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BEA Systems, Inc., a global enterprise and communications infrastructure software provider and BroadSoft (News - Alert), Inc., a provider of VoIP application software has announced a broad-ranging strategic alliance.

The multi-year, multi-phased strategic alliance includes joint development, sales, and marketing of solutions that will integrate the BroadSoft BroadWorks suite of VoIP applications with the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family.

Both BEA Systems (News - Alert) and BroadSoft are conducting joint sales and marketing efforts under the alliance. BroadSoft has already begun to integrate and port the BroadWorks software platform with BEA WebLogic SIP Server.

The companies have teamed to provide service providers the ability to offer industry-leading applications over an innovative, standards-based platform. Service providers can use the combination of BroadWorks software and BEA WebLogic SIP Server to deploy revenue-generating services with a rich set of VoIP capabilities.

The combined solution will be designed to provide a flexible and extensible architecture that will work in an all-IP and IMS environment in the future.

Ken Rokoff, vice president of business development at BroadSoft believes this alliance brings together two industry-leading telecom application platforms, which will allow service providers to deliver BroadWorks-based fixed and mobile VoIP services with IMS enablers and capabilities that can be hosted on BEA WebLogic SIP Server.

Rokoff said that this unique offering can help drive new service revenues for service providers.

“Service providers are demanding VoIP solutions that can shorten time-to-market for enhanced communication services over NGN and IMS architectures,” said Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems in a press release.

He continued: “By bringing the BroadSoft BroadWorks solution together with the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family, BEA and BroadSoft will provide a feature-rich set of VoIP service enablers designed to help operators implement new revenue-generating services more rapidly and more cost-effectively.”

BEA Systems, Inc. is a global enterprise and communications infrastructure software provider.

BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to 7 of the top 10 and 13 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including Korea Telecom, Singtel, Sprint (News - Alert), Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.