editor’s note Nay to the Naysayers! by Richard “Zippy” Grigonis Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-In-Chief (
[email protected]) We’ve heard it before: Slow progress on standardization and EDITORIAL interoperability, unclear business models, unknown economic Greg Galitzine, Group Editorial Director (
[email protected]) benefits. IMS didn’t exactly rocket out of the gate in 2007, but as Richard "Zippy" Grigonis, Executive Editor (
[email protected]) you’ll see from the contents of this issue, it didn’t stand still either. Erik Linask, Associate Editor (
[email protected]) TMC LABS France Telecom has been running its Technocentre that creates and analyzes IMS-compliant Tom Keating, Executive Technology Editor/CTO/VP services, and since the world’s telecom infrastructure is going to end up with a single service ART architecture, they merged their fixed, mobile and Internet technical teams into one big entity. Alan Urkawich, Creative Director Lisa A. Mellers, Graphic Designer And 2008 is shaping up to be a really interesting year for IMS. (Our bellwether, France EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Telecom, estimates that between five and ten percent of its revenues will be derived from full or Nadji Tehrani, Chairman and CEO Rich Tehrani, President partial IMS services by the end of 2008.) Dave Rodriguez, VP of Publications, Conferences & Online Media Michael Genaro, VP of Marketing Work still needs to be done of course. Massive interoperability testing occurred during 2007 Editorial Offices: 203-852-6800 Customer Service: For all customer service and will continue into 2008. matters, call 203-852-6800. Moreover, IMS calls upon SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) to jump through quite a few hoops, far ADVERTISING SALES Sales Office Phone: 203-852-6800 more than the original SIP specification called for, which is why the history of SIP has been a Anthony Graffeo, Sr.