{"id":6045,"date":"2007-11-05T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ims-in-a-box.html"},"modified":"2007-11-05T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T05:00:48","slug":"ims-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ims-in-a-box.html","title":{"rendered":"IMS in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In the IMS space perhaps one of the most controversial concepts I hear is IMS in a box. You see, some vendors tell me the whole concept of IMS in a box is counter to the concept of why the IP multimedia subsystem framework was developed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">My two cents? I like the concept from a marketing perspective and in the real world we all know IMS scales so the term &ldquo;box&rdquo; shouldn&rsquo;t be a deterrent. So I was happy to hear that HP has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/ims\/articles\/13572-hp-teams-with-tekelec-bea-systems-ims-a.htm\">teamed<\/a> with Tekelec and BEA Systems to provide such an &ldquo;IMS in a Box&rdquo; system which combines applications and third-party software vendors with HP&rsquo;s OpenCall Home Subscriber Server, BEA Systems&rsquo; WebLogic Session Initiation Protocol Server and Tekelec&rsquo;s TekCore Session Manager.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">As you may have guessed by now these components interoperate seamlessly to create a complete IMS solution and this is why I like it. In other words an actual working multi-vendor solution is always better than a single-vendor locked-in approach. And it is always better than a disparate bunch of products which may or may not work together.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">For more information, check what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/\">TMCnet<\/a>&rsquo;s Mae Kowalke has to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/ims\/articles\/13572-hp-teams-with-tekelec-bea-systems-ims-a.htm\">say<\/a> on the matter and be sure to frequent TMCnet&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/channels\/ims\/\">IMS<\/a> Channel and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/ims\/\">IMS Magazine<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the IMS space perhaps one of the most controversial concepts I hear is IMS in a box. You see, some vendors tell me the whole concept of IMS in a box is counter to the concept of why the IP multimedia subsystem framework was developed. &nbsp; My two cents? I like the concept from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,199,189,118,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}