“With this BayPackets acquisition, we get a lot of mindshare in the IMS area,” says GENBAND’s Frederick Reynolds. “We will never compete with the hardcore softswitch vendors in the big carriers, against the Lucents and the Nortels of the world. But we can be a nice complement on the infrastructure side and on the application side, and so we can sort of sandwich ourselves into that position. For smaller carriers we can do everything ourselves, but for large carrier networks we need to be able to fold in and cooperate and interoperate with the large softswitches and IP/SIP-based devices that are going to play a huge part in the IMS world.”