I have just completed a first version of a course on the IMS Application Layer. I will start to trial it in my company and we should soon be able to accept requests from interested companies or individuals.This is a 2-day course that can be delivered either in French or in English (the material is in English). There will be regular sessions organized in my company's premises in Saint-Cloud, Paris,...

In the past, I had the opportunity to write three posts (here and there and there) about the 3GPP concept of Communication Service. These posts were written in the heat of possibly major IMS-defining decisions being taken, in order to warn about some risks related to some options. Time has passed and the concept is now (nearly totally) specified in IMS. In this post I will describe Communication Se...

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics and qualities to nonhuman beings, inanimate objects, or natural or supernatural phenomena (wikipedia). The pictures taken from various cartoons by Tex Avery that you can see at the top of this post illustrate an anthropomorphic behavior associated to animals. Service anthropomorphism is therefore the possibility for an IMS servic...

Most operators do not want to be reduced to the role of bitpipe provider, offering low cost connectivity to services supplied by other companies. They want to be service providers themselves, and try to figure out how IMS will help them achieving this objective. This basic point aside, the strategies between operators might diverge, and their differences may essentially lie into the level of contro...

Tracking the standardization of IMS in 3GPP is a difficult and time consuming task. There are so many working groups involved (e.g. SA1, SA2, SA3, CT1), and so many meetings.I recently came across Hughes Systique Corporation, a Consulting, Development and System Integration company Headquarted in the US,which seems to be doing a lot of interesting work in the IMS, Web 2.0 and convergence of the sam...