IMS Deployments Edging Up as Leading LTE Operators Ramp for VoLTE, Reaching US$4B by 2017

摘要

ABI Research finds IMS Core Network deployments are edging up as operators put the necessary infrastructure and capacity in place for planned 2014 VoLTE launches. Spending for the core network products (HSS, CSC, Media Controllers and Gateways, MSF, IBCF, SBC and P-CSCF) integral to a functioning IMS network will reach US$4 billion by 2017. "We see increasing IMS Core Network revenues through 2017," comments Joe Hoffman, research director, "after which IMS revenues will flatten and reflect canacitv expansion."