Leading Asian Operator Leverages Powerful BEA SDP Middleware to Expand and Manage Revenue-enhancing Services from Third-party Content and Service Providers
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1. To help accelerate the development and delivery of new innovative services, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has deployed BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper to underpin its next-generation service delivery platform (SDP).
2. Powerful Telecom Web Services, service level agreement-based policy enforcement and partner management capabilities of BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper enable SingTel to increase and manage new revenue-enhancing services.
3. By leveraging BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, SingTel is evolving its existing SDP into a next-generation architecture, providing seamless integration with content delivery, end-user and partner management portals.
'We are committed to providing our customers with convenient, valuable and innovative services via wireless and Internet platforms and recognize that these services must be developed quickly and must function reliably in order to meet the needs of today's consumer,' said
A key aspect of next-generation SDPs is that they allow third-party partners to access an operator's telecom network capabilities such as messaging, call control, charging, presence and location. To ease the integration of an operator's capabilities with third-party partners, including IT developers, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper uses open, industry standards such as Java and Web services, as well as custom telco interfaces. With BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper deployed in its SDP to enforce service level agreements, SingTel can manage and control the increased partner access and can source new revenue-generating services from a larger pool of third-party content and service provider partners.
'Rapid technological change, combined with increasing consumer demand for innovative and personalized services, has created significant opportunity for the telecommunications industry. In this dynamic market, innovation, responsiveness and reliability are critical,' said Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager of BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems. 'We are delighted that SingTel has deployed BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper as the agile and scalable foundation of its next-generation service delivery platform.'
SingTel Group is a leading integrated communications group in the Asia Pacific region with operations in 20 countries and more than 158 million mobile subscribers -- the largest mobile customer base in Asia outside of
BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper is the telecom web services and policy enforcement component of the BEA WebLogic(R) Communications Platform family of communications infrastructure software products. It is a market-leading service access gateway (SAG) solution in service delivery platforms for telecom network operators and can be seamlessly integrated with fixed-line, mobile, IMS, cable or broadband networks. This powerful SAG solution is designed to help operators achieve cost and operational efficiencies and increase revenue opportunities by quickly enabling new, innovative, highly available and scalable services to be delivered leveraging the operator's existing network capabilities.
About BEA WebLogic Communications Platform
BEA WebLogic Communications Platform is a family of communication infrastructure software products designed to enable telecom network operators and communication service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively create, deploy and manage converged IP-telecom services. The product family includes BEA WebLogic SIP Server; BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper and BroadWorks, BEA WebLogic Edition. For more information about the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family, please visit http://www.bea.com/wlcom.
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About SingTel
SingTel is Asia's leading communications group with operations and investments around the world. Serving both the corporate and consumer markets, it is committed to bringing the best of global communications to customers in the Asia Pacific and beyond.
With significant operations in
To serve the needs of multi-national corporations, SingTel has a network of 37 offices in 19 countries and territories throughout Asia Pacific,
The Group also has major investments in
SingTel employs more than 19,000 people worldwide and had a turnover of S$13.15 billion (US$8.40 billion) and net profit after tax of S$3.78 billion (US$2.42 billion) for the year ended
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