Intervoice and BEA
Systems Deliver Innovative Telecommunications Solutions
for Global IMS Providers
Interoperability Testing with Huawei Validates Joint
Offering to Expand Subscriber Services Worldwide
BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise and
communications infrastructure software and Intervoice,
Inc., (NASDAQ: INTV), a world leader in converged voice
and information technology, today announced the
integration of Intervoice Media Exchange Enhanced
Services Platform and the BEA WebLogic® SIP
Server, a converged Java-IMS-SOA service creation and
delivery platform designed to promote adoption of IMS
(IP Multimedia Subsystem)-based communication services
around the world, including voicemail, voiceSMS and
videomail. Commercial acceptance of Intervoice and BEA
WebLogic SIP Server by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
("Huawei"), a premier global network equipment provider,
is designed to significantly advance network operator’s
efforts to better define their evolving IMS-NGN Services
Layer architecture. Huawei plans to distribute both BEA
and Intervoice solutions in their IMS infrastructure and
application offerings that they are providing to
carriers around the world.
"Intervoice and BEA have shown a level of dedication
not only to IMS but also to the communications
leadership that China is providing to the world, as well
as the region," said Ding Yun, president of Core
Networks, Huawei. "Huawei is facilitating comprehensive
cooperation to build an open IMS eco-system, for carrier
operators around the world that can deliver various
innovative services to their subscribers as quickly as
possible."
The joint BEA and Intervoice offering combined with the
successful interoperability testing with Huawei’s IMS
infrastructure technologies, represent a major milestone
in the two-year partnership between BEA and Intervoice.
The joint offering is designed to help facilitate global
delivery of IMS-based applications and lead the way for
other next- generation solutions. Multi-level
integration and interoperability of standards-based
components is a critical enabler of IMS, early adoption
of which was challenged by traditional "silo-ed"
approaches to service delivery. This is the problem that
Huawei, BEA and Intervoice have addressed.
"This year, carriers have seen dramatic increases in
subscriber demand for mobile media services, and have
turned to leaders like Huawei and innovators like BEA
and Intervoice for pioneeering technologies to help
these challenges," said Wai Wong, executive vice
president, products, BEA Systems. "BEA and Intervoice
have accelerated our delivery plans to accommodate these
dynamic market conditions, and we will roll out
additional offerings in the coming months."
"BEA, Intervoice and Huawei recognize IMS as a
landscape-altering architecture. In direct discussions
with our carrier customers, it became clear that what
they need is an open application environment that could
exploit the capabilities of next generation handsets,"
said Jim Milton, Chief Operating Officer, Intervoice.
"The availability of an open applications framework
platform such as Intervoice Media Exchange features
applications such as voicemail, voiceSMS and videomail
that can help accelerate adoption of IMS throughout the
world."
Intervoice and BEA share a commitment to delivering a
world class user experience, increasing productivity and
driving up Average Revenue per User (ARPU) with Network
customers as well as increasing productivity and
reducing costs in the customer contact center
environment. BEA and its BEA WebLogic®
Communications Platform product family feature
prominently in Intervoice’s Media Exchange offerings and
today’s announcement of the completion of the platform
interoperability test raises the two companies’ level of
commitment to the success of the partnership. BEA
WebLogic® SIP Server, the industry’s first
converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server, and a key
component of the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform is
the integration point for the interoperability of the
Intervoice Media Exchange and Home Zone platform.
BEA WebLogic SIP Server is a key component of the BEA
SOA 360º platform. Announced in Sept. at BEAWorld 2006
in San Francisco, the BEA SOA 360º platform is designed
to deliver the industry’s most unified SOA platform and
spans all three of BEA’s product families, AquaLogic,
WebLogic, Tuxedo® and the company’s newly
unveiled SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA
Workspace 360º. (See Sept. 19, 2006, press release
titled "BEA Announces SOA 360º; Industry’s most unified
SOA Platform to transform and optimize business.") For
more information about BEA WebLogic SIP Server, please
visit bea.com/sip, and the BEA WebLogic Communications
Platform, please visit
www.bea.com/wlcom.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is
a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software.
BEA’s SOA 360º platform is the industry’s most unified
SOA platform for business transformation and
optimization, in order to improve cost structures and
grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is
enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy™ can be
found at
bea.com.
About Intervoice
For more information,
Click Here or visit
www.intervoice.com.
Intervoice has included in this press release certain
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
concerning its business and operations that are based on
management’s current beliefs, including statements
regarding plans and timetables for promotion and
distribution of BEA and Intervoice products. All
statements other than statements of historical fact in
this press release are forward-looking statements.
Readers are cautioned to read the risks and
uncertainties, described in the Company’s filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
without limitation, the risks and uncertainties set
forth under the caption entitled "Cautionary Disclosures
to Qualify Forward-Looking Statements" in the Company’s
Annual Report filed on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports
filed on Form 10-Q. Intervoice cautions current and
potential investors that such risks and uncertainties
could result in material differences from the
forward-looking statements in this press release.
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