FLASH - CNBC (Tech'99 segment) to highlight Sun Microsystems and their telecom initiative at 8:43 AM (PST)...
According to SUN this is a new $100 Billion dollar market for them....
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SUN BRINGS CONTINUOUS COMPUTING TO THE TELCO CENTRAL OFFICE WITH NEW FAULT
Tolerant Server and NEBS-Certified Storage
Netra(TM) ft 1800 Server Delivers Greater Than 'Five Nines'
Availability For Telecom-Critical IN/AIN Applications Like Emergency
911 and Calling Card
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Sun Announces Immediate Availability of Solstice Enterprise Manager 3.0 Software
NEW YORK (Jan. 12) BUSINESS WIRE -Jan. 12, 1999--
Now Shipping Best-of-Breed Scalable, High-Performing Service-Driven Network Solution to Enterprises and Telecommunications Carriers
Delivering on a key component of the company's Service-Driven Network
strategy, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the immediate availability
of the new Java-enabled version of its highly scalable, multi-protocol
distributed network management foundation, Solstice(tm) Enterprise
Manager(tm) 3.0. The new version integrates the Java development
environment to provide enterprises and carriers a faster time to market of new business services while maintaining unlimited scalability. Leading Carriers Deploying Solstice Enterprise Manager 3.0
"Today's carriers require next generation applications to maintain
competitive advantage," said Jack Collins, director of Network
Management Products, Sun Microsystems. "The stability provided by the
new Enterprise Manager enables carriers to deploy these applications
while relying on open standards."
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Largest Private Telecom Provider in France Chooses Sun Microsystems; Among the First to Deliver New, All-In-One Email, Internet Access and Wireless Services
NEW YORK (Jan. 12) BUSINESS WIRE -Jan. 12, 1999-- Telecom Providers, Like Cegetel, Choose Scalable And Reliable Sun Platform As Backbone For Industry-Leading Services
Capitalizing on the skyrocketing wireless population in France, Cegetel has announced the new "In-Edit" service -- a "one-stop" email, Internet access and wireless service based on the Sun(TM) platform.
Cegetel, a leading private telecommunications company in France with
about 40 percent market share held by Cegetel's SFR (Societe Francaise
du Radiotelephone) division for wireless GSM business, is among the
first worldwide to successfully integrate its wireless phone and
Internet services to provide consumers email, Internet and voice
services through one bill, one "phone number/email address," device
choice (their cell phone or any Web browser), and one infrastructure on the back end. Cegetel's new "In-Edit" service redefines how
telecommunications services will be offered to consumers over the next
decade -- simpler, easier, and through one integrated service.
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Several news stories out today on Sun....parts are posted above.
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