Sun recently unveiled the industry's only end-to-end computing platform for the delivery of next generation telecommunications services. Sun already provides one of the leading systems platforms for telecommunications application development and is one of the most popular telecom UNIX server platforms. Furthering its leadership in this market, Sun introduced a set of products, services and alliances to help telecom companies implement a Service Driven Network--a flexible, modular network designed to speed the creation and deployment of new services and to handle provisioning, management and billing in a way that will work with existing networks and protect legacy investments.

Announcements made at Sun's New Age of Telecommunications Forum in New York, include:

• A new business unit -- Network Systems -- chartered with developing products and programs for the unique business needs of telecom Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and Network Service Providers (NSPs)

• A fault-tolerant, NEBS-certified system (the Netra ft 1800 server), that provides greater than "five nines" availability (less than five minutes of both planned and unplanned downtime per year), and NEBS-certified storage arrays (the Netra st A1000/D1000 systems), all designed for telecom-critical applications like Emergency 911 and Calling Card Authentication

• The industry's first telecom-critical service offering to support an entire desktop and server product line, including Sun's Netra family of telecom systems

• Support by IBM, Bellcore and Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. for Sun's Java In Advanced Intelligent Networks (JAIN) initiative to develop Java-based open standards for Intelligent Network (IN) applications and services

• Alliances with best-of-breed application providers for telecom services like customer care and billing, provisioning, switch control, signal control processing, voice/fax over IP and virtual private networks

With these announcements, Sun becomes the only vendor who can provide customers with a single continuous computing environment, Solaris, that runs without alteration on products ranging from chips and boards for custom-built systems to workstations and low-end servers for application development to high-end enterprise and fault-tolerant telecom servers for business- and telecom-critical application deployment. Sun's goal is to help NEPs and NSPs increase revenues and differentiate themselves in the highly competitive $700 billion plus telecom market by delivering value-add services more quickly and less expensively. [...read more...]

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