Nortel to bundle Mobicents SLEE with AS 5200/CS 2000 hardware (May 27, 2009)

Nortel may have tough times now, but they deliver good news to the JAIN SLEE community. Ivelin Ivanov, the manager of JBCP initiative in JBoss, recently posted a link to an analysis of the IMS strategy at Nortel. The strategy includes close partnership with RedHat and bundling the JBCP/Mobicents platform with novel Nortel’s IMS softswitches.

This is the first example known to me when JAIN SLEE platform is about to be deployed at the operator’s infrastructure using hardware other than commodity servers. Developer could see the benefits of that immediately: legacy Nortel systems could be seamlessly connected to IMS with JBCP at its core. The whole JAIN SLEE infrastructure in Nortel’s equipment is still yet to be opened for the third-party vendors, but closely affiliated companies have already started developming SLEE-based services using JBCP (the article mentions Telekom Austria which is known for its ties to Nortel).

Independently of who will inherit the Nortel’s business in the nearest future, it is clear that bundling open platform with carrier-grade equipment should become even more widespread. JAIN SLEE as the mature and evolving standard is in the good position here.