Red Hat expands footprint in Telecommunications

RALEIGH, NC: Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced that the company has taken steps to expand its footprint in the telecommunications market.

Recognizing the increasing demands for technology providers to support the incredible amounts of data transfer - audio, video and multimedia, Red Hat is expanding its solutions portfolio to deepen its support of the telecommunications community through open source.

Today, the Company is announcing the acquisition of Mobicents technology and its new membership to the SCOPE alliance. Red Hat will work to provide the infrastructure software, platforms and tools to enable next-generation service creation, delivery and management in the telecommunications industry.

"As the telecommunications industry undergoes fundamental transformation, traditional Telcos must prepare for a new competitive environment that demands greater innovation, faster time to market, responsible investment and new ways of thinking", said Joanne Rohde, Executive Vice President of Verticals Marketing at Red Hat.

He added "Open Source is becoming strategic in Telecom, not only as a means to reduce costs, but as a model to inspire collaboration, inclusion and reuse - and to drive innovation. Today, Red Hat software is routinely deployed in mission-critical Telco IT and Network environments around the world. Through our investment in Mobicents, our alignment with the SCOPE Alliance and strong commitment to standards, we look forward to establishing Red Hat and open source software as fundamental building blocks for the successful Telcom companies of the future."

"Telcos are continuing to increase their migration to integrated platforms and solutions that leverage open source software and industry standard hardware" said Ali Kafel, VP, TELCO, Stratus Technologies. "The ftServer system and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are proving to be popular building blocks for mission-critical and carrier-grade applications throughout the Telco IT and Network environments. Stratus looks forward to continued collaboration with Red Hat to deliver platforms and solutions to this market" he added.