Tekelec (News - Alert) is reportedly expanding the HP-Tekelec Open IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution to include BEA WebLogic SIP Server, a converged Java EE-SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert))-IMS application server.

 

Based on HP ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture), the Open IMS solution can accelerate the deployment of multimedia services in an IMS environment.

 

The addition of BEA WebLogic SIP Server results in a high-performance, available and powerful service creation and execution environment for converged Internet-IMS communication and collaboration services.

 

Since the Open IMS solution also includes the Tekelec TekCore Session Manager (a call state control function (CSCF) platform), HP OpenCall home subscriber server (HSS), service enablers, multimedia applications, and integration with back-office and legacy systems, it enables the delivery of subscriber-centric services across wireless, wireline and broadband networks.

 

The BEA solution leverages many IMS service enablers running on top of the HP-Tekelec IMS infrastructure to provide a highly flexible, customizable and expandable services environment for Independent Software Vendors, Network Equipment Providers and System Integrators deploying revenue-generating voice, data and content services.

 

“The solution draws on the combined capabilities of highly respected companies, each widely recognized for communications technology and application infrastructure leadership,” said Ronald de Lange, president and general manager, Network Signaling Group, Tekelec in a statement to the press.

 

“We are ideally positioned to help organizations worldwide accelerate the rollout of innovative services by delivering a truly open, tested and pre-integrated IMS environment,” he added.

 

Steve Dietch, director of worldwide marketing, OpenCall Software, HP believes the addition of BEA significantly enhances the value of the open IMS solution that Tekelec and HP developed.

 

Dietch said that the joint solution provides a cohesive, integrated infrastructure and service environment, delivered as a whole with expansion and enhancement options provided to meet or fit the service providers’ needs.

 

The Open IMS solution is expected to be commercially available with operators in North America later this year and globally in 2008.

 

According to Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager of BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems (News - Alert), carriers today continue to face concerns about decreasing sources of traditional revenue, rising infrastructure costs and declining customer loyalty.

 

“To help address these challenges, the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family is designed to give carriers the ability to rapidly and cost-effectively implement innovative converged IT-telecom services,” he concluded.

 

 

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