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March 02, 2007
Private Conversations TelMex and IMS
Had lunch at VON Mexico with a few of the engineers attending our SIP tutorial. They were not particularly ready to implement SIP, but they are less ready to implement IMS.
The discussion was centered around the lack of real gains in services being demonstrated by their IMS vendors. It is also obvious that they prefer to keep with the big companies. I went through a discussion about the usual suspects and it was clear the preference was for Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent and not for upstarts like Sonim and Mavenir.
I found this a little ironic since both of the smaller companies have been partnered with Ericsson.
Back in the days when TelMex was a government company many of the execs spoke fluent Swedish thanks to the Ericsson connection.
I did not get the impression that Ericsson or Nortel were on the current radar screen.
We also talked about the number of IMS systems probably deployed in a company that can bundle quadruple play services. I got the impression that they want to see one working and Telmex has that charge.
In many companies the number of IMS platforms seems to be based on the LOB looking to sell new services.
Posted by carl at March 2, 2007 06:41 AM