TMCnet is republishing, on their website, articles I originally wrote for my monthly column, "Next Wave Redux", that appears in Internet Telephony Magazine. Here's from the April 2008 column:
In the late 1980s and through the 1990s the telecom industry defined and then adopted standards for the “Intelligent Network” (IN). The objective was to make it easy to create and deploy new applications and new services. More recently the industry has defined various next generation networks, most notably the IP Multimedia System (IMS). Besides convergence economies (all services on IP), the objective is to facilitate the rapid development and deployment of new applications and new services. Sound familiar? Unfortunately, it’s not going to work any better the second time around.
Go here to read why.
Brough:
I agree with your analysis of IN. I havebeen trying to understand why similar difficulties are not there for new service platforma like Ribbit that facilitate APIs. For me there is not much diference between them. Don't they also have the business model problem? Though anybody gets access to these new platforms, they need to be controlled because they could be "service affecting"?
Posted by: Aswath Rao | June 26, 2008 at 07:32 AM