Comments on: IMS: Cute But Wrong http://saunderslog.com/2005/12/28/ims-cute-but-wrong/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Technological Musings http://saunderslog.com/2005/12/28/ims-cute-but-wrong/#comment-2664 Technological Musings Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:15:37 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2005/12/28/ims-cute-but-wrong/#comment-2664 <strong>Why the Hurry?</strong> Frank W. Miller of Cornfed System VoIP made a post in response to the anti-IMS posting made by some. Though I'm not going to say anything as to whether IMS is relevant or not, some of the points he raised... Why the Hurry?

Frank W. Miller of Cornfed System VoIP made a post in response to the anti-IMS posting made by some. Though I’m not going to say anything as to whether IMS is relevant or not, some of the points he raised…

]]> By: Frank Miller http://saunderslog.com/2005/12/28/ims-cute-but-wrong/#comment-2653 Frank Miller Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:34:14 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2005/12/28/ims-cute-but-wrong/#comment-2653 I'll have to play devil's advocate here I think. There sure is a lot of whining out there about the telcos (and in the interest of full disclosure, I have no relationship with any telco). However, I think I'm a little more sympathetic than most. Let's face it, 100 years ago, there was no phone system. Fifty years ago, there was very little digital equipment servicing phone users. Twenty-five years ago, there was no Internet to speak of. What I'm trying to figure out is, why is everybody in such a hurry. I mean, humans have been on this planet for thousands of generations and we have to whine about the fact that the telcos haven't rolled out your favorite killer app for you latest video-im-converged-mobile-wifi-itunes-enabled-blackberry thing-a-ma-jig? Jeez, give these guys a little bit of a break. They have to provide service to everybody in this country under 911 and Universal Service and all sorts of other burdensom regulations not the least of which is it has to just plain work, every single time! This is no small feat, and last time I checked, they were doing a relatively good job at it. So, now there's IMS. Well, what did you expect, these guys were going to just chuck all their equipment and processes to start hacking with the Linux kernel weenies? No, they are systematically incorporating the new IP technology into their existing system in a way that integrates the old and the new. That means making two-wire phones from 1920 work with mobile phones and mobile broadband and doing it all with boxes that didn't even exist 5 years ago. I think we could cut them just a little bit of slack. I’ll have to play devil’s advocate here I think. There sure is a lot of whining out there about the telcos (and in the interest of full disclosure, I have no relationship with any telco). However, I think I’m a little more sympathetic than most. Let’s face it, 100 years ago, there was no phone system. Fifty years ago, there was very little digital equipment servicing phone users. Twenty-five years ago, there was no Internet to speak of. What I’m trying to figure out is, why is everybody in such a hurry. I mean, humans have been on this planet for thousands of generations and we have to whine about the fact that the telcos haven’t rolled out your favorite killer app for you latest video-im-converged-mobile-wifi-itunes-enabled-blackberry thing-a-ma-jig? Jeez, give these guys a little bit of a break. They have to provide service to everybody in this country under 911 and Universal Service and all sorts of other burdensom regulations not the least of which is it has to just plain work, every single time! This is no small feat, and last time I checked, they were doing a relatively good job at it.

So, now there’s IMS. Well, what did you expect, these guys were going to just chuck all their equipment and processes to start hacking with the Linux kernel weenies? No, they are systematically incorporating the new IP technology into their existing system in a way that integrates the old and the new. That means making two-wire phones from 1920 work with mobile phones and mobile broadband and doing it all with boxes that didn’t even exist 5 years ago. I think we could cut them just a little bit of slack.

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