe, as it begins to be implemented by service providers around the world. "The key factors propelling the carrier adoption of IMS include lower capital and operational expenditures, shorter new product introduction (NPI) for next-gen services, flexibility in creating new ‘combinational services’, and higher average revenue per user (ARPU) due to the advent of new services," state the analysts of this research service. "At the same time, providing the capability to work with different equipment manufacturers will be one of the main challenges IMS has to offer." Service providers and carriers have to test a number of functions and interfaces in IMS. However, with undefined standards, interoperability among different vendors with varied perspectives is likely to be difficult. No single vendor can provide solutions for all applications in one platform for successful IMS voice implementation. In addition, integration of legacy networks is highly significant for the success of VoIP services. Therefore, multi-vendor interoperability and network interoperability are anticipated to pose a challenge in the IMS voice test and monitoring space. Successful IMS Deployments to Have Positive Ripple Effect on Prospects of Related Test and Monitoring Vendors IMS is considered an important part of the seamless mobility between mobile telephony and fixed wireless. The need for fixed-mobile convergence is driven by greater customer needs in terms of wireless coverage, triple play services to the handset, and delivery of carrier-grade quality of service (QoS). IMS can seamlessly add extra functionality for triple play customers. Unified Communications also drives the growth of the IMS market. Unified Communications means the redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended addressee at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cell phone when needed or e-mail sent to a desktop mailbox sent to the user's PDA or turned into speech for a telephone message. Even though Unified Communications as a term is used synonymously with Unified Messaging, Unified Communications means real-time delivery, while Unified Messaging involves the ability to gather messages from several sources to be retrieved at a later time. Successful IMS deployments and usage of the architecture are anticipated to be the key to the sustained growth of the IMS test and monitoring market. IMS offers high potential growth in all platforms, including service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and enterprises. With successful IMS implementation, vendors can guarantee service level management to end users. "The success of IMS also relies on how well this architecture can function in any new infrastructure in addition to deployment in existing ones," note the analysts. "Moreover, with new services such as video being deployed and IMS likely to be a part of it, delivering such services in an efficient manner will create opportunity for test vendors in the IMS test and monitoring equipment market space. Table of Contents
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