IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in
high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT
environments, in response to market demand, announced today expanded
Artix(TM) capabilities to support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
adoption in the telecommunications industry. Artix, the company's
extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), through its industry-leading
support of the standards, transports and protocols found throughout
the typical telecommunications IT and network infrastructure, provides
key integration technology required for the telecommunications
industry to take advantage of SOA to drive new business initiatives.
"Success for telecommunications carriers in today's highly competitive market can be directly tied to the ability of their IT systems to support new ways of doing business and new ways of interacting with their customers," said Sanjay Mewada, Vice President, Telecom Group Consulting and Research, Yankee Group. "More and more carriers are turning to SOA as a way to introduce greater flexibility to installed systems, and are looking for technologies that support both the existing and emerging standards driving the industry to help them reach their SOA goals."
Artix features a highly dynamic, configurable and extensible plug-in architecture that specifically meets the SOA infrastructure requirements of the telecommunications industry in the following ways:
-- Broad support for industry standards:
From CORBA to emerging standards such as Parlay and Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI), Artix natively supports the key standards prevalent in carrier environments. Additionally, Artix can be easily extended to support new standards as they gain acceptance and use in the industry.
-- Broad platform and protocol support:
Artix embraces the diversity found in most carrier environments and can be deployed in a distributed manner across multiple hardware and software platforms, including mainframes, .NET and Java to name only a few. Artix also supports the numerous messaging transports, such as IIOP, JMS and MQSeries used in carriers' IT infrastructure.
-- Enterprise Qualities of Service:
Telecommunications carriers' environments must be highly reliable and scalable. Artix supports and extends the enterprise qualities of services, including high availability and fault tolerance, security, and management that ensure the greatest level of uptime possible for these mission-critical systems.
"Heterogeneity is something we face everyday in our customers' IT environments," said Phil Healy, Head of Network Intelligence Engineering at Marconi. "Carriers are beginning to see the value of SOA as a means to derive new value from their installed systems and applications. Existing standards such as CORBA, and emerging standards such as MTOSI and Parlay, help ensure that existing systems can drive new ways of generating revenue. Through support of these important standards, we're confident that IONA's Artix can help us best meet the needs of our customers as they incrementally adopt SOA in their enterprises."
Intensified competition in the worldwide telecommunications industry is driving carriers to introduce new, revenue-enhancing services that not only support growth and retention in their customer base, but also increase average revenue per user (ARPU). Many carriers are turning to value-added services delivered via broadband or wireless or offering newly bundled services. Artix has already proven that it can support these initiatives and effectively extend existing standards such as CORBA to integrate and extend the legacy BSS/OSS and network management systems that have been deployed over the course of many years.
"Telecommunications carriers have long embraced a best-of-breed approach when selecting and deploying the technology required to deliver services to their customers, which can lead to certain integration challenges," explained Francesco Caruso, Senior Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, Inc. "I see great value in the SOA integration technologies like ESB products. Support for established and emerging standards that drive our industry, specifically TMF's MTOSI and MTNM, will help ensure that telecom software products can be easily deployed in any carriers' IT environment."
The inherently complex nature of carriers' IT environments, combined with an architectural approach that has traditionally focused on point solutions as opposed to integration, have created IT infrastructures that do not possess the flexibility required to easily respond to rapidly changing business requirements. In response, carriers are looking to emerging standards, such as MTOSI and Parlay to enable the deployment of Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs).
"Telecommunications carriers are quickly coming to realize that a comprehensive Service Delivery Platform is the crucial foundation for efficiently deploying and offering integrated voice, data, video and mobile services today's customers are demanding," said Darrell Jordan-Smith, Vice President, Global Telecommunication, Sun Microsystems. "Artix offers compliance with standards such as Parlay and MTOSI. This promotes seamless integration of a carrier's SDP with the variety of technologies and products found in the BSS/OSS layer, helping to ensure the success of new service initiatives."
In a carrier's environment, an SDP provides a standards-based mediation layer that enables existing systems to support new initiatives without requiring re-architecting of existing mission-critical systems. Through its broad support of the standards, platforms and protocols found in a typical service provider environment, Artix allows carriers to expose existing applications as services that can then easily be woven into new business processes and applications supported by the SDP.
"For more than a decade, IONA has distinguished itself by providing powerful software used in the telecommunication market's most demanding, mission-critical environments," said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA. "With Artix, we applied our experience to deliver a differentiated approach to integration for the telecommunications industry. Any member of the telecommunications industry can achieve strategic advantage and business agility utilizing the SOA computing model enabled by IONA's award winning Artix."
To help illustrate the value of Artix to the telecommunications industry, IONA is participating in the TM Forum Catalyst Program "Any Network, One Interface" demonstration at the TeleManagement World Dallas event, November 7-10, 2005. IONA, along with several other vendors will showcase how MTOSI can benefit carriers as they look to offer converged services to their customers.
