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Ulticom Partners Bring IMS Solutions to Market Faster
Ulticom Partners Bring IMS Solutions to Market
Faster New Alliance Program Formed to Accelerate Deployment
of Converged Networks and Services; Seven Industry Leaders
Join as First Members
Mt. Laurel, NJ, January 31, 2006 – Ulticom®, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ULCM), the premier provider of network signaling solutions
today announced the launch of its new strategic alliance initiative.
The Ulticom Alliance Program brings together innovative industry
leaders to help system and service providers adopt the IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) as their next generation infrastructure for the
delivery of new subscriber service offerings.
As demand for IMS-based applications increases, Network Equipment
Providers (NEP) and System Integrators (SI) are taking a modular
approach to building IMS elements, which requires the integration
of many third-party hardware and software components. Integration
of these components is a major undertaking for NEPs and SIs,
because uncertainties exist with respect to their compatibility
and collective performance as they are integrated into an overall
solution. The Ulticom Alliance Program helps reduce time to market
and provides assurance that the end solution will be successful.
Ulticom’s Signalware® products provide an integrated
signaling platform that supports the development and deployment
of carrier-grade applications based on SS7, SIGTRAN, SIP and
Diameter protocols. The Ulticom Alliance Program targets hardware
and operating system platform vendors, Independent Software Vendors
(ISVs) and delivery vendors that add value to the Signalware
product portfolio. Specific benefits of the program include interoperability
and benchmark testing for Signalware-based solutions, along with
targeted joint sales and marketing collaboration.
“All segments of the communications value chain are demanding
their vendors widen their expertise by leveraging partnerships,” said
Osman Duman, vice president of marketing at Ulticom. “The
Ulticom Alliance Program was created to build and sustain the
key relationships necessary to design, develop, integrate and
manage innovative communication services.”
Seven companies – Sun Microsystems, Open Cloud, tekVizion
PVS, jNetX, GoAhead Software, Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions
and Kabira Technologies – have already joined the program,
bringing their industry knowledge and domain expertise to Ulticom
customers worldwide.
Sun Microsystems
"The Ulticom Alliance Program strengthens
Ulticom's position as a partner in the Sun Partner Advantage
Program for ISVs Industry Advantage Track, providing additional
focus on customer-driven signaling platform requirements, and
joint delivery and selling opportunities," said Stephen
Borcich, vice president, Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems. "Together,
our two companies provide NEPs and SIs with a powerful combination—Signalware
on the Solaris 10 Operating System for SPARC and very soon on
x64—on which to deploy their solutions."
Open Cloud
“Open Cloud Rhino JAIN SLEE takes full advantage
of Signalware's capabilities and support for global variants
and Ulticom’s
position as a market leader in signaling deployments,” said
Peter Barralet, CEO at Open Cloud. “The Ulticom Alliance
Program provides us the products, tools and support we need to
develop and test Signalware resource adapters, providing a proven,
standards-based, converged services delivery architecture to
service providers, NEPs and SIs.”
tekVizion PVS
“Ulticom’s alliance program enhances tekVizion’s ability
to demonstrate, test and deliver Signalware-enabled IMS and converged network
applications to both our customers and theirs,” said Sach Vengurlekar,
tekVizion’s chief executive officer. “We are pleased to be a part
of this new program and to offer this expanded domain expertise to our customers.”
GoAhead Software
“Ulticom Signalware and GoAhead SelfReliant are complimentary
technologies that enable highly available IMS services,” said
Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. “GoAhead is excited to join the
Ulticom Alliance Program and work towards product compatibility,
adding more value to GoAhead’s carrier-grade, application
ready platform, which is rapidly gaining momentum in the marketplace.”
jNetX
“Signalware provides a flexible and dependable signaling platform for
the N(x) convergent service platform,” said Matthieu Loreille, marketing
director at jNetX. “We’re happy to participate in an alliance program
such as Ulticom’s that offers us the world-class support needed to tailor
N(x) in accordance with the network signaling requirements of our customers.”
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions
“Our line of PCI, PCI-X
and PCI Express expansion chassis enables cost effective, incremental
growth of SS7 links when the board slot capacity of a server
is surpassed,” said
Jessica Isquith, vice president, Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions. “Ulticom's
alliance program enables our joint customers to fully leverage
Signalware’s unparalleled scalability with these validated
expansion options across a broad range of computing platforms.”
