Roamware partners with Sun Microsystems

SAN JOSE, USA: Roamware Inc., a provider in mobile roaming software and solutions, and Sun Microsystems, developer of technologies and systems, announced on Wednesday that they have entered into a joint partnership.

The partnership will process more than 80 per cent of India’s international roaming traffic - providing seamless roaming solutions to most of the country’s leading mobile service operators.

Roamware and Sun Microsystems have partnered in more than 140 countries to provide roaming solutions to mobile service providers, said a press release.

The essence of this partnership is to deploy Roamware solutions on the Sun platforms, where Sun is the hardware provider for Roamware product solutions such as Roaming Replicator which enables telecom operators to provide international prepaid roaming.

The partnership also manifests in the extensive performance testing of Roamware solutions in Sun labs, which helps in optimizing Roamware solutions for Sun’s hardware resulting in more efficient solutions for their customers.

Rajneesh Kapur, general manager – SAARC, CIS and Africa, Roamware said, “Coping with the speed of growth and the scale of the demands in India has been a challenge but, working in partnership, Roamware and Sun have delivered availability, reliability and coverage to satisfy clients across the sub-continent.”

“The synergy delivered by this partnership is clearly demonstrated by the fact that we jointly process an estimated 80 per cent of the Indian roaming traffic. Roaming, while a lucrative business segment within the telecom operators is still an unsaturated market, and hence an emerging segment which offers huge potential,” said Swapan Dutta, director -Alliance, Developer Relations and TeleWeb Sales, Sun Microsystems India.

He added that Sun’s network computing infrastructure, combined with Roamware’s applications, has helped operators provide high levels of service and derive operational efficiency. Sun enjoys a high rate of success in the Indian telecom market, and this partnership further amplifies their leadership position in this segment, the release added.