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Sun in the Communications Industry



When everyone is connected, anything is possible.

Communications
The world has joined the network to such extent that the two are now synonymous - the network is the world. The statistics speak for themselves:
  • More than 1 billion people connected across every continent
  • Billions of devices from sensors and cell phones to supercomputers
  • And petabytes of data in the form of e-mail streaming media, blogging, text messaging, package tracking, and more join the network on a weekly basis.

Today's Internet represents a market opportunity that dwarfs, by orders of magnitude, anything that's come before. With more than 70 percent of the world’s populations still not connected, these statistics are likely to continue to increase for generations. At Sun, we strive to connect everything and everyone, linking people to technology and the world.

When everyone is connected, anything is possible.

Market Segments

» Converged Digital Media
» Integrated OSS/BSS Systems
» Next Generation Service Delivery

Latest Customer Success

COLT Telecom Group Limited Leveraging Sun to Deliver New Utility Services That Reduce Operational Costs by Up to 33%
Focusing on the needs of business customers and striving to simplify the environment, this telecommunications services provider combined Solaris Cluster technology, Sun Fire servers, the Solaris 10 Operating System and third-party usage tracking software to create new pay-as-you-go utility services offerings that can save customers up to 33 percent on operational costs.

C.A. Mobile, Ltd. Is getting Twice the Capacity & Lower Overhead Costs with Sun Fire CoolThreads Servers & Solaris 10 Operating System
A Japanese mobile media company building a new datacenter to accommodate future growth, switched from commodity Intel-based servers to a high-performance architecture based on multi-threaded, energy-efficient Sun Fire servers using CoolThreads technology. Its overhead costs are expected to drop up to 30 percent, while its capacity has nearly doubled—all with much lower maintenance needs.

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Sun Partners in Communications

Coppereye
Secure Data Retrieval
Address data retention and retrieval needs with this secure, cost-effective, and energy efficient solution. » Solution Sheet (PDF)
 
Greenplum
Data Warehousing
Effectively manage and mine existing data to better understand and serve customers, and improve operational efficiencies.
 
Cloudmark
Messaging Security
Minimize the impact of email, SMS and MMS abuse with highly-accurate, comprehensive protection against inbound and outbound spam, phishing and viruses.
 
 

Spotlight

Industry Updates from Sun
Read about product news, customer successes and other views of Sun in the communications and media industries.(PDF)
 
Sun Solutions for Communications
Take a look at some of the Sun and partner solutions for the communications industry.
 
Read about Sun's new vision of Telconomics
Market dynamics and potential responses, and the potential new "destinations" for an incumbent operator.
 

News

Sun Microsystems And SBTVD Forum To Develop Open-Source Java Solution For Brazil's Digital TV System
Milestone agreement delivers low cost alternative for TV conversion to unconnected populations in emerging economies.
 
Sun Introduces New Open Archive Solutions to Better Solve Explosive Data Growth Challenges for Customers
New Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Storage Library delivers up to 50% reduction in space and up to 10x energy costs savings versus comparable storage solutions.
 
Sun Introduces The Industry's First Carrier-Grade, 64-Thread Rackmount Server
Sun Netra T5220 Server with the UltraSPARC T2 processor delivers 64 virtual systems in a 2U server.
 
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Events

NXTcomm 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada
Scott McNealy delivered a keynote address at NXTcomm in Las Vegas, Sun's booth in the Green Pavilion displayed demonstrations of new Sun and partner solutions, and a demonstration of the Sun Modular Datacenter took place on the show floor.
 
 

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