ARMONK, N.Y. -- IBM today announced IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems) offerings to help telecommunications service providers transition to Next Generation Networks.

Within the highly competitive telecommunications market, the move to IP infrastructures is enabling service providers to better differentiate themselves in order to ensure revenue protection and growth. Service providers are motivated to move to IP-based infrastructures in order to reduce costs, improve revenue growth and profitability and better incorporate new partners into their services ecosystem.

IBM IMS solutions enable evolution from legacy networks to converged Next Generation Networks. Legacy and evolving components are integrated by using open computing standards enabling service providers to deliver an enhanced user experience while creating an added value network and a service roadmap that can be more easily managed.

IBM offers telecommunications industry clients pre-integrated business solutions that are based on an architecture which integrates IMS with existing service environments. The solutions are fully tested and designed to meet carrier grade quality standards. The IBM IMS architecture is built on components to reduce integration costs and leverages the IBM SPDE framework for continuity of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) evolution along with SOA and Web Services where appropriate. The solutions also enable service providers to evolve their current environments with predefined roadmaps that are customized to their specific requirements.

"IMS is only relevant if it is directly contributing towards corporate fiscal and strategic objectives," said Joseph Ziskin, Vice President of strategy and growth initiatives, IBM Telecommunications Industry. "IBM's IMS offerings enable revenue growth for service providers by delivering services to market quickly at a lower cost."

IBM Corp.