14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat, Inc.(best known for its enterprise-class operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.), one of the largest companies dedicated to open source software, has recently adopted the Mobicents technology according to its future plans of expanding to the telecom market.
Mobicents is an Open Source VoIP Platform fully certified for JSLEE 1.0 compliance. It is actually the first open source platform to receive the respective certification. It also implements some of the proposed JAIN SLEE 1.1 features and it compliments J2EE to enable convergence of voice, video and data in next generation intelligent applications. Mobicent can also be seen as a scalable event-driven application server with a fault-tolerant execution environment. The event driven architecture is suitable for financial trading, online gaming, sensor network integration (RFID) and distributed control.
By adopting Mobicents, Red Hat aims to add a Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE) to the Linux firm's portfolio. Red Hat created the Red Hat/JBoss Communications Platform for the telecommunications industry out of the combination of the Jboss and Mobicents middleware offering. Some Red Hat officials also said that they intend to develop a communications platform, which would integrate Mobicents with the broader Red Hat middleware offerings.
Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner, states:
"JSLEE is an important emerging industry standard for event-driven architecture that is gaining its early traction in the telecoms industry. ... An open source offering in this space extends the available options for users looking into event-driven computing and architecture.".