Sun Builds Momentum in Telecom as 29 ISVs

Announce Plans to Port Applications to Solaris 10

 

Motorola, Lenovo lead list of global ISVs building next gen telecom systems

 

NEW ORLEANS, CTIA WIRELESS, Booth 1370 and 861 – March 14, 2005 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), demonstrating strong momentum in the telecommunications industry, today announced that 29 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have agreed to port a range of telecom applications to the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).  Solaris 10 will enable the 29 ISVs, which includes Motorola, Inc., Lenova and leading companies from around the globe, to deliver software and systems that will enable carriers to improve telecom network operations environments, reduce costs and implement new IP-based services.

 

“Telecom carriers and service providers continue to face the challenges of a hugely competitive market,” says NAME, TITLE, Sun Microsystems.  “To differentiate themselves, compete effectively for customers and high-quality content providers, and drive new revenue streams, they must quickly develop, deploy and deliver high value secure services across a converged market, while reducing operating costs. Sun’s innovative Solaris 10 Operating System addresses all these requirements, enabling delivery of the latest in telecom services such as support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and improvements to clustering to insure availability at peak loads.”

 

With today’s announcement, Sun Microsystems welcomes a diverse group of 29 software companies that will leverage the Solaris 10 Operating System to ensure delivery of next-generation telecom services.  Since Solaris 10 debuted in February, over 500 partners have joined Sun’s 10 Moves Ahead program for Solaris, and more than 800 ISV applications are being ported to Solaris 10.  The ISVs represent telecom solutions that include: VoIP, multimedia VPN, web-based collaboration, business operation support systems (BOSS), customer relationship management (CRM), voice recognition, and more.

 

“Motorola has benefited tremendously from Solaris 10 new performance, telco grade availability and scalability,” said xx at Motorola, Inc. “As a global provider of seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks, Motorola requires a network infrastructure that is second to none in the key areas of performance, availability, security and administration management.  We get that with Solaris 10, and that’s why we plan to qualify xx, xxx, xxx product lines on the Solaris 10 platform.”

 

At CTIA Wireless 2005, Sun announced partnership agreements with 29 telecom ISVs for porting their applications to Solaris 10.  They include:

Appium. AsiaInfo, BOCO, Cntomorrow, DigitalChina, Hurray, Infozech, Lenovo, Longshine, Metarnet, Motorola, Mpathix,

Neusoft, Poson, Pronto Networks, Runway, Shanghai Ideal,  Sleepycat Software, Sures, Syndesis,TransNexus, Ulticom, Veraz Networks, VoiceGenie, Wayout, Xbell, ZCXC, Zhongyin-Unihub, Zznode