Comments on: BroadSoft to Partner With BEA http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: herman manfred http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132348 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:29:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132348 I think you’ll find, on deeper looking, that none of those are IMS deployments but merely intent (at best).

AFAIK, NONE of the infrastructure companies – Lucent, Sonus, etc have ANY IMS equipment/software “out there”.

Lots of lip service, of course, but that’s not real (for example, Sonus touts its “IMS ready” items and one of their top guys even said the rough equivalent of “will be IMS compatible with a small amount of programming”! LOL!).

None of this is surprising since IMS itself is, in general, still a moving target.

]]> By: Rajeev http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132347 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:06:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132347 The list includes

  • Verizon
  • Sprint
  • SBC, BLS, Cingular

They had announced way back in 05 or 06 their IMS investments. And most of these were core infrastructure investments. Apparently there have been a steady flow of RFP/RFIs from Lat-Am too. Even good ol’ Qwest is looking for a multi service network.

To the contrary, SIP servers and other app layer deployments have been very few..and so far the likes of BEA/IBM/Ubiquity have been lagging behind Lucent/Ericsson. But with Round 2 coming, hosted telephony and managed services and all – it remains to be seen who’ll come out on top. And that is probably the single biggest factor driving all these partnership annuncements – case in point Ubiquity/Avaya, BEA/Broadsoft et al.

]]> By: herman manfred http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132345 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:44:41 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132345 IMS “deployments” are all around the US? I find that essentially TOTALLY impossible to believe.

Name one.

SIP deployment? Yes.

IMS? Uh uh.

]]> By: Rajeev http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132346 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:58:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/bea-broadsoft/#comment-132346 Interesting..IBM has also been pushing Broadsoft quite a bit on their Bladecenter platform – so with BEA with their fledgling WLCP tagging along its all in the family, eh? OTOH, your observation about IMS deployments being theory and no practice – to the contrary, I see them all over the place for Tier-1, Tier-2 telcos in NA and Lat-Am. In fact, most of the “bootstrap” infrastructure deployments have been done..its going to be Round 2 soon. Probably that explains why the traditional IT vendors are coming together to put up a stronger fight against NEPs like Lucent.

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