SUN AND SERVICE PROVIDER INDUSTRY DRIVE JAVA TECHNOLOGY INTO NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKSSUN AND SERVICE PROVIDER INDUSTRY DRIVE JAVA TECHNOLOGY INTO NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKSExpanded Effort to Accelerate Innovation and Build on Success of JAIN and OSS Through Java Initiatives
ATLANTA and SAN FRANCISCO -- June 4, 2001 -- At the JavaOne Developers Conference and SUPERCOMM 2001, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and industry leaders including, Cygent, dynamicsoft, Fujitsu, Motorola, NEC, Nortel, NTT, Telcordia, Ubiquity and Ulticom, today endorsed the submission of a Java Specification Request (JSR) proposal to define an architectural overview and developer's guide for Java technology solutions for service provider (SP) and telecom networks. The group of industry experts will build on the momentum of APIs developed by the JAIN Initiative and the OSS (Operations Support Systems) through Java Initiative. The group will help identify future SP-oriented Java APIs to help enable capabilities such as service level agreements, context & location services, media gateways and network management for new and emerging end-to-end network architectures. Sun also is initiating a third-party auditing program for compatibility testing of completed APIs. The new Java Technology for Service Providers (JTSP) architecture is anchored in APIs created by the JAIN Initiative for next-generation telecom networks and the OSS through Java Initiative for back office service provider operations such as billing and provisioning. The expanded use of Java APIs will help to enhance functionality, reduce implementation time, and provide investment protection in a market that formerly relied on proprietary, closed technologies and solutions. "Just as Java technology has delivered open, portable and scalable enterprise solutions in the datacenter, today it is enabling enhanced solutions and services for service provider networks," said Ann Wettersten, vice president with Sun's Computer Systems group. "With the JTSP architecture, Sun and the industry expand their commitment to driving standards-based technologies for service provider networks and services, opening up new opportunities for software vendors, network equipment providers, system integrators and carriers." "The commercial pressures facing telecoms and service providers are driving them to seek ways of enabling more rapid, more dynamic delivery of new services, and open software architectures and APIs are the foundation for these new initiatives," says Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director for e-infrastructure at Ovum. "Java technology's underlying qualities - security, openness, network-awareness - combined with its broad adoption across the Internet community - makes it a serious contender in the emerging market for these new architectures." NEW COMPATIBILITY TESTING PROMOTES CONFIDENCE AMONG SPsSpecifications for Java interfaces for key functionalities are led by a broad variety of industry members. These diverse efforts increase innovation and accelerate delivery of the specifications. The new third-party compatibility testing and auditing program, available later this year, will help ensure that vendors' solutions conform to API specifications and help enable cross-vendor compatibility. The goal is to provide customers with an unbiased validation of product compliance and interoperability and to accelerate market adoption of services and products built using these standards-based APIs. Standardizing the APIs encourages an open developer playing field to facilitate enhanced telecom services and new opportunities for the 2.5 million developers using the Java programming language today. WIDESPREAD INDUSTRY ADOPTION OF JAVA TECHNOLOGY APIsIndustry leading telecom companies and SPs have been participating in the development, endorsement and adoption of Java APIs in carrier networks since 1998 with the JAIN Initiative. The JAIN initiative has developed a set of open Java APIs that focus on emerging network protocols and architectures driven by the convergence of traditional telecom networks with IP networks, such as APIs for call control and softswitch. Two new Expert Groups were recently formed to develop JAIN APIs for Presence and Availability Management (JAIN PAM) and the Service Creation Environment (JAIN SCE). The JAIN PAM API is designed to help companies take advantage of some of the latest advances in wireless technology, such as identity and location services. The new JAIN SCE API is designed to help support and simplify the creation of portable telecommunication services, including the integration of XML technologies with Java. There are more than 20 JAIN APIs underway, and companies are now deploying Java APIs in telecom products. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced the first successful application porting on JAIN JCC using its newly developed control agent for next generation networks, which have different architectures provided by NEC and Fujitsu/Lucent. dynamicsoft Inc., today also unveiled the industry's first commercially available session initiation protocol (SIP) product, based on the JAIN SIP API. Samsung Electronics is also developing a third-generation wireless service control point using the JAIN TCAP API technology from Ulticom. (For more information on the above JAIN announcements, see related release: "JAIN Initiative From Sun Accelerates with New Java APIs for Integrated Networks") More recently, a new industry effort, the OSS through Java Initiative, announced its first Java technology APIs for Trouble Ticket, Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Activation applications for 3G wireless networks are now in public review. Java technology is fast becoming the end-to-end software platform of choice. Java technology scales from the end-user device with Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, through the network with the JAIN Initiative, to backoffice data centers supported by Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and the OSS through Java Initiative. Specification of a consistent JTSP architecture will accelerate delivery of Java technology to carriers, network equipment providers and SPs. 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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