About IONA
For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.
IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.
IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.
"Success for telecommunications carriers in today's highly competitive market can be directly tied to the ability of their IT systems to support new ways of doing business and new ways of interacting with their customers," said Sanjay Mewada, Vice President, Telecom Group Consulting and Research, Yankee Group. "More and more carriers are turning to SOA as a way to introduce greater flexibility to installed systems, and are looking for technologies that support both the existing and emerging standards driving the industry to help them reach their SOA goals."
Artix features a highly dynamic, configurable and extensible plug-in architecture that specifically meets the SOA infrastructure requirements of the telecommunications industry in the following ways:
-- Broad support for industry standards:
From CORBA to emerging standards such as Parlay and Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI), Artix natively supports the key standards prevalent in carrier environments. Additionally, Artix can be easily extended to support new standards as they gain acceptance and use in the industry.
-- Broad platform and protocol support:
Artix embraces the diversity found in most carrier environments and can be deployed in a distributed manner across multiple hardware and software platforms, including mainframes, .NET and Java to name only a few. Artix also supports the numerous messaging transports, such as IIOP, JMS and MQSeries used in carriers' IT infrastructure.
-- Enterprise Qualities of Service:
Telecommunications carriers' environments must be highly reliable and scalable. Artix supports and extends the enterprise qualities of services, including high availability and fault tolerance, security, and management that ensure the greatest level of uptime possible for these mission-critical systems.
"Heterogeneity is something we face everyday in our customers' IT environments," said Phil Healy, Head of Network Intelligence Engineering at Marconi. "Carriers are beginning to see the value of SOA as a means to derive new value from their installed systems and applications. Existing standards such as CORBA, and emerging standards such as MTOSI and Parlay, help ensure that existing systems can drive new ways of generating revenue. Through support of these important standards, we're confident that IONA's Artix can help us best meet the needs of our customers as they incrementally adopt SOA in their enterprises."
Intensified competition in the worldwide telecommunications industry is driving carriers to introduce new, revenue-enhancing services that not only support growth and retention in their customer base, but also increase average revenue per user (ARPU). Many carriers are turning to value-added services delivered via broadband or wireless or offering newly bundled services. Artix has already proven that it can support these initiatives and effectively extend existing standards such as CORBA to integrate and extend the legacy BSS/OSS and network management systems that have been deployed over the course of many years.
"Telecommunications carriers have long embraced a best-of-breed approach when selecting and deploying the technology required to deliver services to their customers, which can lead to certain integration challenges," explained Francesco Caruso, Senior Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies, Inc. "I see great value in the SOA integration technologies like ESB products. Support for established and emerging standards that drive our industry, specifically TMF's MTOSI and MTNM, will help ensure that telecom software products can be easily deployed in any carriers' IT environment."
The inherently complex nature of carriers' IT environments, combined with an architectural approach that has traditionally focused on point solutions as opposed to integration, have created IT infrastructures that do not possess the flexibility required to easily respond to rapidly changing business requirements. In response, carriers are looking to emerging standards, such as MTOSI and Parlay to enable the deployment of Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs).
"Telecommunications carriers are quickly coming to realize that a comprehensive Service Delivery Platform is the crucial foundation for efficiently deploying and offering integrated voice, data, video and mobile services today's customers are demanding," said Darrell Jordan-Smith, Vice President, Global Telecommunication, Sun Microsystems. "Artix offers compliance with standards such as Parlay and MTOSI. This promotes seamless integration of a carrier's SDP with the variety of technologies and products found in the BSS/OSS layer, helping to ensure the success of new service initiatives."
In a carrier's environment, an SDP provides a standards-based mediation layer that enables existing systems to support new initiatives without requiring re-architecting of existing mission-critical systems. Through its broad support of the standards, platforms and protocols found in a typical service provider environment, Artix allows carriers to expose existing applications as services that can then easily be woven into new business processes and applications supported by the SDP.
"For more than a decade, IONA has distinguished itself by providing powerful software used in the telecommunication market's most demanding, mission-critical environments," said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA. "With Artix, we applied our experience to deliver a differentiated approach to integration for the telecommunications industry. Any member of the telecommunications industry can achieve strategic advantage and business agility utilizing the SOA computing model enabled by IONA's award winning Artix."
To help illustrate the value of Artix to the telecommunications industry, IONA is participating in the TM Forum Catalyst Program "Any Network, One Interface" demonstration at the TeleManagement World Dallas event, November 7-10, 2005. IONA, along with several other vendors will showcase how MTOSI can benefit carriers as they look to offer converged services to their customers.
About IONA
For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.
IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.
IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.