Next Generation Messaging: Evolution to IMS and SIP
- -Mobile VAS Equipment Vendors, Independent solution providers, System Integrators and related professional services companies -Personnel responsible for Mobile messaging, VAS, Sales and Marketing and person responsible for growth of ARPU. -Providers of value-added applications like televoting, mass calling events and SMPP applications etc as finally all apps have to be integrated with SMSC -Excellent overview to technical target audience including system architects, technical consultants and industry analysts
- -Discussion of market growth of messaging worldwide and statistics -Evaluation of companies and solutions in messaging space -Features comparison between various messaging systems including SMS, Instant Messaging (IM) and VMS systems -Feature and functionality comparison between various IM clients and market growth including Adium, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo -Solutions for NGN in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and SIP environment -Business aspects of messaging toward a NGN environment -Addresses issues with messaging platforms and how operators can address them with various solutions
1. Introduction
2. Target Audience
3. Evolution of Messaging
4. SMS- Market Growth
5. Journey of Short Message Service Center
- Store and Forward Mechanism
- Limitation of Legacy Messaging platforms - Need for Migration to NGN
Evolution of IMS Messaging
6. Way towards NGN Messaging - Solutions through SMS Router
7. What is SMS ROUTER and Why to have in Network? - Detailed Answer
- Real time Message Delivery not based on Store and Forward Mechanism or First Delivery Attempt
- SMSC Load Balancing
- SMS Firewall -- SMS Router for Filtering SPAM Messages
8. NGN Messaging - Beyond SMS towards True Convergence [Unified Messaging using SIP]
Instant Messaging
Instant Messaging Market Analysis
Mobile Instant Messaging Gateway
Instant Messaging gateway checklist
Pager Mode
Multi-party Instant Message
9. Companies in NGN Messaging Space
- Acision
- Aricent
- Bharti Telesoft
- Comverse
- Intervoice
- NeuStar
- OZ
- Tanla Solutions
- Telenity
- TEKELEC
9. Instant Messaging Clients
Adium
AIM
Google talk
ICQ
Skype
Windows Live Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
10. Operator Challenges
11. Conclusions and Recommendations
List of Tables and Figures
Chart 1: Text Messages Sent in UK, Source MDA
Chart 2: Instant Messaging Penetration in Percentage: Source Capgemini
Chart 3: Enterprise and Public IM messages: Source Radicati group, INC.
Chart 4: UK Messaging Traffic: Source Capgemini
Chart 5: Number of Mobile Instant Messaging Users
Table 1: Survey of U.S. Mobile Subscribers
Table 2: Comparison of Features between Different Messaging Platforms
Table 3: Skypephone Availability
Figure 1: SMSC Connectivity in a Network
Figure 2: Message Flow in a Network without SMS Router
Figure 3: SMS Router Architecture in Network
Figure 4: First Delivery Attempt
Figure 5: Message Flow in a Network with SMS Router
Figure 6: Message Flow in a Network with SMS Router based on Load Balancing
Figure 7: Spam Message Filtered based on Text
Figure 8: Network Architecture using SMS router
Figure 9: Mobile Instant Messaging Gateway
Figure 10: Pager Mode
Figure 11: Chatting using Instant Messaging
