A colleague of mine, William Henry , brought a very interesting InfoWorld article to my attention earlier this week. I’d recommend that anyone interested in how SOA is playing out in the telco space take a moment to read it – there’s some great information in the piece.
And while Leon Erlanger, the freelancer who wrote the article specifically focused on SOA and VoIP, and didn’t explore too deeply the underlying technology that is enabling SOA (his focus was on a couple of device manufacturers and a couple of software providers) it got me thinking about IONA’s role in helping telco’s evolve their infrastructure to support SOA.
Anybody that knows anything about IONA knows that we’ve been in the telco space since our beginnings. CORBA is all over the telco space and a lot of that CORBA is ours. What we also have is 15 + years of domain expertise that we’ve applied to Artix.
For example, we’re helping Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe SOA enable their devices and we’re active in the organizations driving today’s telco standards and incorporating those standards into Artix. We’re working with telco ISVs to help make their products SOA ready and are helping telco providers like O2 take advantage of SOA.
If you're interested in Telco and SOA, you should check us out.