This IDC study provides an overview and market forecast for both the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)/MMD infrastructure and service delivery platform (SDP) markets in Japan for 2008-2012. The Japan IMS/MMD infrastructure market includes hardware, software, and professional services.
"The need to reduce CapEx and OpEx, and the "end-of-life" of legacy infrastructure are major drivers for IMS/MMD. The carriers' plans to migrate their massive installed base of circuit switched systems including both wireline and wireless to NGN/IP will provide significant challenges and growth opportunities for softswitch and media gateway equipment vendors, back-office OSS/BSS vendors, application developers and professional services organizations," says George Hoffman, group manager, Communications, IDC Japan.