By Kfir Pravda

Next week, at VON Europe, I will moderate an exciting panel about the influence of IMS on the business of enterprise communication vendors. The panel will take place at the exhibition theater, 12th of June, at 1145. The panel will cover, among other issues:

1. The evolving needs of enterprise customers

2. The way IMS opens the enterprise communication market for operators

3. Business strategies and positioning of different market players

Our panelists include:

Stefan Karapetkov, Sr. Techinal Advisor, Polycom

Edmond Osstyn, Business Development Director, IMS Applications, Alcatel-Lucent

Adi Paz, Sr. Director, Products and Marketing, Radvision


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By Anatoli Levine

Open standards play a vital role in today’s communications. Traditional PSTN telephony, which is still empowering most of the world to communicate, wired and wireless IP networks, Internet, World Wide Web – all of this technologies we are so used to are based on Open Standards.

At the same time, open standards have their own “dark” side. They require heavy investment of time and money to develop – top notch experts from all over the world spend lots of time working on the standards. Once developed, implementation and deployment are also costly, as interoperability needs to be tested and verified. Additionally, the need to “play by the [open standard] rules” might adversely impact time to market.

A lot of today’s success stories, as Skype, for instance, are closed end systems. You don’t spend lots of time trying to reach consensus in ego and politics fight, you deploy when you ready, you control who connects to your network, you change implementation as you see fit – and this list of advantages can be easily continued.

So in the end of the day, are Open Standards helpful and beneficial or not? Do they push technology forward or become a stumbling block? IMTC (International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium), together with PulverMedia, assembled panel of experts who will help us to find answers to some of these questions.