Pipeline Publishing, Volume 6, Issue 2

	This Month's Issue:
	IMS and Beyond: The Future of Convergence

Opening Up SCPs

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Service composition & interaction: Efficient, low-cost creation of service variants, thus overcoming service-chaining complexities and the associated administrative overheads.

SIP/IMS Connectivity as standard: Aligning SCP spend to address today’s problems and challenges cost effectively whilst also aligning with longer-term strategy.

CSPs regain control of their roadmap:

Reduce time-to-market: Achieve competitive differentiation by quickly introducing innovative new and “smart” services into the network. Services can be designed, implemented, and trialled in days rather than months.

Control your road map: CSPs can develop a road map of service innovation at a rate that suits their company and customers. New and variant services can be procured from an open and competitive marketplace of product and custom-build application providers.

Mitigate risk: Starting with IN augmentation, CSPs can innovate in person-to-person services whilst retaining the existing SCPs for existing services and hence eliminating unnecessary risk.

Segment: Segmenting the customer base and target markets. Delivering targeted services for each segment; in turn, increasing customer loyalty while decreasing churn.

As a CSP, once you have procured your SCP, you are a hostage to fortune.

Eliminate legacy SCP Lock-in:

Eliminate vendor lock-in and transform the service layer: Break down legacy barriers imposed by proprietary hardware vendors and deliver an agile and low cost development environment in the service layer; reduce and eventually eliminate the current IN as it exists today.

Open standards platform: Open up the service layer to a host of person-to-person application developers, to rapidly deliver innovative new services to market, without the issue of proprietary protocols.

Maximize value of existing infrastructure: delivery of an open, scalable platform that integrates with both open and proprietary infrastructures to maximize existing investments.

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