OpenCloud launches first true carrier-grade open platform for IMS
March 20 2007, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge, UK, 20 March 2007 - OpenCloud Limited, the supplier of open-standards-based application servers for the deployment of next-generation convergent telecommunications services, today announced the launch of OpenCloud Rhino 1.4.5, the latest version of its JAIN SLEE* standard-compliant application server. Rhino 1.4.5’s carrier-grade platform is specifically designed to address the growing need for robust and manageable IMS services within the competitive telecoms market.
In a market estimated to be worth up to $5.1billion by 2009**, Rhino 1.4.5 enables operators, network equipment providers (NEPs) and ISVs to provide innovative new IMS services without compromising on quality of service. The open and horizontal next generation platform is the first within the industry to support the reliability, availability and scalability requirements of increasingly complex telecom services, allowing Tier-1 carriers to provide robust, continuously available IMS applications which preserve their brand and differentiate them from best-can-do service providers.
While the provision of IMS services has traditionally been hampered by unreliable delivery and difficulties around integration, OpenCloud’s Rhino 1.4.5 provides continuous availability, linear scalability, low latency and manageability to ensure that services can be brought to market with confidence. Rhino 1.4.5 provides continuity for SIP sessions even in the face of full node failures, and also supports the full range of Diameter protocols to ensure that services developed on Rhino can seamlessly interface with external systems for authentication, authorisation and accounting purposes.
David Long, VP of R&D at OpenCloud, explained: “As operators call for more fault-tolerance in IMS application servers, we have extended Rhino’s resilience characteristics to provide for SIP continuity. In a high performance open service environment, we believe that these enhancements will ensure that Rhino becomes the enabling platform of choice for IMS services.”
Third parties can download the OpenCloud Rhino 1.4.5 Software Development Kit (SDK) at no cost from http://www.opencloud.com/products/rhino-kit.html. The SDK and full Developers Workbench enable users to start developing innovative IMS services in a comprehensive communications environment directly on their PCs.
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Notes to editors:
*JAIN SLEE (Java application programming interfaces (APIs) for Integrated Networks Service Level and Execution Environment) is primarily designed to support the rapid development of robust telecommunications applications in Java. For more information, please visit: www.jainslee.org.
For more information on OpenCloud Rhino 1.4.5, please visit: http://www.opencloud.com/products/rhino-kit.html.
About OpenCloud
OpenCloud was formed in New Zealand in 2000 to create open standard software technology that would revolutionise the portability and interoperability of services in telecommunications specifically in the evolution to IP and 3G IMS. The company was founded on the vision that the use of Java in telecommunications would stimulate innovation, interoperability and simplicity in telecommunication systems. OpenCloud works with partners to deliver, integrate and support end-to-end solutions incorporating OpenCloud products to global network operators and service providers. OpenCloud has representatives in Cambridge, UK; Wellington, New Zealand; Madrid; Tokyo, and San Francisco. More information is available at www.opencloud.com.
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