BEAS: BEA Systems Ships BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 to Help Accelerate Adoption of Converged IMS-NGN Services Layer

BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, today extended its leadership role at the Services Layer of next-generation telecom networks with the release of BEA WebLogic® SIP Server 3.0.

The converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server component of the BEA WebLogic® Communications Platform product family, BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 adds new capabilities designed to further enhance BEA’s position in the marketplace. New features include on-line and off-line charging support, geographical redundancy, hot application and platform upgrade capability, IPv6 and SCTP support, a plug-able Profile API, full Diameter base protocol access and complete Java EE1.4 compliance. BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 is designed to meet the needs of network operators committed to deploying a feature-rich and cost-effective services layer for next-generation networks (NGN)

“The number one concern of telecom network operators is increasing the top-line and generating new revenue streams,” said Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems. “In a competitive landscape where they must innovate and deliver, they need a powerful IMS service creation, composition and execution platform to rapidly create and launch competitive services. With the release of BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0, BEA continues to deliver on its promise of providing these network operators with powerful innovation capabilities at the IMS-NGN service middleware level.”

New Features in BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 Designed to Address High Availability, Performance and Extensibility

BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 is a full-featured, standards compliant IMS application server that is designed to offer network operators and application developers unparalleled support for Java EE 1.4, Java SE 5, and Web services standards, as well as seamless integration with both SOA and IMS environments.

The new features in BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 are designed to address three key areas: high availability and performance, increased extensibility, and powerful container capabilities.

• High Availability and Performance – Geographically redundant deployments using tunable SIP session replication, a multi-tiered, massively scalable cluster architecture, hot upgradeable platform and applications, TCP connection pooling, SIP header compact form, and zero-latency state caching.

• Increased Extensibility – Plug-able Profile API for custom profile providers, Diameter base protocol API for development of new Diameter applications

• Powerful Container Capabilities – Java EE 1.4, 3GPP compliant on-line/off-line charging (Ro/Rf), IPv6, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), Tel URLs, Globally Routeable User Agent URIs (GRUU)

The new features in BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 are designed to help network operators increase revenues, improve customer satisfaction, and maintain the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO) to implement new IMS-NGN services.

• Improved Customer Satisfaction – High availability and performance for converged SOA-IMS services can help minimize dropped sessions, and maximize uptime for new services.

• Increased Revenue Opportunities – Operators can realize increased revenue potential through the delivery of innovative new SIP-IMS applications, using new container capabilities such as native access to telephone numbers and SCTP, Diameter Ro/Rf applications, GRUU, as well as add custom capabilities thru.

• Lower TCO for IMS-NGN – BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 is designed to help enable lower total cost of ownership by providing a single application container architecture for the IMS-NGN Services Layer, in lieu of a costly, multi-container architectures for the same level of container capabilities.

In addition to these new features, BEA WebLogic SIP Server customers can benefit from a market-leading ecosystem of applications, completers and partners.

Pricing and Availability

BEA WebLogic SIP Server 3.0 is generally available today, December 13, 2006. For more information on BEA WebLogic SIP Server, please visit http://bea.com/sip , or for more information about the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit http://www.bea.com/wlcom

The BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family, including BEA WebLogic SIP Server, is a key component of the BEA SOA 360o platform. Announced in September at BEAWorld 2006 in San Francisco, the BEA SOA 360o platform is designed to deliver the industry’s most unified SOA platform and spans all three of BEA’s product families, AquaLogic®, WebLogic®, Tuxedo and the company’s newly unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA Workspace 360o. (See Sept. 19, 2006, press release titled “BEA Announces SOA 360o; Industry’s most unified SOA Platform to transform and optimize business.”)