Converging Web and IMS services: stakes and solution proposals

Converging Web and Telco services is one of the most interesting and valuable challenge that both Web providers and Telco operators will be facing during the next few years. Indeed, recent evolutions like smartphones' enhanced web-browsing capabilities (e.g. IPhone) and the technical incursion of Web2.0 main actors in the Telco world (e.g. Android) points out that this convergence is necessary and unavoidable. As converging Web and Telco consists mainly on converging Web2.0 and IMS services, this paper will focus on this point. We will first provide an overview of the involved technologies and the convergence stakes. Thus we will present the different solutions that have been proposed so far and finally expose TEWCOP (stands for TElco and Web COnverging Protocol), our proposition, through a set of significant use cases.