VELASCO MELO, Ximena    CAICEDO RENDON, Óscar Mauricio. MIDDIS: A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR SOA-AND-IMS BASED SERVICES INTERACTION. []. , 20, 2, pp.65-85. ISSN 0124-8170.

The current trend in telecommunications is oriented to a search of a convergence of fixed and mobile networks, and therefore networks designed would be more complex. Also there are new challenges in the service networking and integration feld across multiple networks, technologies and business areas, which involve there is a need to interoperate the Information Technologies (IT) and Telecommunication services. Therefore to contribute by solving these challenges but given the current lack of a fully adequate converged telecommunications environment -both traditional and new services-, this paper presents a reference architecture to enable and deliver quickly new converged services to the IT and telecommunications worlds, through SOA-IMS-based services interaction. Implemented in a SLEE, the middleware essential feature is that IMS uses SOA to integrate its own software components with external components, and thus it is achieved the IMS and Web services facilities combination to present a rich set of both services.

: IT; IMS; SOA; middleware; SLEE.

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