8
FEBRUARY, 2005
BEA goes
applications-specific
One thing
that the SOA and Web Services approach is bound to generate is the growth
in applications-specific solutions. Basically, if there is a market big
enough, some company will build a specific solution to fill the need and
save vast amounts of development time across a wide swathe of enterprises.
As an example, how about the telecoms business?
That is exactly
the market BEA Systems has targeted with the announcement of a new set
of products, formerly code-named Project Da Vinci, and now known as the
BEA WebLogic Communications Platform. This is an integrated, standards-based
suite of products and technologies developed to help telecommunications
companies deliver and manage converged voice, data, video and mobile services
such as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), email, calendaring, peer-to-peer
services, and a wide variety of digital content and video services over
wireless and wireline networks. The first part of this package, the WebLogic
SIP Server, is now available.
As well as
the WebLogic SIP Server with integrated Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
support for establishing a communication path between two or more entities,
the package also incorporates WebLogic Network Gatekeeper. This is currently
under development and is being designed to allow carriers to define, manage
and enforce access and quality of service (QoS) parameters for network
resources. www.bea.com/wlcom
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