IMS implementations and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) have yet to live up to their full promise or potential. One of the biggest roadblocks to success has been the difficulty in adapting applications to meet the requirements of these platforms. You’re frustrated, carriers and developers are frustrated and users have yet to realize the benefit of all of this hard work. So what's missing?

SCout, 4DK's Service Interoperability Platform, is a high-availability, telco-grade switching platform utilizing best-in-class technologies (ENEA, RadiSys and MontaVista). Simply put, it bridges the gap between developers and your service creation and delivery infrastructure. SCout recombines, connects and achieves interoperation of legacy applications with new services, without the hassle of one off-integrations or a myriad of gateways. SCout acts as a supercharged application switch: it routes data across different applications and adapts to the native application protocols thereby enabling application interoperability. It reduces complexity for your customers in their quest to create innovative services to drive their subscriber usage. SCout doesn’t replicate capabilities that exist in IMS and SDP, it leverages these capabilities to unlock their benefits for third-party developers and applications.