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IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Integration

Innovative consulting services that help accelerate your IMS implementations while minimizing risk and complexity.

When you are considering the revenue potential of IMS-based services, it's essential that you understand how the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) will transform not just the network, but every aspect of your business. IMS allows you to offer your customers a host of new and useful services. IMS can also mean improved revenue growth and customer retention, as well as streamlined and lower cost operations. But are you and your organization prepared for all the challenges that IMS brings?

Telcordia telecom consultants help companies worldwide to meet these kinds of transformation challenges. We offer many services that support IMS-related applications and implementations. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, our engineering and professional consulting services can help you maximize the benefits of introducing new technologies, platforms, services or products.

Our IMS Consulting Offers include:


  • IMS Services Planning & Analysis
    • We will assess the business & market potential of new IMS services for both residential and enterprise subscribers. Assessments include validation of new service ideas & concepts, business case & profitability analyses, competitive analyses and network & operational strategies.
    • We deliver service forecasts, revenue projections, sensitivity analyses, baseline of current network & service capabilities, target network & operational architectures and expense estimates associated with running, maintaining and delivering new services.
  • End-to-End IMS Architecture Design
    • We will design the network, OSS and BSS architectures required to support new services based on customer market needs.
    • We prepare financial & technical comparisons of alternative architectures to support converged services to drive technology direction, operations plans and budgets.
    • We deliver strategies to help future-proof the solution given industry & technology trends and to meet industry-leading service metrics, as well as vendor evaluations and identification of the investments required based on a gap analysis.
  • IMS Business & Operations Analysis
    • We will assess business and operations processes and make recommendations to support new IMS services. The assessment includes order & activation flow-through, new service creation & delivery, and service quality management capabilities.
  • IMS Integration Testing
    • We will develop the overall test strategy, test plans and test cases to support the introduction of IMS services within an IMS ecosystem.
    • We will undertake standalone testing, pair-wise testing and end-to-end solution testing.
    • We will conduct operational readiness testing, from order to bill/cash involving all layers of the solution (network, EMS, OSS and BSS).
  • Service Customization
    • We will customize, enable and configure emerging IMS applications such as ringback tones, location-based services, video services, real-time charging, prepaid/post-paid services and more on the Telcordia service delivery platform to meet customer requirements using service creation tools.