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BEA Ships Standards-Based Platform for Policy Enforcement and Telecom Web Services

Posted on: Monday, 25 April 2005, 06:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems , a world leader in infrastructure software, today announced the general availability of the BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper(TM), a carrier-grade, standards-based network access management product designed to help communications service providers manage third party content and application providers building new services that access the networks.

BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper helps enable communications service providers to expose telecom capabilities such as call routing, text messaging, and billing systems to software developers so they can build innovative network services. This product is designed to help communications service providers improve quality of service (QoS), increase customer loyalty and more quickly launch new, innovative services

"As the telecommunications market is changing, so are the customer's requirements for services," said Elisabeth Rainge, Program Director at IDC. "But services can't be delivered without rules as to who can access networks and when. BEA Weblogic Network Gatekeeper enables greater levels of control of third party service provider's applications while not hindering the ability to provide value added services to the end user."

Policy enforcement, Telecom Web Services and third party partner relationship management capabilities are at the foundation of BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper. Policy enforcement capabilities provide policy controlled network interfaces that prioritize and route traffic flow in an intelligent and efficient way, helping protect the underlying networks from being overloaded or damaged. Telecom Web are a set of high-level, simple Web Services interfaces, which help enable external parties, enterprises, and the large community of software developers to create new applications and services. Leveraging Telecom Web Services, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper helps empower traditional Web Services developers to deliver compelling telecom-enabled applications such as messaging, calling, location-based services and billing. Third party partner relationship management capabilities are designed to manage third party partners who may access the network.

BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper Can Bring Important Benefits to Communications Service Providers, Developers and End User Customers

BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper is an important milestone in BEA's history in telecommunications and brings unique business and technology benefits for communications service providers. For communications service providers, the product provides a single point-of-entry into the network to define and enforce policies for accessing key network enablers such as user status, user location, short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), and can help them manage third party application and content providers by defining and enforcing policy-based Service Level Agreements (SLAs). For application developers, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper brings Web Services technology to the telecommunications network domain, helping provide new opportunities to profit from the growing demand for third party telecom applications. For end-user customers, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper facilitates the rapid availability of a wider variety, and higher quality of new services with more flexible pricing models.

Commented Wai Wong, executive vice president, products organization, BEA Systems: "As the telecommunications market continues to expand, communications services providers need to stay competitive by providing a broader portfolio of next-generation services. Reaching out to the broader community of Web and IT developers can help them source new content, applications, and services, and providing access to their networks to third-party application and content providers can facilitate this. BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, and its policy enforcement, partner relationship management and Telecom Web Services capabilities can help address these customer needs opportunities by helping to enable new business opportunities with a wider community of third party application and content providers."

BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper Expands BEA Reach in Telecommunications

The BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper is a key component of the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform(TM), the integrated, standards-based suite of products and technologies for the telecommunications industry announced in February 2005 [see related news release, "BEA Systems Expands Telecom Leadership with 'Project Da Vinci' and the Industry's First J2EE Application Server with Integrated SIP Support"]. Together with BEA WebLogic SIP Server(TM), an industry leading J2EE-based SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) application server -- the BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper makes up the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, aimed at helping communications service providers attract and retain customers while helping them to increase Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) by helping enable the rapid delivery of a wider array of innovative, converged, network services, such as IP telephony, conferencing, presence, instant messaging, push-to-talk, gaming, and other rich media communication services.

BEA has long been a leader in software for the global telecommunications industry. All of the Global 50 communications service providers run portions of their OSS (Operational Support Systems) business on BEA. Additionally, the BEA WebLogic Service Delivery Solution, one of five BEA Enterprise Solutions, is a specialized solution framework for the telecom industry designed to bring to market a single, standardized, and scalable framework to help rapidly develop, integrate and deploy new digital and data services that can be tied to operations support systems.

Pricing and Availability

The newest product in the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform-BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper is generally available today and additional next-generation network enabling service creation and delivery products are expected to be delivered later this year. For more information on pricing, contact your local BEA sales representative.

For additional information on the BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, please visit: http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/wlcom/gate keeper/

For additional information on the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit: http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/wlcom/

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 37 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at http://www.bea.com/.

NOTE: BEA, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA eLink, and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding: the availability, plans, completion, release, delivery, goals, development, expected features, expected benefits and competitive position of BEA's telecommunications initiative technologies and products, including the additional next-generation and other BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products, the BEA WebLogic SIP Server and the BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper (the "Telco Products and Technologies"). Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties BEA faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties or software errors related to the final development and release of any of the Telco Products and Technologies or related services; any technological or standards changes in the application infrastructure, telecommunications IT and network infrastructure and related markets which could make Telco Products and Technologies less competitive or require feature changes in these products, such as a change in SIP standards for which the BEA WebLogic SIP Server is designed; any slowdown in the adoption by businesses of Internet technologies or standards based infrastructure solutions, especially a slow-down in the adoption of VoIP networks and technologies by businesses and consumers; any unexpected difficulties in the integration into BEA's commercial products of new products based on acquired third-party technologies; the introduction by competitors of new products, standards or technologies that compete with the Telco Products and Technologies; and BEA's ability to continue to invest in the Telco Products and Technologies if market and business trends were to require a reprioritization of business and technological goals. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2004 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

For More Information:

http://www.bea.com/news

BEA Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Kristin Wahl of BEA Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8741, orkristin.wahl@bea.com

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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