IMS: The Technology, Applications, and Challenges November 13, 2007

Communications networks are rapidly evolving into policy-based, packet-oriented networks intended to provide a particular quality-of-services (QoS) to subscribers while reducing the costs of capital expansions, network operations, and management. If you are in telecommunications engineering, deployment, strategy, marketing, or services creation, it is imperative that you understand the technology and business implications of IMS. This course looks at IMS from all angles including the technology, status of wireless and wireline standards, key challenges posed by the technology, financial drivers for its adoption, deployment, and even security considerations. You will also study the issue of network policy and how the different levels and types of policies for QoS and admission control have important implications for traffic engineering in the evolving networks. We will conclude with a look at the future of telecommunications networks, including a flat, all-IP infrastructure.

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