The Netherland’s third largest provider of fixed-telephony services, Pretium Telecom, wanted to simplify its service-oriented architecture (SOA), to speed up the development of a new VoIP offering and to minimize costs. With the solution Pretium Telecom used at the time, only 20%–30% of that solution’s capabilities was used, leading to a multitude of unnecessary expenses and losses.

After evaluating possible solutions from Sun, Apache and JBoss, Pretium Telecom and its IT vendor Yenlo concluded that replacing the current SOA Suite with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server could provide the required functionality in a smaller, more agile, open-standards–based framework. In addition, the GlassFish ESB and Enterprise Server products offer a variety of support options from Sun, and having support services was crucial to Pretium Telecom. What finalized the company’s decision to choose the Sun solution was the proof of concept. In less than two weeks, Yenlo was able to rebuild the company’s entire stack.

“We are very excited about our new GlassFish ESB solution," commented Ruud de Greef, chief information officer at Pretium Telecom. "It provides a combination of open-source development tools, which makes it possible for us to quickly adapt to changes and increase profits. And the development environment’s ease of use is remarkable. Our developers’ productivity has increased about 40%–50%.”

Two notable differences the Sun solutions have brought to the telecom are the ease of clustering servers and establishing security. “Previously, it cost a lot of money to license clustered enterprise services, and setting up clusters was very difficult,” explained Joost Hofman, senior system engineer at Yenlo. “Today, we can cluster services in less than ten minutes.”

Adding security to applications and services also can be done in just seconds with the Sun products, noted Hoffman, adding, “This is a huge leap from the previous architecture."

Rapid resolution through the open-source community and Sun support services also has boosted the company's efficiency. “Sun provides very professional support services, and we have easy access to the engineers who can quickly answer our questions,” said de Greef.

"In the past, we were suspicious of open source for business deployments, but there has been a big change in open-source technologies over the last couple of years," de Greef realized. "Products like GlassFish ESB and GlassFish Enterprise Server deliver a professional and reliable environment to base your business processes on."

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