Overview

Carriers and service providers are accelerating the deployment of differentiated, high-value, secure next generation services across a converged network. It's a big move, but it brings down the cost of operations, reduce complexity, protects your IT infrastructure, and leaves plenty of room to grow. To help you deliver packet based and wireless infrastructure solutions as fast and securely as possible, the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) has been designed with the most advanced, real-time, high availability and high security features available in any OS today.

Why Solaris 10?

The Solaris 10 OS offers a number of built-in features that makes it the perfect platform for developing and deploying next generation carrier-grade services. These include:

• Solaris Containers: With Solaris 10, you safely host—on a single system—multiple applications or services that are completely isolated from each other. This allows you to define and meet telco-stringent service levels by dynamically controlling application and resource priorities.
• Predictive Self Healing: Solaris 10 can detect failing system components—including CPUs, memory, and I/O—and take them offline without requiring your services to go offline as well. In addition, the Predictive Self Healing facility immediately detects failed services and can restart them automatically with no user intervention, helping you meet or exceed the industry benchmark of "five nines".
• Platform choice: Deploy your services on a broad range of platforms including: SPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon. This also includes support for Certified NEBS level 3 hardware and ATCA platforms.
• Networking: In kernel support for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and bundled Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server elements make Solaris 10 an ideal development and deployment platform for VoIP and other telephony applications.
• Optimized Network Stack: The Solaris 10 TCP/IP stack has been optimized to provide the fastest possible transfer rates across your network. It also scales linearly as processing power is added. With IP-based services becoming dominant in the telecom market, higher performance improves customer satisfaction and enables next-generation services on a carrier-grade scale.
• IPv6 Support: It is a fundamental technology that enables Service Providers to create next-generation services that could support a virtually unlimited number of devices likely to populate global networks.
• Dynamic Tracing (DTrace): Your entire system—the hardware, OS, services, and associated application stack—can be safely analyzed and optimized in real time on production systems to help maximize performance for your service.
• Process Rights Management: Solaris 10 can be configured to limit the security risk to your services in the event of a security compromise. This greatly reduces the chances of key network applications, such as VoIP and unified messaging, being the target of hacking attempts.

What Customers are Saying

Continuous Computing

Continuous Computing is a global provider of High Availability platform solutions that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy converged communications.

"Continuous Computing has been a long-time Solaris partner. Solaris 10—with support for x86 architecture—will enhance Continuous Computing's approach to ATCA platform development due to its emphasis on carrier-grade OAM&P through advanced features such as Solaris containers, predictive self healing and process rights management."

Simon Waters, Vice President of Business Development for Continuous Computing's Platforms business unit

Veraz

"Sun is a leader in the carrier grade telecommunications infrastructure equipment due to its outstanding reputation for reliability," said R. Paul Singh, Vice President of Business Development at Veraz Networks.

"We are excited about the new unique features in Solaris 10 and look forward to validating them and making these available to our customers."

What Partners are Saying

Adax

Specializing in signaling infrastructure, Adax offers a complete set of solutions for today's evolving telecommunications networks. "Being a Sun partner has been critical to Adax's success in the telecommunications space," stated Barry Zuckerman, President, Adax. "Sun's hardware platforms and the robustness and reliability of Solaris has provided a carrier grade solution for ADAX customers. ADAX is committed to Solaris 10 and assuring ADAX products are fully supported on Solaris 10."

Pronto

"Solaris 10 provides the most robust and scalable service delivery software platform to Pronto's large scale carrier customers as they deploy Broadband Wireless Access networks using the Sun WiFi OSS platform". Raj Sundar, Pronto Networks VP of Engineering

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