IMS is a Revolutionary Vision for Telecommunications

"The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has become one of the hottest topics in telecommunications.  In-Stat believes that IMS provides a unifying vision for the future of telecommunications, and that it is more appropriate now to think of IMS as an overall IP Multimedia System that consists of a single, converged architecture for wireline and wireless service providers, end-user devices with the required IP multimedia functionality, and the systems integration necessary to deliver high-quality IP multimedia services for and between any set of wireline and wireless end-users.  ¶  ... IMS is a revolutionary vision for the future of the telecommunications industry, leading to new multimedia services, new network architectures, new business models and relationships, and new end-user devices with new capabilities. In the long term, all telecommunications services (voice services, business networking services, the Internet, IPTV) will be provided through IMS. ..."  Link:  In-Stat press release.  Note:  Wikipedia has a good overview of the technology.  --Dennis