BT Cellnet to Create New Service Management Infrastructure With IONA.Business/Technology Editors DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 IONA(R), the leading e-business platform provider for Total Business Integration(TM) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IONA), today announced that BT Cellnet, the UK's premier mobile operator, has chosen IONA's e-business platform to create a new infrastructure for its Operational Support Systems (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ). BT Cellnet is enhancing its OSS infrastructure to address the constant evolution in the cellular marketplace. The company's new OSS infrastructure will underpin the architecture for complex OSS deployment, including Service and Fault Management, Performance Management and Planning. This end-to-end solution uses IONA's Orbix(R) 2000 and 3.0 Java Edition products to connect the applications involved, from the network management layer to the associated clients. "Our infrastructure initiative is a key strategic undertaking. The nature of the project requires an open and scalable architecture, to enhance the flexibility and performance of our environment," said Gavin Duckett for BT Cellnet. "IONA offers a superb solution to meet our objectives, and their products' adherence to standards such as CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global , J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. and XML should contribute to the long-term viability of our new generation OSS strategy." "The IONA solution will help BT Cellnet develop and deploy a new software infrastructure that should increase their competitive advantage," said Peter Lelliott, Vice President of Sales for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. at IONA. "IONA has a strong experience in the telecommunications space and the inherent scalability and flexibility of our solutions will help BT Cellnet meet their needs today, as well as the increasing demands of their customers over time." About IONA IONA is a leading e-business platform provider for Total Business Integration. IONA supports a diversity of languages, including Java and C++ and distributed computing technologies, including XML, SOAP, UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. , EJB, J2EE, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000, IBM OS/390, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. . Founded in 1991, IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $153 million in 2000 and employs more than 800 people in 30 offices worldwide. For more information, please see http://www.iona.com. About BT Cellnet -- Today BT Cellnet has 10.24 million customers using its voice services including over 1 million customers with Mobile Internet enabled phones. -- BT Cellnet is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT plc. -- www.btcellnet.net IONA, IONA Suite, iPortal Application Server, iPortal Integrator, iPortal OS/390 Server, iPortal SureTrack, iPortal XMLBus, Orbix, Adaptive Runtime Technology and Total Business Integration are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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