Ims Arcs - An Industrial Academic Cooperative Research Program For Ims

IMS ARCS is an Industrial and Academic cooperative program conducting research in the area of IMS technology with a view to creating a body of intellectual property for the use of the project partners, and serving as a case study on how to develop IMS application software. This paper outlines the objectives of the project, how the research work was planned and executed, and how it intends to transfer knowledge to its industry partners and create a route to allow commercialisation of the research work. The paper also describes how a set of exemplar IMS services and enabler prototypes are being developed to showcase the research work and provide examples of how such services may be developed for commercial purposes. The prototypes will also demonstrate the capabilities of IMS, such as location and presence information, and sophisticated call control. The project employs the OpenIMS testbed from Fraunhofer Fokus, as the basis for the development and execution of the prototypes.