Radware becomes a global BEA select partner  
ConvergenceAsia staff
25/03/2008

Radware has announced a global partnership with BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software.

As part of the partnership, Radware, a provider of integrated application delivery solutions, has expanded its support across BEA solutions to answer both IT and network needs of BEA enterprise and carrier customers.

Radware's AppDirector, the company's flagship intelligent application delivery controller (ADC) has been certified with BEA WebLogic Server and across the latest versions of BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family. Products within the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family include BEA WebLogic SIP Server, a carrier-grade, integrated Java EE and SIP application server, and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, a policy enforcement and telecommunications web services platform.

Additionally, as a global BEA partner, Radware will leverage its core competencies in telecommunications networking to offer support for these products.

"The BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family is designed to enable service providers with the ability to leverage the Web, telecommunications and SOA to rapidly create and deliver converged Internet-communication services," said Mike McHugh, vice president, Engineering, Communication Platform Division, BEA Systems.

"Radware's increased activity in the telecommunications space and its core strengths in IT application delivery and security make them a strong partner, providing joint customers increased opportunities to deliver innovative, revenue-generating applications and services in a secure and stable networking environment."

The newly integrated and certified service provider solutions provided by Radware and BEA offer a secured, scalable and highly available platform. It is designed to allow the unparalleled SIP call capacity and performance of BEA WebLogic SIP server through Radware's AppDirector's SIP-aware load-balancing and intelligent traffic distribution, keeping SIP call persistency.

The solution can be further enhanced to higher capacity by the aggregation of additional AppDirector ADC and BEA WebLogic SIP Server nodes, providing unlimited scalability and maximum performance to service providers' SIP services deployments. Radware's AppDirector also provides high availability, performance and security to BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.

"Expanding our partnership with BEA has been a critical step in Radware's partner initiatives; especially in the telecommunications arena where we are expanding product lines and aggressively looking to grow our business," said Yossi Vardi, Vice President Global Business Development, Radware.

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