Ericsson's Standard Services and IMS portfolio provides solutions for standard user services: both traditional services such as telephony, SMS and MMS, and IMS-based services such as presence, messaging and multimedia telephony.

All offerings are based on industry standards to optimize network infrastructure, provide interoperability and guarantee a consistent user experience, while helping operators to reduce their costs.

The portfolio is divided into four core areas:

• Mobile Softswitch Solution (MSS)
  With MSS network enhancements, operators can offer discernibly better speech quality, enjoy a smoother service evolution path and reduce core network operational expenses by up to 50 percent.
  
• Telephony Softswitch Solution(TSS)
  Telephony Softswitch Solution provides a proven migration of large-scale networks to IMS, and a commercially proven migration path from TDM to packet-switched networks, providing telecom-grade telephony services over IP.

• Ericsson IMS – IP Multimedia Subsystem
  IMS enables a consistent multimedia experience across multiple-access technologies, user devices and geographic locations that can be adapted to the individual requirements of business or private users.
  
• Core Site Solutions
  Core Site Solutions provide carrier-grade infrastructure for Central Office sites. Ericsson’s offering is designed for fast and easy installation, short lead times and simple logistics, and can be optimized for different node sizes.

Ericsson is the world's leading vendor of mobile-softswitch solutions with more than 290 contracts, including 170 mobile networks in full commercial service. It was the first vendor to commercially deploy this technology in March 2003, and has the widest installed base, covering 80 countries on all continents.

More than 60 operators worldwide have selected Ericsson Telephony Softswitch for their IP networks, with more than 40 in commercial service.

Ericsson is the undisputed market leader in IMS with a market share of 48 percent. Ericsson has signed 50 IMS-system contracts for commercial launch, and 22 of these contracts have been deployed and are running live commercial traffic.

Ericsson’s Standard Services and IMS offering helps operators to optimize their networks to meet today’s needs while preparing for the future.

Cost is also a key consideration, and one which Ericsson addresses through both improving efficiency and capacity, while enabling the introduction of new revenue-generating services.

Among other considerations: 

• Mobile Softswitch Solution can cut core-network operational expenses by up to 50 percent
  
• Telephony Softswitch Solution helps operators reduce total-network cost of ownership
  
• Ericsson IMS cost-effectively realizes the multimedia experienceCore Site Solutions offer cost-effective, carrier grade infrastructure for Central Office sites.

Ericsson is committed to standardization and has been actively involved in bodies such as ETSI and 3GPP.

This standardization ensures and supports efficient network evolution, enabling future success and ensures interoperability of services – a cornerstone of mass-market penetration and therefore profitable services offerings.