Who is going to win big with IMS?
The companies best positioned to win big with IMS are IT and network operations outsourcing companies serving large enterprises or Fortune 500 companies. Why? IMS makes sense in the enterprise space, because they are the first adopters of VoIP allocationsparticularly fixed mobile convergenceand have budgets for new telecom applications that save money and create a competitive edge. Why IT/networking outsourcers? Because they manage not only IT applications but network security. Note that IMS is about merging IT with IP networking; also, a problematic area for IMS is network security. Who better to manage corporate IMS network security than outsourcing network security experts? The best part is that outsourcing operators also are application service providers: they rent their apps to their clients. If you want to find out if the telecom analysts are either optimistic or pessimistic on these 20 IMS questionsand which outsourcing companies will be the big winners with IMS in the enterpris
