3GSM World Congress, Cannes - France - February 17, 2002 - Sun Microsystems(TM) and Nokia today announced they have signed an agreement on digital content delivery for wireless applications and services. Sun Services(tm) will resell the Nokia Delivery Server as part of Sun's new Data Service Delivery Framework (DSDF) to service providers and operators.
The foundation of the joint solution lies in Sun Services' DSDF and server technology coupled with Nokia's unrivalled expertise in mobile server software solutions. The DSDF solution combines its strengths in messaging and identity software and its Java(tm) provisioning vision, all based around its ground-breaking software stack, Sun ONE. The Nokia Delivery Server manages business rules for content download, fetches content from a storage system and delivers it reliably to a mobile phone. It is a software server product designed to enable wireless operators and service providers to offer and create revenue opportunities with content download services, based on Java(tm) and Symbian application downloads to mobile devices.
The Sun solution with Nokia'a delivery server software will be sold and marketed to wireless service providers through Sun's new Wireless Solution Centres globally. Also, Sun will provide support and integration through its worldwide Sun Services network.
"There is a strong demand from both operators and corporate customers for mobile content downloading solutions, such as Nokia Delivery Server, that are based on common and open industry standards," said Timo Poikolainen, vice president, marketing, Nokia Mobile Software. "We are happy to work together with Sun and incorporate the key strengths both parties have in their respective markets and spheres of influence. "
The collaboration between the two companies will offer service providers a viable end-to-end delivery mechanism for a wide variety of downloadable and browsing content, on a single platform. This will also make deployment of new services easy and attractive for content providers, with speed to market being a key differentiator in the market.
Peter Cunningham, VP, Sun Microsystems said, "Currently, operators have to integrate a range of solutions for the different types of content that people want to access on their mobile devices, from ring tones and logos to WAP and Java(tm). The new service delivery solution from Sun and Nokia provides one platform upon which to deliver any type of content, to counteract the 'stove-pipe' syndrome."
The agreement will incorporate elements of Sun's 'vending machine' vision, that provides a foundation for using and sharing Java(tm)-based and other digital content. The fact that Sun champions open standards in relation to digital content provisioning makes it one of the most flexible easy-to-integrate solutions available to the wireless industry.
Sun's DSDF is designed to span products and architecture, as well as services. It enables a marketplace, where developers can promote new data services to end-users keen to access a wide range of rich and exciting services and content. This will, in turn, present a substantial revenue opportunity for operators looking to capitalise on the next generation of data services that are currently being developed.
The selling package combined with Nokia's solution marks a new mode of engagement with the wireless industry for Sun. Now the company will bring together its own expertise, combined with the market leaders in their respective fields to deliver compelling fully rounded solutions.
Peter Cunningham concludes: "This agreement reinforces Sun's position as one of the leading platform infrastructure system integrators for the wireless industry. The solution that we have developed with Nokia is part of a wider strategy to offer a suite of solutions to respond to the rapidly developing needs of this fast-moving industry."
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