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Contents
Introduction 2
Part A
Section 1 Smart Devices 5
Section 2 Smart Networks 9
Section 3 Smart Portals 13
Section 4 Smart Services 17
Section 5 Smart Operations 21
Part B
Section 1 Products 25
Section 2 Programs and Alliances 29
Section 3 Service 40
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2 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution Sun for Wireless Services: A Natural Selection
INTRODUCTION: SUN FOR WIRELESS SERVICES: A NATURAL SELECTION
It’s All About Services platform or another. And you can deploy new
services rapidly and reliably, giving your
SECTION 1
In the wireless age, technology and infra- business a huge competitive advantage.
structure alone don’t deliver competitive
advantages. Services do. Sun’s focus, there- Equally important, you can begin to integrate
fore, is on helping its customers maximize services rather than simply provide connections
the quality and speed of service development to services. You can harness the convergence
and delivery. of video, data, and multimedia networks to
offer customers innovative combinations of
Our vision is called the Wireless Service- services, such as location-based m-commerce
Driven Network, and every product and and assistance or traffic and calendar advi-
service we offer is aimed at facilitating the sories. You can integrate services based on
design, development, deployment, and standard protocols. And you can deliver any
management of services that maximize combination of mobile wireless and fixed
service-level quality at minimal cost and wireless services.
complexity. While each implementation of a
Wireless Service-Driven Network will vary This guide describes the specific opportunities
with business and technical objectives, the major networking trends are creating for
attributes of Wireless Service-Driven Networks everyone in the wireless value chain, and
are tangible and consistent: shows where and how Sun solutions apply
within four key areas of the wireless market:
• They are modular, dynamic networks based at the device level, within the access and
on Internet standards. core network, at the wireless portal, and in
• They make network services available to applications and content services.
any user, any time, from anywhere, using
virtually any device. The Net Effect is Revolutionizing
• They adapt on demand to meet new user Wireless Opportunities
requirements and they evolve to accept
new technologies.
Everything that touches the network today is
growing at an explosive rate: the number of
By building a Wireless Service-Driven Net-
users, the diversity of devices, the volume of
work, you can help ensure that your wireless
data, the bandwidth being utilized, and the
services deliver on end-user expectations for
demand for wireless services. As a result, the
performance, availability, reliability, and
value of network services is on an upward
security. You can scale your infrastructure on
spiral. This trend, which Sun calls the Net
the fly to meet unpredictable spikes in
Effect, creates unprecedented opportunities
demand. You can leverage your existing
for all players in the wireless market.
resources without locking yourself in to one
6 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 7 SMART DEVICES: SUN ANSWERS THE CALL WITH JAVA TECHNOLOGY
SECTION 1: SMAR T DEVICES: SUN ANSWERS THE CALL WITH JAVA TECHNOLOGY
10 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 11 SMART NETWORKS: CARRIER-GRADE, FUTURE-READY INFRASTRUCTURE
SECTION 3
14 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 15 SMART NETWORKS: CARRIER-GRADE, FUTURE-READY INFRASTRUCTURE
SECTION 3 SMART PORTAL: IPLANET WIRELESS SOLUTIONS
18 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 19 SMART SERVICES: A COMPLETE PORTFOLIO OF SOLUTIONS
SECTION 5
22 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 23 OPERATIONS SUPPORT: MANAGEMENT TOOLS
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Part B
SECTION 1
Products
SECTION 1
Core solutions from Sun include: • Sun StorEdge™ storage devices: Sun has • Sun Cluster software: Sun’s clustering
• Java Technology for Wireless Devices: transformed storage from a passive software brings a new dimension of avail-
Java™ technology is perfectly suited for resource into a strategic weapon. Our Sun ability to Sun systems through advanced
wireless devices, providing such benefits as StorEdge arrays and tape libraries enable failover techniques. Now customers can
built-in security, rich user interface, and you to implement Managed Storage Net- achieve extremely high levels of availability
the ability to dynamically deploy interac- works that are highly scalable, available, in clustered systems with a proven, cost-
tive wireless services. and manageable; that easily incorporate effective software solution.
third-party products; and that remain open
• Sun Enterprise™ servers: From the single- to innovation from multiple sources. • cPCI products: Sun’s CompactPCI (cPCI)
processor Enterprise™ Ultra 5S workgroup product line, the SPARCengine CP family,
server to the world’s most powerful UNIX • Solaris 8 Operating Environment: In Solaris merges the benefits of the CompactPCI
server, the 64-way Enterprise™ 10000 server, 8 software, Sun delivers a trustworthy, specification, UltraSPARC processor technology,
Sun Enterprise servers deliver the scalable universal operating platform to meet the and the Solaris operating environment.
horsepower you need for virtually any needs of the wireless community and their Now wireless OEMs can take advantage of
wireless application. customers. The Solaris operating environment volume silicon, a high-performance pro-
brings 64-bit computing and mainframe-class cessing platform, and a robust, proven
• Sun Netra™ systems: Sun’s carrier-grade reliability, availability, and serviceability to software environment.
