So far IMS has been used mainly in mobile networks for services such as video sharing and push-to-talk. IMS is not a mobile-specific service, though, and as various terminals and applications are supporting SIP and various IP-based data networks more and more, IMS-based services will be used more broadly over various networks.

This session presents operator, terminal, and application views on using IMS across various networks.

Operators will tell how they see the evolution of IMS and IMS-based services across fixed and mobile networks and share what they have learned from IMS trials they have conducted.

Terminal presentation will cover the implications of IMS and IMS services over various networks on the terminal development and terminal evolution. Presentation will cover how IMS and IMS services will be enabled across various types of terminals.

This session will give the audience a good end-to-end understanding on IMS and IMS services being implemented and used across fixed and mobile networks.

Yair Golan Vice President, Marketing and Business Development VocalTec

Mr. Golan joined VocalTec in November 2005. In 2003 he joined Tdsoft and served as the manager of its European office, and in 2006 he joined VocalTec's management. Prior to joining Tdsoft, Mr. Golan was vice president of business development for TVGate, the interactive TV division of Comverse Ltd. Before joining the telecom industry, he served in various management and consulting positions at the Israel prime minister's office. Mr. Golan has an M.B.A. from École Supérieure de Gestion in Paris, France.

Rami Amit Chief Technology Officer VocalTec

Mr. Amit joined VocalTec in 1993 as its first employee and has been with the company since the infancy of the VoIP industry. He held several key positions at VocalTec throughout the years, including vice president of product management, and previously led VocalTec's Web-enabled call center solutions development, which was spun out of VocalTec in May 2001 as a private start-up company called Surf&Call Solutions Ltd.

John Evans Distinguished Engineer Cisco Systems

Mr. Evans focuses on IP/MPLS technologies, traffic engineering and management, and QoS. His current areas of focus include advanced QoS for broadband and associated work in the DSL Forum and admission control and corresponding work in the MSF. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Evans worked on the design and development of large-scale networks for service providers, the financial community, and the military.

Jason Lu Qiao Director of Marketing, Western Europe ZTE Corporation

Mr. Lu Qiao has more than 12 years of experience in the communications industry. He started his career in Lucent Bell-Labs before joining ZTE Corporation in 2003. Mr. Lu Qiao has experience in needs analysis for commercial products and has worked as a senior system engineer for R&D on products such as IP routers, GPRS BSC, CDMA IOS MSC, and BSC, which have been in commercial use already. He also participated in ADSL chipset development based on the T1.413 protocol.

Jurrie van den Breekel Technical Marketing Manager Spirent Communications

Mr. van den Breekel is responsible for the market development of Spirent Communications' performance analysis broadband division in the EMEA region. For the past three years, he has focused on developing and implementing Spirent's IMS and Mobile Packet Core strategies across the region. Mr. van den Breekel has held a variety of positions at Spirent's European and U.S. locations. Prior to joining Spirent in 2000, he spent several years at the Dutch-based system integrator TrueCom as product manager for telecom test systems.