NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif., computer hardware and software giant,
announced the availability of a new suite of products and services to serve the telecommunications
industry.
“Moving to consolidate the telecommunications market on the Solaris operating environment and
the UltraSPARC systems, Sun [is unveiling] the industry’s only end-to-end computing platform for the delivery of next-
generation telecommunications services,” the company said.
“With today’s announcements, Sun
becomes the only vendor that can provide customers with a single, continuous computing environment that runs
without alteration on products ranging from chips and boards for custom-built systems to workstations and low-end
servers for application development (all the way) to high-end enterprise and fault-tolerant telecom servers for business-
critical and telecom-critical application deployment.”
Additionally, Sun announced IBM Corp., Bellcore and
Trillium Digital Systems Inc. have joined its “Java In Advanced Intelligent Networks” initiative.
JAIN
is a telecommunications industry framework, based on Sun’s Java Beans component architecture, designed to spur a
new wave of services blending Internet and intelligent network technologies. Sun said the goal is to drive convergence
between traditional voice networks and IP-based data networks and to allow carriers to provide the same telephony
services across different networks and delivery platforms.