Netra servers are the ONLY NEBS-certified mission-critical environments.
product family for the radio access net-
work, and deliver unprecedented levels of • ChorusOS Operating Environment: The
availability and space-efficiency, enabling ChorusOS Operating Environment provides
you to deploy cost-effective, standards- one of the most reliable, feature-rich,
compliant power in any increment with full real-time operating systems and develop-
binary compatibility across the product family. ment environments in the industry. Its
unique componentized OS architecture
allows ChorusOS configurations to scale
seamlessly from very small, embedded
instances (10KB) to high functionality,
transparently distributed platforms.
30 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 31 PROGRAMS AND ALLIANCES
PAR T B: SECTION 2: PROGRAMS AND ALLIANCES
32 The Net Effect and the Wireless Revolution 33 PROGRAMS AND ALLIANCES
PAR T B: SECTION 2: PROGRAMS AND ALLIANCES
Content and Application Services services. Designed for carriers and portals, voice devices-from PDAs to smart phones to network applications, security, messaging,
AirFlash provides a robust platform called interactive TV to plain old telephones. Every- and transactions to handheld devices for
2Roam SmartZone for delivering location-based path’s patent-pending technology enables mobile and wireless users. answerthink’s
2Roam is a wireless Web platform provider services with an integrated set of easy-to- businesses to maintain a single infrastruc- marketing and strategy focus can extend a
that helps companies extend their existing use, "Find it, Buy it, Share it" applications ture, regardless of what device their cus- company’s brand experience and marketing
content and e-commerce to all wireless tuned for the mobile medium. AirFlash tomers choose to access information from, messages to the wireless channel for customers,
devices quickly and profitably. The scalable Wireless Services drive adoption and usage now-or in the future. www.everypath.com suppliers, and employees who demand access
2Roam platform is designed to address the of mobile services, while providing a strategic to information anytime and anywhere.
revenue and business goals of its customers platform for future, value-added, revenue- MapInfo www.answerthink.com
by easily integrating wireless e-commerce, generating services. www.airflash.com MapInfo offers a robust combination of
advertising, and e-marketing programs and location-based software and content to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Telecom, Media
services, while providing them with complete AlterEgo Networks wireless equipment manufacturers, carriers, & Networks
control of their brand.2 www.2roam.com AlterEgo Networks is one of the leading and business-to-business application vendors Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) and Sun
wireless adaptive Internet service companies, seeking to provide location-based services to Microsystems, together with CGEY’s key
724 Solutions offering customers for both Sun and AlterEgo their customers. www.mapinfo.com industry business alliances, are delivering
724 Solutions provides an Internet infrastruc- the industry’s most reliable, available, and technology, service, and programs that are
ture solution to financial institutions that allows highest quality of user experience in mobile OracleMobile empowering companies working with Java™
them to offer personalized and secure mobile access to intranet/Internet content and OracleMobile is a leading wireless application technology to develop solutions in the
banking, investment, and e-commerce services applications. AlterEgo offers a worldwide, service provider that creates and hosts wireless wireless space. The relationship is built, and
across a wide range of Internet-enabled multi-node wireless content adaptation and Web sites, making them accessible from any will continue to combine resources to match
wireless and consumer electronic devices. delivery network, based on XML and XSL device, including Web-enabled phones, PDAs, the needs of a diverse portfolio of customers.
www.724.com standard technologies. www.aego.com paging devices, digital cell phones, or voice- www.capgemini.com/telco
activated phones. www.oraclemobile.com
Aether Systems Brience Idea Integration
For Fortune 2000 businesses that demand The Brience 2.0 Framework is a scalable iForce Wireless e-Integrators Idea Integration is a leading Internet solutions
access to vital information anywhere and software platform that allows companies to provider, and has the industry and technical
anytime, Aether Systems provides end-to-end leverage current e-business infrastructure for Agency.com expertise to develop e-business solutions that
mobile and wireless solutions. Aether provides mobile computing and broadband access. AGENCY.COM builds core applications allow its clients to maintain their competitive
comprehensive hosting services, vertical www.brience.com accessed by Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition edge in today’s connected economy. Idea
market solutions, and infrastructure software (J2ME™) technology-compliant devices using Integration specializes in solution areas,
product offerings-enabling businesses to achieve Everypath iPlanet™ software, supported by the Solaris™ including e-business strategy, creative design,
the freedom to grow in a dynamic and Everypath enables companies to do business Operating Environment, and running on Sun™ e-application development, B2B solutions,
mobile environment. www.aethersystems.com with customers, partners, and employees hardware. www.agency.com enterprise application integration (EAI),
anytime, anywhere, by mobilizing real-time, business intelligence, customer relationship
AirFlash complex, transactional Web content, database Answerthink management (CRM), and enterprise solutions
AirFlash is one of the leading application information, and traditional business appli- As an eIntegrator, answerthink provides to deliver innovative, end-to-end, e-business
service providers (ASP) of location-relevant cations for customized interaction with the customized "enterprise to anywhere" mobile solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and
wireless content, community, and commerce widest array of wireless, broadband, and and wireless solutions that deploy content, global businesses. www.idea.com
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iXL’s Mobile & Wireless Solutions Group operational, they help their clients harness and launch support to Global 1000 and and applications optimized for video manage-
As a Sun iForce eIntegrator, iXL is a global
SM
Disruptive Technologies to create a competitive startup companies. As architects for the new ment, distribution, delivery, and commerce.
