Data traffic in telco networks grow much faster and correspond to an increasing part of profits in telco operators. Operator’s dependence on voice services only is quickly diminishing in favor of higher valued data services. As these operators leave their relative comfort zone of supplying voice services in monopoly or oligopoly constructs the need for agility increases. The search for the Holy Grail – that is the next killer application – is happening everywhere.

But what if there is no next one single killer application? What if the next killer is exposure of capabilities to be used in countless of use cases which no-one has thought of today? Or if it is the ability of quickly creating services supporting ever changing customer needs?

This paper is about how to enable and support agile IMS service composition on both the service layer, that is in low-latency call control type of contexts, and in the Service Delivery Platform, SDP, that is higher level course grained services.

What do we mean with Agile IMS Service Composition?
• Agile: Focus is Customer Collaboration and Responding To Change
• IMS: IP based network, with convergence in any dimension
• Service Composition: Being able to create a new service by the combination of development and/or existing services composing these together. With the use of the techniques presented here you will be able to:
• Quicker and with less risk try out new services much faster leading to increased profits from more services and more satisfied customer
• Increase the number of end-user services available from the basic services available in the SDP by combining services in endless ways.
• Lower cost through less development gained by re-use and delivering services regardless of underlying network.

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