Red hat expands telecommunication solutions

BANGALORE: Red

Hat today announced its newly created Telecommunications Partner Program (TPP)

to drive awareness and adoption of carrier-grade server platforms and solutions

based on industry-standard hardware and Red Hat software.

The TPP will deepen Red Hat's relationships with leading network equipment

providers (NEPs), OEMs, telecommunications

ISVs and operators, and will package Red Hat's new and existing capabilities

into an integrated platform that can be easily leveraged across the telecommunications

ecosystem.

The Telecommunications Partner Program is designed to align Red Hat with

other equipment providers and develop common strategies, programs and product

roadmaps for a smooth migration to open source platforms. There are also plans

to drive awareness of the open platforms value proposition, aimed at operators,

service providers, carriers and their associated system integrators.

Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing and general manager

of Enterprise

Products, Red Hat, said, "The TPP brings together members of the

telecommunications ecosystem to accelerate the delivery of reliable,

high-performance solutions that substantially reduce capital cost and operating

expenses for service providers."

"Our strong partnerships with the hardware OEMs, NEPs and the ISV

community are helping to drive our range of software deeper into the network

data center," he added.   

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