consulting firm providing the professional advantage. Noblestar experts adeptly link economy, Sapient helps clients define their www.kasenna.com
services necessary to implement a wide range business and brand strategy to user experience Internet strategies and design, architect,
of Sun solutions. iXL’s Mobile & Wireless and, ultimately, to enterprise-wide and wireless develop, and implement solutions to execute Natural MicroSystems
Solutions group helps clients use wireless solutions. At the same time, they help clients those strategies. www.sapient.com Natural MicroSystems (NMS) provides core
technology to transform the way business realign processes and mine business data for data and telephony technologies (line interfaces,
gets done. www.ixl.com intelligence to support strategic decisions. Zefer DSP voice processing resources, integrated
The results? Performance breakthroughs in ZEFER provides strategy-led Internet consulting software API sets, and protocol stacks) to
Lante Corporation top-line growth, cost containment, brand and implementation services to Global 2000 OEM telecom network equipment providers
Lante Corporation, a leading e-market builder, dominance, and employee satisfaction. companies and new ventures to help them worldwide. Combined with Sun’s computing
is developing new applications on the Internet www.noblestar.com achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and server products, NMS creates carrier-grade
Services Deployment Platform of iPlanet™ in the new economy. ZEFER services include communications infrastructure or service
e-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape™ Proxicom, Inc. business strategy, user experience design, delivery platforms that span today’s TDM-
Alliance, with a special emphasis on new Proxicom, Inc. is a leading e-business consulting technical architecture, program management, based public switched telephone network
applications using the iPlanet Wireless and development company that delivers and development of wireless solutions-multi- and tomorrow’s IP packet/cell-based wireless
Server. The initiative is focused on improving innovative multi-channel solutions, including channeled, network-enabled solutions designed or wireline telecommunications and data
information presentation and retrieval, two Internet and wireless applications for Fortune to meet clients’ business requirements. communications networks. www.nmss.com
of the critical building blocks for effective 500 companies and other global, forward- www.zefer.com
wireless services. www.lante.com thinking businesses. Proxicom’s more than Performance Technologies, Inc
1,000 strategy, creative, and technology IP Based Network Solutions Performance Technologies, Inc. (PTI) is a
Marchfirst professionals provide specialized e-business leading supplier of innovative telecommuni-
marchFIRST is a leading global professional development expertise for their multiple Hughes Software Systems cations and networking products that enable
services firm that creates winners in the new global practices. www.proxicom.com Hughes Software Systems (HSS) provides one the convergence of wireline, wireless, and
digital economy by helping companies build of the most extensive, scalable, and portable next-generation Internet Protocol networks.
visionary brands, business models, systems, Rare Medium software solution to OEMs to reduce their time The company provides enabling carrier-grade
and processes. This multidisciplinary Rare Medium Pervasive Solutions Group delivers to market in the high-speed wireless domain technology solutions, including telecom
approach empowers companies to transform end-to-end mobile and wireless solutions to (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS). www.hssworld.com network access adapters, Ethernet switching
their businesses, drive innovation, and its clients. Leveraging Java technology, Rare products, and Signaling System 7 (SS7)
become market leaders. Headquartered in Medium provides strategic services, custom Incomit solutions to network operators, equipment
Chicago, the Company has approximately application development, integration, and Incomit’s mission is to provide "The Secure manufacturers, and systems integrators
10,000 employees in 14 countries worldwide. content delivery to any device, any time, Sluice" for opening up the telecom network worldwide. www.pt.com
www.marchfirst.com anywhere. www.raremedium.com and for making it programmable in an Inter-
net environment. www.incomit.com
Noblestar Sapient
Noblestar accomplishes the most difficult, Sapient is a leading creator of "New Economy" Kasenna, Inc.
