New mobile communication technologies are evolving so quickly that new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. To succeed as a service provider, you now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.

New mobile communication technologies are evolving so quickly that new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency is at the top of the corporate agenda. To succeed as a service provider, you now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets.

These trends combine to create a dilemma for an industry whose stock in trade at one time was its stable, reliable, unchanging network: To compete, your company now has to preserve its investments in legacy networks, continue to serve customers using traditional services, and at the same time transition smoothly to a next-generation network embedding a flexible IP media server to keep up with demand and competition.