Comments on: In an IP(IMS) world, the mobile device will drive convergence because services shift to the edge of the network – and devices are at the edge of the network .. http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/05/in_an_ipims_wor.html Wireless mobility - Innovation - Digital convergence - mobile web 2.0 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: OIM http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/05/in_an_ipims_wor.html/comment-page-1#comment-1036 OIM Fri, 04 May 2007 16:00:50 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2007/05/in_an_ipims_wor.html#comment-1036 I fully agree with Ed. And I would add that to keep client devices affordable the intelligence should still be put in the server. I fully agree with Ed. And I would add that to keep client devices affordable the intelligence should still be put in the server.

]]> By: edsalo http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/05/in_an_ipims_wor.html/comment-page-1#comment-1035 edsalo Thu, 03 May 2007 15:30:46 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2007/05/in_an_ipims_wor.html#comment-1035 Hi Ajit, I agree with you that services will be driven to the edge of the network. However in your post you forget that application servers are also at the edge of the network. Therefore it is also possible that services will continue their transition towards client-server architectures in which the intelligence is in the actual server and this server talks to standard, fairly dumb, client devices. In this case the devices are merely "browsers" of content that is processed by and sent out from the servers. The only reason to put intelligence in the device would be to work around QOS issues in the actual network and improve the user experience. Ed Hi Ajit,
I agree with you that services will be driven to the edge of the network. However in your post you forget that application servers are also at the edge of the network. Therefore it is also possible that services will continue their transition towards client-server architectures in which the intelligence is in the actual server and this server talks to standard, fairly dumb, client devices. In this case the devices are merely “browsers” of content that is processed by and sent out from the servers. The only reason to put intelligence in the device would be to work around QOS issues in the actual network and improve the user experience.
Ed

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