BEA’s WebLogic Network Gatekeeper Opens Networks to Larger Community

BEA Systems Inc. at NXTcomm is unveiling Release 3.0 of its WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, the policy enforcement and Telecom Web Services platform component of the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform. New capabilities of note in this release include a more comprehensive set of Telecom Web Services, so more features and capabilities on service provider networks are exposed to third-party application developers; the ability to manage SLAs no matter where the data centers or customers reside; and integration with Java EE, IMS and Telecom Web Services, said Ken Lee, BEA’s director of worldwide product marketing for the WebLogic Communications Platform.

“The product is extending to a fuller set of Web services, so it’s easier for this product to sit across the existing networks, and the new and emerging networks, and provide connections between those new worlds,” added Chris King, senior director of worldwide telecommunications markets at BEA, which was recently ranked as the middleware marketshare leader (with 36 percent) by OSS Observer.

O2 UK is one of BEA’s publicly announced customers for the WebLogic Network Gatekeeper. The companies announced early last year that the service provider is using the solution to underpin its next-generation mobile Internet content delivery, including i-mode and O2 Active. i-mode is an easy way for mobile users to enjoy content from Internet sites they already know. To date, more than 100 well-known brands have developed official i-mode sites. These allow customers to do many of the things they typically use the Internet for today, such as banking, shopping, booking tickets or holidays. O2 Active focuses on entertainment and information services. Customers can stream news, sports, and music, play 3D interactive games, download ring-tones and receive wallpapers.

King said a key reason BEA has been able to grow in the middleware market, which is valued at $836 million this year and expected to grow to $1.8 billion in 2011, is because it has a rich set of partners. Several of those partners will be demonstrating their applications in BEA’s booth at NXTcomm. For example, an outfit called Ericpol has built out several IMS applications running on WebLogic SIP Server, said King. That includes a prepaid/postpaid charging platform and some enhanced video applications.

BEA www.bea.com
Ericpol http://www.ericpol.pl/

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