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IMS Crash Course | Paperback

by Steven Shepard (Author)

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$39.95

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Binding:

Paperback

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

Edition:

1st Edition

Page Count:

400 Pages

Publication Date:

February 27, 2006

Sales Rank:

1,191,868st

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
An Introduction to This Innovative and Revolutionary Next-Generation Communication Solution The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a powerful, emerging technology that will change the way we live, work, and communicate. Through convergence of fixed and wireless networks, IMS delivers seamless roaming to multimedia devices regardless of location or access modality. This much-needed resource gives you an easy-to-understand overview of the development, evolving standards, and excitingly imminent future of IMS. Expand Your Understanding of IMS Written by a renowned professional author and educator with 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, IMS Crash Course gives you a broad perspective on why IMS evolved, how the technology works, its system requirements, and potential regulatory issues—all in one convenient package. If you are looking to make sense of this breakthrough technology, its benefits, and its real-world implementations, read this book first. Full coverage of IMS including: An early history of IMS Converging wireless and wireline Network, software, and signaling requirements IMS regulatory issues IMS’s future

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 1.5 based on 4 reviews)

Useless book by Drosophila

1 Stars
January 29, 2007
A thoroughly useless book: For the first two thirds of the book the author prattles on about his theories of social change and gives incoherent accounts of the history of telecomm. The part that actually addresses IMS is superficial, disorganized and repetitive - a hastily thrown together mishmash of existing speeches and papers. At the end you haven't learned much about IMS. Spend your money and time elsewhere.

Highly Disappointed by J. Crafton (New York)

1 Stars
October 12, 2006
This book is a complete waste. THIS PUBLISHED SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED TO HAVE PUT OUT A BOOK THIS BAD. The first half is the authors musings about social theories that are completely irrelavant (90 pages worth), and once he gets to the part on technology, he offers little explanation other that providing few charts he got from other places. He clearly does not understand IMS and that is why he spends so little time covering it. This looks like a book quickly cobbled together from existing materials so that that the publisher could get one more book out in their Crash Course Series that covers IMS. Unfortunatley they failed miserably and damaged thier reputation in my view.

Not what you'd expect from the title by Some User

3 Stars
July 10, 2006
If you're looking for a technical discussion of IMS, you won't find it in this book. Only 2 to 3 pages are devoted to discussing SIP, for example, which forms the core of IMS's communication infrastructure. The acronym filled diagrams are mostly unexplained (one feels the author didn't understand them), and many concepts are either dropped in without explanation or barely explained. For example, in : "Alternatively,the HSS can be accessed via a Mobile Application Part (MAP) server, which is used for IM-SSF (IP Multimedia Service Switching Function), which interfaces with Customized Applications for Mobile Networks Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) application server using the CAMEL application part (CAP)," none of the acronyms/functions are explained (with the exception of "HSS"). IF you didn't know what this stuff is already, you won't get it from reading this book. If you're looking for a general discussion of market forces, trends, and policies, (filled with catchy, sound-bite-like phrases) this book might be better for you.

A feckless book on a nullity of a marketecture by dogstogo (New York, NY United States)

1 Stars
June 14, 2006
This book is a complete waste of time. Three quarters of the book is irrelevant, with the author dabbling in social theories (The Boomers vs Gen X vs The Millenials), the history of tech and telecom, "imagine this..." pie in the sky scenarios that describe what IMS is supposed to deliver, and a thick glossary of tech and telecom terms. One gets the feeling that the author had an obligation to fill a certain number of pages but couldn't do so on a nascent topic such as IMS. Don't waste your time or money.

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