At this week's ITU Telecom World show in Hong Kong, Sun
Microsystems has announced a new global cooperation with Ericsson
and Nokia to help standardise telecoms platforms.
The initiative aims to unite the network equipment provider
(NEP) community and assist telecommunications operators and service
providers.
Peter Ewens, vice president for OEM business at Sun
Microsystems, said, "Leading OEMs like Nokia and Ericsson are
excited to see Sun step up and engage in a collaborative community
effort to relieve some of their platform development and
integration challenges."
Coming together as the Telecommunications Platform Initiative,
members are jointly developing the requirements for a standardised,
integrated telecommunications technology platform to simplify
design, development and market supply chains.
Torbjorn Lundahl, vice president of Ericsson Multimedia Systems,
said, "I am confident that this effort will lead to a much stronger
industry alignment and bring major benefits to our customers."
Jyrki Holmala, vice president for OSS Software at Nokia
Networks, said, "The Telecommunications Platform Initiative
recognises that technology integration is a common challenge for
all NEPs and shows our willingness to work together to find
cost-efficient and open standards-based solutions for the
industry."
By collaborating on a series of publicly available requirements
documents for the operations, administration and management layer
and service layer environments, members of the initiative will
provide the broader telecommunications industry with new
alternatives to improve time to service and time to market for new
technology.
Other suppliers and operators are set to become involved in the
initiative, said Sun.
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