Vonage, a leading provider of VoIP telephone services with more than two million subscribers, is implementing Sun FireTM T1000 and Sun FireTM T2000 servers running the SolarisTM 10 Operation System (Solaris OS) in its datacenters to reduce operating costs and improve profitability.

As new demands from consumers and innovations in products affect telecommunications infrastructure, it becomes more important to have reliable and cost-effective hardware such as the NetraTM X4200 M2 server. A new white paper provides a detailed look at the server's architecture.

OEMs add value to telecommunications hardware that differentiates each OEM from others. Since the base hardware can oftentimes not be the differentiation point, Sun and members of the Telecommunications Platform Initiative have created the Sun Open Telecommunications Platform, a Carrier Grade solution for Network Equipment Provider (NEP) application development, deployment and hosting that leverages commercial off-the-shelf components.

The Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite consists of a unified development environment, a lightweight runtime environment and virtualization that is based on Hypervisor and Logical Domains (LDOMs). It provides accelerated development and reduced costs via a unified development platform that supports open ANSI C programming.

New features for the Sun JavaTM System Content Delivery Server ease management of new services such as wireless content. New customers adopting the Sun product include Telecom New Zealand and Telefonica Moviles de Argentina. They will run the system on the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS).