JAIN INITIATIVE FROM SUN ACCELERATES WITH NEW JAVA APIS FOR INTEGRATED NETWORKSJAIN INITIATIVE FROM SUN ACCELERATES WITH NEW JAVA APIS FOR INTEGRATED NETWORKSInitiative gains momentum in telecom industry, becomes building block for new Java Technology for Service Providers (JTSP)
ATLANTA, GA -- SUPERCOMM 2001 -- June 4, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced at SUPERCOMM today that the JAIN initiative is in high gear with more than 20 Java technology Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for integrated networks underway and several already complete. Sun also announced the first JAIN API deployments in telecommunications products and that 75-plus companies are committed to the industry initiative. In related news, the JAIN initiative is becoming a core component of the new Java Technology for Service Providers (JTSP) initiative announced by Sun today (see related release: "Sun and Service Provider Industry Drive Java Technology into Next-generation Networks with Java Technology for Service Providers (JTSP)"). The JAIN initiative is gaining new ground in helping telecommunications companies and service providers migrate to a single, integrated network architecture for faster creation and deployment of new services. JAIN APIs, based on Java technology, help to speed up the development of next-generation telecommunications products and services on the Java platform. The JAIN APIs are bringing service portability, convergence and secure network access to telephony and data networks. "The open JAIN APIs enable new players and healthy competition in the build-out of core components of the multi-billion dollar next-generation service infrastructure," said Ann Wettersten, vice president with Sun's Computer Systems group. "We're delighted to see service providers join the JAIN community by specifying JAIN APIs as the basis for next-generation solutions, as well as enthusiastic support from the 2.5 million-strong Java developer community." NEW APIS FOR INTEGRATED NETWORKSThe JAIN initiative continues to develop both protocol and application API specifications for areas vital to integrated networks: SS7 protocols, IP protocols, call control, service logic execution, service creation, management and provisioning. More than 20 JAIN APIs are currently in development. Further, the JAIN community recently formed two new Expert Groups to develop JAIN APIs for Presence and Availability Management and the Service Creation Environment. Teltier Technologies is the Specification Lead for the JAIN Presence and Availability Management API (JAIN PAM) which should help companies take advantage of some of the latest advances in wireless technology. The new API will allow communications systems to share authorized information about the identity, location and availability of subscribers with wireless devices. For example, the API could help create an application alerting avid shoppers to store sales -- via wireless devices -- when the subscriber is within close proximity to a favorite retail outlet. The presence capability determines where the wireless subscriber is located. The availability capability determines whether the subscriber is interested in receiving the sale information at that time and whether he/she would like to receive it by phone call, page or text message. Telcordia Technologies is the Specification Lead for the JAIN Service Creation Environment API (JAIN SCE). The new API will help support and simplify the creation of portable telecommunication services by defining the requirements for the environment in which new services are created. The group will also examine how XML technologies interplay with Java when defining next-generation applications. By integrating XML, Java technology, and JAIN APIs, service creation affects communications at virtually every level - from consumers using portal-based applications to ISPs and carriers building complex network services. The JAIN SCE API should help portals offer new communications services that tie conferencing, chat, email and voice together. It should also help ISPs and carriers rapidly create and deploy services where features such as micro billing, service plans, or quality are tightly integrated in the functional components. MOMENTUM BUILDS WITH FIRST TELECOM PRODUCTS INCORPORATING JAIN APISJAIN APIs are rapidly moving from the specification development stage to widespread industry adoption as service providers begin to mandate JAIN API compliance from vendors. Several companies are already using JAIN APIs in their products. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has developed NGN-CA, a control agent for next-generation networks, which supports the JAIN Call Control (JCC) open API and complies with global open standards. NTT announced last week the world's first successful application porting on JCC using the NGN-CAs which have different architectures provided by NEC and Fujitsu/Lucent. "The JAIN APIs are helping to remove the challenges we typically face with porting and integrating applications," said Satoshi Shiraishi, Senior Research Engineer and Supervisor/Group Leader with NTT. "The JAIN APIs define the Java technology standard for network services on all platforms. With these valuable interfaces, we are reducing migration costs, simplifying porting efforts and facilitating cross-platform integration." dynamicsoft Inc., today also unveiled the industry's first commercially available session initiation protocol (SIP) product to support the JAIN SIP API. SIP is an Internet-based signaling standard for voice, video and data over IP-based networks. The dynamicsoft SIP User Agent is the starting point for building products that can send and receive converged communications over next-generation IP-based networks. It can be used to integrate SIP capabilities into end-user devices such as PCs and softphones as well as server applications such as softswitches and feature servers. Ulticom, Inc. is offering the first JAIN-certified product, Signalware JTCAP, an SS7 application programming interface conformant with the JAIN TCAP API specification standards established through the Java Community Process. TCAP enables a range of transaction-based applications such as "800" Number Translation, Calling Name Delivery and Local Number Portability. Samsung Electronics is using Ulticom's Signalware JTCAP API to develop a third-generation wireless service control point. By writing to the JAIN interface, Samsung's next generation product maintains flexibility for service creation of voice, data and multimedia services. The JAIN community consists of more than 75 corporate members including BT, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Motorola, Nortel, NTT, Siemens, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. and Ulticom, Inc. as well as most softswitch and next-generation independent software vendors in the industry. JAIN COMMUNITY AT SUPERCOMM AND JAVAONE CONFERENCEAt the JavaOne conference and SUPERCOMM this week, several companies will be demonstrating products and technologies incorporating JAIN APIs. These companies include: AePONA, dynamicsoft, Fujitsu, Hughes Software Systems, Incomit, Lucent, NEC, NTT, Oki Network Technologies and Ulticom, Inc. ABOUT THE JAIN INITIATIVELaunched by Sun in 1998, the JAIN initiative extends the Java platform to the service provider industry. The initiative addresses the needs of next-generation telecom networks by developing a set of industry-defined APIs for Integrated Networks. Network services today are typically built using proprietary interfaces that inhibit the marketplace for new services. Members of the JAIN community have joined forces to define open APIs based on Sun's Java platform, thus allowing service providers to rapidly create and deploy new flexible, revenue-generating services. The development of JAIN specifications is spearheaded simultaneously in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To date, more than 75 of the communication industry's leading hardware providers, network equipment providers, protocol providers and service providers have joined the JAIN initiative. The JAIN community also coordinates with other broad-based industry groups like ETSI, the Parlay Group and 3GPP to provide quality industry-supported community extensions for the Java platform. Information about the JAIN program can be found at http://java.sun.com/products/jain. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. With $19.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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