Kabira Technologies
"Ulticom and Kabira share a similar
goal: providing scalable, highly available solutions enabling
converged communications services," said Doug Ehrenreich,
VP Business Development at Kabira. "Through Ulticom's alliance
program, Kabira can combine the best-in-class Signalware IMS
protocols with our high-performance Transaction Switch to deliver
a reliable platform for building and deploying real-time, converged
network charging, authentication and messaging solutions."
More information on the Ulticom Alliance Program can be found
by visiting http://www.ulticom.com/html/about/partner-programs.asp.
About Ulticom, Inc.
Ulticom provides service-enabling signaling software for wireless,
wireline, and Internet communications. Ulticom's products are
used by leading telecommunication equipment and service providers
worldwide to deploy mobility, location, payment, switching,
and messaging services. Traded on NASDAQ as ULCM, Ulticom is
headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ with additional offices in
the United States, Europe, and Asia. For more information,
visit http://www.ulticom.com.
About Open Cloud
Open Cloud technology revolutionizes the portability
and time-to-market of the next generation of rich communication
services. Visit them online at www.opencloud.com
About tekVizion PVS
tekVizion has set the new standard for systems integration in
the telecommunications industry. tekVizion’s services
include consulting, custom applications, integration and support,
and testing through tekVizion Labs™-- the first interoperability
certification lab of its kind. Visit them online at www.tekvizion.com
About GoAhead Software
Deployed on more than 10,000 nodes worldwide,
GoAhead Software is the expert in building middleware for systems
requiring 99.999% or greater availability. GoAhead’s standards-based,
application-ready platform is the solution for telecom equipment
manufacturers who want to speed their time to market and reduce
development and integration costs. For more information, visit
www.goahead.com.
About jNetX
jNetX’s Convergent Service Platform provides operators
with a convergent Next Generation of Intelligent Networks, IMS/SIP
Application Servers and a set of Gateways to integrate the network
with the IT domain. Carriers and service providers cut sharply
the time and costs of designing, testing, provisioning, and selling
more revenue-generating, loyalty-enhancing services. Visit them
online at www.jnetx.com.
About Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions
Carlo Gavazzi Computing
Solutions designs and manufactures products based on AdvancedTCA,
CompactPCI, PCI/ISA, and VME technologies for the industrial,
medical, military, and telecom markets. Visit them online at www.gavazzi-computing.com.
About Kabira Technologies, Inc.
Kabira is a leader in high performance transaction processing
software. Global enterprises that service high volume, low
margin transactions require Kabira for their mission-critical
operations. Kabira delivers solutions that are highly available,
flexible and scalable at a tenth of the overall cost of traditional
systems. Headquartered in San Rafael, California, Kabira has
been installed and widely adopted by over 70 leaders in telecommunications,
financial services and government sectors in more than 30 countries.
Learn more online at www.kabira.com.
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NOTE: This release may contain “forward-looking statements” under
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve
risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurances that forward-looking
statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ
materially from forecasts and estimates. Important factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially include: changes
in the demand for Ulticom’s products; changes in capital
spending among Ulticom’s current and prospective customers;
risks associated with Ulticom’s dependence on sales of
its Signalware products; risks associated with future networks
not utilizing signaling systems and protocols which Ulticom’s
products are designed to support; risks associated with the development
and acceptance of new products and product features; risks associated
with Ulticom’s dependence on a limited number of customers
for a significant percentage of revenues; risks associated with
the integration of Ulticom’s products with those of equipment
manufacturers and application developers and its ability to establish
and maintain channel and marketing relationships with leading
equipment manufacturers and application developers; risks associated
with rapidly changing technology and the ability of Ulticom to
introduce new products on a timely and cost-effective basis;
risks associated with holding a large proportion of Ulticom’s
assets in cash equivalents and short-term investments and the
reduction of prevailing interest rates; risks associated with
Ulticom’s ability to retain existing personnel and recruit
and retain qualified personnel. These risks and uncertainties,
as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in Ulticom’s
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q. All documents are available through the
SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system
(EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from
Ulticom’s web site at www.ulticom.com. Ulticom makes no
commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statements
in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any
such statement is made.
© 2006 Ulticom,
Inc. All rights reserved. Ulticom, Signalware, IMS-Ready and
Software Advancing Communications are trademarks of Ulticom,
Inc.
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