Foreword
IMS – the IP Multimedia Subsystem of the 3GPP family of telecommunication standards – may very well be at the same time the worst and the best kept secret of the telecom world. “Secret” because it is essentially designed to be invisible – the modern version of the infrastructure that delivers communication to the world. “Worst kept” because it has dominated the strategies for communication evolution in the past years, and has thus been very visible, at least to those in the industry. And finally “best kept”, as it is right now sneaking up to become the key technology it was built to be, with the advent of new personal communication concepts like RCS (Rich Communication Suite) and the way IMS will provide telephony services to the emerging ...
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