IBM Offers its Integrated Platform for Telecommunications
(IP-T)with Fujitsu Siemens Computers SAFE4CS Software
New solution helps telecommunications equipment manufacturers
cut development costs and shorten time to market
Chicago, Illinois and Munich, June 06, 2005 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers today announced the signing of a
global agreement with IBM that allows the two companies to work
together to provide cost-effective server and middleware solutions
for telecommunications equipment manufacturers.
The agreement enables IBM to offer the Fujitsu Siemens
Computers SAFE4CS carrier grade, high-availability software suite
as a key component of the IBM Integrated Platform for
Telecommunications (IP-T). The resulting solution gives IBM a
complete, fully-integrated telecommunications infrastructure
offering capable of helping the telecommunications equipment
manufacturers deliver cost-effective, standards based products to
their customers the service providers. The agreement allows Fujitsu
Siemens Computers to extend the reach of a powerful middleware
platform that is already installed in hundreds of customer
telecommunication networks around the world.
“The combined solution offers equipment manufacturers a
complete service platform,” said Jens Peter Seick, VP of
Enterprise Products Unix at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “Our
collaboration will allow telecom application developers to save
development costs, build stable, reliable products quickly, and
enable their customers to build profitable service businesses in
telco, electronic or mobile commerce, and financial markets. We are
delighted that IBM chose SAFE4CS™ which enables IBM to offer
a fully-integrated and competitive carrier grade solution. With
this solution telecom equipment manufacturers will be able to
enhance their application development environments and redeploy
their increasingly limited development budgets to add value to
their application portfolio."
The IBM eServer Integrated Platform for Telecommunications
features IBM eServer BladeCenter T systems, and is designed to help
network equipment providers and solution providers reduce the time
and costs associated with developing and deploying next generation
network applications for critical workloads, such as mobile network
infrastructures and soft switches for voice over IP.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers SAFE4CS (Service Availability Forum
Environment 4 Continuous Services) is the first SAF compliant
middleware and development tool. It provides both a development and
an operating interface for developing common, standardized, carrier
grade telecom infrastructures for any application and on common
operating systems and servers. SAFE4CS provides the developer with
modular, pre-built services and standards compliant APIs to assist
in building telecom application solutions quickly. SAFE4CS also
transparently interfaces telecom applications with standard
operating systems and hardware architectures, allowing the customer
to select the current, best price performance at the lowest cost.
SAFE4CS is compliant with the emerging standard specifications of
the Service Availability Forum for open high-availability
middleware interfaces. This standards compliant platform is based
on field-proven technology offered by Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
"There is a growing demand from telecom equipment
manufacturers for a fully-integrated, carrier grade solution based
on open industry standards, and our solution meets these growing
market requirements," said Jim Pertzborn, vice president of
IBM eServer Telecommunications Solutions, Systems and Technology
Group. "We are delighted to work with leading companies like
Fujitsu Siemens Computers to provide an integrated, standards-based
platform for both application development and highly-available
telecom operations. It is a practical, affordable solution
available to our customers today."
As a development platform, the combined Fujitsu Siemens
Computers SAFE4CS and BladeCenter T solution will help simplify
application development and lower development costs for equipment
manufacturers. Developers can avoid the high costs of developing
and supporting proprietary, high-maintenance vertical technology
stacks for each application that includes proprietary middleware,
high-availability software, operating systems and hardware
platforms. This allows equipment manufacturers to focus on
enhancing core competencies in telecom application development for
network service providers.
IBM’s Blade Center T and Fujitsu Siemens Computers
SAFE4CS offer published application and hardware interfaces based
on industry standard specifications from the SAForum (Service
Availability Forum). These application programming and operating
environment interfaces provide the developer with easy to use
access to pre-built services and features for easy porting and
integration. The combined platform offers telecom equipment
manufacturers and their customers, the service providers and large
enterprises, these major benefits:
• Lower development costs with interfaces to reusable
standard components
• Shorter product development cycles for faster market
entry
• Option to offer lower market prices
• More efficient use of their development budgets
• Use of low cost, standard hardware platforms
SuperComm 2005 Demonstrations, McCormack Place, Chicago,
Illinois
Voice Over IP at booths 64045, 71022, 53015
Voice Over IP is the basis for many applications available on
the market today and a growing number in the years to come.
Today's SuperComm demonstration at booth 64045 of IBM’s
Integrated Platform for Telecommunications supports a Voice Over IP
application service based on SAFE4CS from Fujitsu Siemens Computers
and IBM’s clustered Blade Center T server nodes. This
demonstration shows how carriers can build a Voice Over IP solution
quickly and cost effectively without compromising the stringent
availability and quality requirements present in traditional
telephony services. This demonstration will show continuous service
to users despite simulated failures of the application, networks or
servers. It will provide a seamless transition of users from failed
services to newly activated services and the context of every user
session in progress will be saved and resumed with no loss in user
session processing, data or response time. This automated solution
ensures that no operator intervention will be required. IBM’s
Integrated Platform for Telecommunications, featuring Fujitsu
Siemens Computers SAFE4CS software, ensures telecom equipment
manufacturers a robust, standards-based application development and
operating platform for the efficient development of their carrier
grade applications.
Advanced Televoting at booths 53015, 71022
Fujitsu Siemens will showcase in booth 53105 another
end-to-end standards-based application deploying SAFE4CS software
to support a telecom application service called Advanced TeleVoting
(ATV). This service allows a caller to answer questions through the
phone key-pad. Running on a SAFE4CS based platform, the ATV service
can support thousands of calls in parallel, even while a hardware
or software failure is handled.
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider
with a responsible strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and
Business Critical Computing products, services and solutions. With
a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from
handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure
solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a strong presence in all
key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging
the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint
shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet
the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium
enterprises and private users.
For further information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers,
please visit:
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
About the Service Availability Forum™
The Service Availability™ Forum is a consortium of
industry-leading communications and computing companies working
together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial
off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability
network infrastructure products, systems and services. To achieve
this goal, the Service Availability Forum develops and publishes
high availability and management software interface specifications
while promoting and facilitating their adoption by industry.
Service Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to
help frame and implement the Service Availability solution. For
more information about the Service Availability Forum, visit
www.saforum.org
IBM’s eserver BladeCenter and Blade Center T are
trademarks of IBM Corporation. Fujitsu Siemens Computers SAFE4CS is
a trademark of Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Director Communications
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 3222 4460
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Fax: +49 (0) 89 3222 4466
amy.flecher@fujitsu-siemens.com
Ulrike G. Droeschel
Senior PR Manager
Tel.: + 49 (0) 89 3222 4454
Mobile:+ 49 (0) 172 980 1979
Fax: + 49 (0) 89 3222 329 4454
ulrike.droeschel@fujitsu-siemens.com
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