Pyramid Research expects that IP Multimedia Subsystem ( News - Alert) (IMS  ) standards will reach a pivotal level of stability sometime in 2009, and that IMS release 7 and 8 will mark the first stage in this process. The findings come from the report IMS Market Opportunities: From Standardization to Implementation published by Pyramid.
"As IMS standards stabilize with these two releases, vendors will have at their disposal a much more actionable set of product requirements to build to, giving service providers more confidence in designing networks that can support both their immediate service needs and those of the future," commented Leslie Arathoon, vice president of research at Pyramid Research and coauthor of the report.
The report concluded that these service needs, and the long-term strategies that underlie them, will ultimately drive IMS sales, which in turn is expected to spur a wave of new products between 2009 and 2010 that will remove service providers' barriers to implementation.
The report analyzes the current status of IMS, the enabling business and content delivery models. It discusses the timeline for IMS standards development in light of both demand drivers and risk factors, and provides an adoption timeline, on which is based an estimate regarding the size of the IMS-based services market and forecasted revenue for IMS equipment and software. The report discussed in deail all of the research firm’s underlying assumptions.
Some of the key findings of the report include:
--As standards bodies, platform vendors and service providers reach a critical mass of consensus around architectures, security and broad service categories, IMS standards will mature.
--Service innovation will drive IMS equipment demand, but this will be unevenly distributed between markets.
--Service providers look at IMS as more than just an enabler of innovative Web-based offerings.
The report allows reader to assess when IMS standards development will reach a level that encourages significant adoption, when the adoption drivers will be strong enough to create the momentum IMS needs, the issues that stand in the way of a mature set of IMS standards and how the various industry bodies are dealing with challenges.
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