Why Sonus is so far ahead
Slide 13-19 show the NGN architectures of Sonus and the 'other' options.
Notice the power and simplicity of the Sonus architecture versus the convoluted, 'smoke and mirror' attempts by other vendors.
In essence, it appears that incumbents like ALU, ERICSON tried to 'hide' their weakness in hybrid softswitching by promoting their 'IMS' architecture. In other words, their attempt was 'choose our IMS design, it is a cool idea isn't it? (although completely unproven in the field) and the softswitching, well that is only a part of the equation anyway. Pay no attention to that element behind the green curtain!
Nortel appears to be the most lacking in any NGN strategy.
That diagram looks scary. Cisco doesn't have a carrier grade softswitch in the same league as Sonus. Huweii, well outside of China they are simply not a major player. (With prevalant carrier hesitance in involving the Chinese government, it should stay that way for a long time.)
Anyway, so now comes along a well researched report interviewing hundreds of carriers from Heavy Reading clearly demonstrating that the 'buy IMS first, softswitching second' simply isn't going to fly.
Carriers are not going to define their NGN architectures by unproven IMS concepts that will undoubtedly change with time anyway. They will instead continue to buy and build their NGN's with only proven solutions. And guess who is the only real choice for scale, proven reliability and forward looking archtiecture? Sonus.
Carriers are buying and and now will probably buy in greater numbers the best, most forward looking and proven softswitching. IMS will develop upon that foundation. NOT vice versa.
Not only does that thrust sonus into the position as the dominant architecture of the future, but it also places Sonus as the most likely carrier to sell thse same operators all the IMS servers and applications.
It looks like it may be quite a ride up. :)
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