You can’t discuss communication protocols nowadays without bringing up IMS. Although IMS started as a mobile-centric protocol, it is now all encompassing and also includes IPTV. Since both Packet Cable and TISPAN make use of IMS, IPTV also has an IMS architecture connected to it. IMS for IPTV starts simply from the fact that operators today are mostly triple-play or quad-play players: their services include telephony, television, internet browsing and mobile phones. Quad-play doesn’t mean convergence in any way -
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 18th, 2008 | Filed under IPTV
Can SIP be used for consumer market devices or will it only exist in the enterprise domain? This seems like an easy question to answer - surely it is suitable for consumers as well. I met with a customer last month who is working on a videophone consumer product. Their company is specifically looking for a proprietary signaling protocol. The reason for this is: SIP is good only for the enterprise market I know for a fact that
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 7th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Developing a videophone or any other telecommunication client? You should start thinking seriously about IMS. Today, there are two main standards used for multimedia communications over IP: SIP and H.323, where SIP is the standard which is being adopted by most vendors today - especially in the consumer market. As 3GPP, 3GPP2, TISPAN, Packet Cable and WiMAX have all selected IMS for their next generation networks, it goes without saying that a lot of vendors will start working on IMS
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 6th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
