Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90274)
has announced the addition of “IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS): The Market for Applications and Services 2008-2013”
to their offering.
The eroding margins for voice services coupled with competition from
Skype, Google, Yahoo, et al has forced traditional wireless and wireline
service providers to "take the battle to the enemy". Service providers
have found IMS to be an effective vehicle on which these applications
can be designed, rolled out, implemented, augmented and maintained. This
report represents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the role of
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in implementing rich multimedia
applications.
Although there many potential IMS applications, this report focuses on
the following key rich multimedia applications:
- Video Calls
- Unified Messaging
- Push-to-Talk
- Wireless/Wireline Convergence
- Online Gaming
- Video-on-Demand
The above applications are analyzed with respect to the following
aspects:
- Key deliverables of the applications
- Traditional implementation methodologies
- Key IMS enabled implementation value additions
- Implementation case studies
- Subscriber revenue forecasts for 2008-2013
- Geographical distribution of the subscriber revenues
Key Report Benefits
- IMS business and technology drivers, components, and the role of
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
- Analyzes IMS enhancements in the implementation of individual rich
multimedia applications
- Evaluates major vendors with IMS enabled application solutions
(Includes Alcatel-Lucent, Bridgeport Networks/CounterPath, Comverse,
Ericsson, Huawei, Kasenna, Kineto Wireless, Motorola, Nortel, RadiSys,
Radvision, Tatara Systems, and Tekelec)
- Forecasts 2008-2013 subscriber revenues for IMS enabled
implementations (Includes twenty-two charts segmented by application and
by world region)