NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JIM DUFFY WITH VIEW FROM THE EDGE 09/16/04 Today's focus: Repentance?
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Lucent gives up SIN for IMS * Links related to View from The Edge * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco IP Communications represents a major opportunity for businesses large and small. By eliminating the need to maintain separate telephone and data infrastructures, extraordinary benefits are often achieved. For information on the union of telephony and data on a single physical network and the security issues involved see the Special Report IP Telephony Security: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81193 _______________________________________________________________ CHECK OUT NW FUSION'S NEW WHITE PAPER LIBRARY NW Fusion's White Paper Library was recently re-launched with new features and improved capabilities! 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IMS The Vision should not be confused with - or should it? - IMS The Product Bundle unveiled by Lucent back in April even though the acronyms both stand for IP Multimedia Subsystem. IMS The Product Bundle combines gear from Lucent and partners Cisco, IBM and BroadSoft, to enable VoIP and multimedia services in 3G wireless networks. Both IMSes are designed for an IP-based multimedia and telephony core network; based on standards from the IETF and the 3G Partnership Project; and support standardized interfaces between applications, network layers and back-office systems. The only difference, apparently, is that IMS The Vision is access agnostic - wireline has converted and can now worship alongside wireless. Also, IMS The Product Bundle was based on Lucent's vision at that time: Service Intelligent Network (SIN). IMS The Vision apparently replaces SIN though the elements of IMS The Vision look very SIN-ful (SINilar?) in Lucent's IMS The Vision presentations. Indeed, some IMS The Vision slides look as if they actually superimpose IMS The Product Bundle on top of SIN! So Lucent's "new" vision has IMS The Product Bundle living in SIN to bear IMS The Vision. Will it be a winner? Who knows? But in the marketecture wars, it will be a SINner. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Lucent unveils wireless multimedia system Network World, 04/05/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405lucent.html Lucent investor fact sheet: Strategic focus http://www.lucent.com/investor/factbook/3q03/focus.html Lucent Technologies 2004 Financial Analyst Conference http://www.lucent.com/investor/fac04.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jim Duffy Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider equipment coverage <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/>. He has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over 12 years at Network World. 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