Despite Naysayers, IMS Has Real Potential in Enterprise Market

In-Stat: Despite widespread views to the contrary, enterprise businesses will likely become a hot market for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services IMS has the potential to generate over US$15 billion annually by 2010 for US carriers, . IMS provides enterprises with the means of accommodating secure data transmittal and communication between remote workers, outsourced third-party vendors and trusted corporate partners. Carriers can use IMS-based network applications and services to become more than just suppliers of enterprise transport facilities. The integration of IMS-based network capabilities into enterprise operations (internal processes such as order entry, CRM, etc.) will also increase corporate reliance on network services.

• Enterprises will be able to use the resilient IMS network architecture to access highly survivable data centers and eliminate the need for expensive, dedicated stand-by systems/network facilities.

• Over 45% of respondents to an In-Stat survey indicated they would consider re-engineering internal processes to take advantage of IMS-based network services with lower-cost business continuity capabilities.

IMS in the Enterprise Market

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