CANNES, France—IBM Corp. unveiled its Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE), an open-standards-based framework that telecommunications service providers can use to introduce new voice, text and Internet-based services to customers faster, easier and at a lower cost.
Following the release of IBM’s SPDE, Far EasTone Communications of Taiwan announced the launch of its Common Service Platform. CSP, which is based on IBM’s new architecture, is a GSM service platform that allows mobile e-business and offers customers next-generation data services across almost any network from almost any device.
IBM and Ericsson also announced this week at the PartnerWorld conference in San Francisco that they will link IBM’s Development Center for Telecom and e-Business with Ericsson’s Mobility World Center to help developers test and deploy mobile application.
