[Serdev] So who/what is SER for, anyway?

[Martin Hoffmann]

Dragos Vingarzan wrote:
> Jiri Kuthan wrote:
> >
> > what is NGN? -jiri
> >
> Rhetorical question... yet here's an answer :) - An abstract term, often
> employed by clueless marketing people to describe a fictive solution
> that would magically solve all problems of declining telcos in the face
> of disruptive services like p2p, VoIP, skype, google, etc. Was this what
> you wanted to hear ;-)?

Wasn't the more technical explanation along the lines of it being a
fenced off IP network with QoS? The magical marketing thingie is IMS,
isn't it?

> Well, now I wish I could go 6 years back and return the question: What
> is SIP? I am sure that your answer would've gone beyond VoIP. Come on,
> let me be idealistic. It didn't hurt you too much, right?

It might have. The Internet people keep saying that voice is just
another application. SIP is just another protocol for that application.
It is good at doing telephony style things. Some of them go beyond
voice, but actually not much further than SMS. SIP could serve as an
event distribution protocol, but IMHO it is to bulky for that. As a
million customer provider, just having registrations and subscriptions
for MWI is producing a huge amount of refresh traffic.

> Come on guys, I am not the IMS advocate here. If you think it's bad and
> want to avoid it at all costs, fine with me.

I honestly don't care about IMS. I do think that there is not much room
for open source in IMS, since it is telco stuff and they don't really
trust anything open.

Regards,
Martin