IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective (Hardcover)

Providing an holistic approach to IMS technologies, IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective explores service architecture for development and delivery of IMS services.  Approaching IMS from the perspective of the user and the service provider it examines both the current state of deployment and future trends. The book offers a realistic view of IMS deployment to operators and service providers, giving practical examples, application cases and business models. It also presents IMS deployment strategies based on real-life deployment statistics from a live IMS test bed connected to an operator network and proof-of-concept applications including inter-operability trials and results.

Focusing on IMS potential in terms of service creation, service composition and service provision the book discusses the ability of IMS to act not only as a service delivery framework, but also as a service integration framework. It presents the possible future of IMS in terms of convergence with Internet services, including discussions about integration with web technologies including the WIMS 2.0 initiative. The book enables a better understanding of how web technologies can complement the IMS service architecture and pioneer the post-IMS progress and success.

• Presents a novel service-oriented approach to IMS services and applications from a deployment perspective 
• Places IMS in the context of the current telecom environment providing business models through WIMS 2.0 initiative
• Predicts the trends and potential future for the IMS evolution
• Provides a technical foundation to IMS principles and architecture
• Gives examples and solutions to the challenges of service creation and implementation and analyses deployment hurdles and interoperability trials
• Describes trends of convergence based on IMS and Web technologies

《IMS: A Development and Deployment Perspective》提供了一個全面的IMS技術方法，探討了IMS服務的開發和交付的服務架構。從用戶和服務提供商的角度來看待IMS，它檢視了當前的部署狀況和未來的趨勢。該書向運營商和服務提供商提供了IMS部署的實際觀點，並提供了實際案例、應用案例和商業模型。它還根據與運營商網絡相連的實時IMS測試平台和概念驗證應用，提出了基於實際部署統計的IMS部署策略和互操作性試驗結果。

該書聚焦於IMS在服務創建、服務組合和服務提供方面的潛力，討論了IMS不僅作為服務交付框架，還作為服務集成框架的能力。它介紹了IMS與互聯網服務融合的可能未來，包括與WIMS 2.0倡議的整合討論。該書使人更好地理解Web技術如何補充IMS服務架構，並引領IMS後續進展和成功。

該書具有以下特點：
- 從部署的角度提出了一種新穎的面向服務的IMS服務和應用方法
- 將IMS置於當前電信環境的背景下，通過WIMS 2.0倡議提供商業模型
- 預測了IMS演進的趨勢和潛力未來
- 提供了IMS原則和架構的技術基礎
- 提供了服務創建和實施的挑戰的例子和解決方案，並分析了部署障礙和互操作性試驗
- 描述了基於IMS和Web技術的融合趨勢