Intervoice and BEA: Telecommunications Solutions

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., 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.

Intervoice will be promoting the joint solutions on the BEA Booth #5009, Telecom Village, Hall 5 & 7, Asia World Expo at the ITU conference in Hong Kong, 4 - 8, December and on its own stand (Stand E1) at BEA World Beijing (13 and 14, December).

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") - Intervoice.