highly valued dimensions of e-business businesses, providing Internet strategy Kasenna develops software that enables
transformation. By taking e-business strategies consulting, sophisticated end-to-end solutions, streaming media ventures to build networks
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SBE, Inc. expand service delivery models and may Espial services, RIM provides solutions for seamless
SBE, Inc., offers the HighWire family of make possible the joining of wireless service Espial is an emerging leader in infrastructure access to time-sensitive information, including
carrier-class PCI and CompactPCI (cPCI) providers and application service providers to software for the Pervasive Internet. The email, messaging, Internet, and intranet-based
communications controllers for network achieve a Programmable Network. company offers a universal service-manage- applications. RIM technology also enables a
servers. The HighWire products deliver www.Ulticom.com ment solution for service providers and broad array of third-party developers and
flexible, high-density solutions that can play device manufacturers based on Sun’s Java™ 2 manufacturers around the world to enhance
a key role in signaling gateways, media Xybridge Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME™) and Java 2 their products and services with wireless
gateway controllers, and Softswitch systems Xybridge is the leader in creating the Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) technologies. connectivity. www.rim.net
that are critical network elements in wireline, wireless industry’s first carrier-class mobility www.espial.com
wireless, and converging PSTN/IP network management and applications solutions for Wireless OSS/BSS
platforms. www.sbei.com next-generation networks. Xybridge offers Eliad Technologies, Inc.
mobility management, call control, and Eliad Technologies focuses on extending Web Nuance
TimesTen Performance Software features over a distributed, open IP-core applications to wireless devices supporting Nuance develops, markets, and supports a
TimesTen Performance Software delivers the infrastructure. Xybridge and its offerings the Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME™ ) voice interface software platform that makes
real-time data infrastructure that powers empower service providers to rapidly develop technology. Eliad provides table, grid, and information and services of enterprises,
next-generation networks and e-business and deploy differentiated, revenue-generating spreadsheet components, fully compatible telecommunications networks, and the
innovation. TimesTen Performance Software’s services in today’s converging environment. with Sun specifications and open architecture Internet accessible from any telephone.
data caching and in-memory database products www.xybridge.com requirements. www.eliad.com www.nuance.com
speed time-to-market, shrink response times,
and maximize the throughput and uptime of Java™ Enabled Handset Technologies Motorola Portal Software
the most time-critical applications, such as Motorola is a global leader providing inte- Portal Software builds the business infrastructure
wireless infrastructures, VoIP, e-CRM, and Bonita grated communications and embedded for the Internet by providing customer
e-commerce. www.timestem.com Bonita Software’s ToGo Mobile Solutions solutions for business and consumer applica- management and billing software for Internet
mobilize information and applications across tions. Sun Microsystems has licensed and next-generation communication services.
Ulticom, Inc. all devices. The ToGo Provisioning Platform Motorola to use and distribute the full family www.portal.com
Ulticom Inc. provides service-enabling enables service providers to remotely of Java™ platform technologies. Motorola has
software for wireless, wireline, and Internet administer, manage, and track application incorporated various Java products into their Solect, A Division of Amdocs
communications in Intelligent and Converged usage, and allows end users to download a total solutions portfolio, and is collaborating Amdocs’ Solect Division provides carrier-grade
Networks. Ulticom’s Signalware software and personalized set of applications. Its ToGo with Sun Microsystems to develop Java customer care, billing, and service manage-
interface board product line is used worldwide Applications offer enterprise-grade security, technology standard platforms. ment to ASPs, broadband, mobile IP, and
on Sun™ platforms to manage thousands of operate in disconnected mode, and provide www.motorola.com/java next-generation service providers.
networks, connect millions of subscribers, real-time data-eliminating the need for www.amdocs.com or www.solect.com
and process billions of transactions. Signalware synchronization. www.bonitasoftware.com Research In Motion Limited
includes wireless libraries to enable a full Research In Motion Limited is a leading
range of mobility applications deployed in designer, manufacturer, and marketer of
TDMA, CDMA, GSM, and analog networks, innovative wireless solutions for the mobile
and in the 3G environment of the future. communications market. Through development
Prototypes of Ulticom’s new Nexworx products and integration of hardware, software, and
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Services
SECTION 3
Wireless Service Offering
Sun’s integrated service solutions and experi- your customers; reduce your time-to-market
enced professionals can assist you with every and business risks; improve your ability to
aspect of planning, designing, architecting, mange change; maximize new investments
deploying, and operating your wireless in technology while maximizing previous
infrastructure--24 hours a day, 7 days a week, investments; achieve and maintain SunTone
365 days a year. Sun works with you to help certification for your wireless infrastructure;
accelerate revenue through faster deployment and grow your customer base and your
of innovative, highly differentiated services; infrastructure simultaneously.
help ensure continuous service availability to