Unisys Selects AppTrigger to Power its Application Session Controller
Strategic partnership with AppTrigger to enable service providers to provide seamless voice and video application delivery along the path to IMS.
RICHARDSON, Texas — November 5, 2007 — AppTrigger, Inc., a leading developer of application connectivity solutions for the telecom marketplace, today announced that the company has been chosen by Unisys to be the featured technology partner in its upcoming Application Session Controller (ASC) product release. With this collaboration, AppTrigger’s core technology will power the Unisys ASC, a highly scalable, carrier grade network element that enables IMS, VoIP, and legacy intelligent network (IN) applications to be resistant from the changes in converging networks. The Unisys Application Session Controller provides Unisys’s 150m+ customers the ability to seamlessly migrate and modernize their existing Unisys network platforms.
With this announcement, Unisys extends its commitment to innovation by providing its customers with a more cost-effective and future-proof application connectivity solution which will aid to eliminate the current application stovepipe challenges faced by the service provider marketplace today. This allows service providers to leverage their current investments while extending the life of existing applications. The Unisys ASC leverages AppTrigger’s powerful IN-SCS functionality to enable service providers to bridge the gap by allowing their existing voice centric IN applications such as pre-paid and voice messaging are able to work within the IMS networks. The Application Session Controller allows service providers to avoid the need to replace these IN applications allowing for dramatic CAPEX savings.
“As service providers begin migrating their services to next generation networks, there is an increasing need to preserve their application investments while extending additional cutting edge services to their customers,” said Glenn James, President of Unisys Global Communications & Media Industries. “Unisys is adopting innovative core technology by AppTrigger to augment and enhance our portfolio, thus providing immediate opportunities for our customers to modernize the network layer with the introduction of the Unisys Application Session Controller.”
AppTrigger’s core technology will enable Unisys customers to overcome application connectivity challenges. Key benefits include:
- New Applications and Mash-ups – Multi-network session control capabilities to help eliminate stove pipes and modular architecture, reducing OPEX and speeding time to market for new applications and mash-ups.
- SIP Modernization – Upgrades SIP capabilities for existing Unisys Communications Media Module (CMM) customers, enabling greater scale and reliability while providing the foundation for next-generation network interfaces.
- Application Migration –- Provides any-to-any application integration into the network, enabling full legacy-to-IMS and IMS-to-legacy application connectivity.
“Together, we will enable service providers to solve the problems created by converging networks and their impact on applications and deployment cycles. The Unisys ASC will help their customers preserve their application investments as they modernize their networks and transition to IMS,” stated Chris Todd, President and CEO of AppTrigger. “We’re excited to work with Unisys whose strengths include innovative thinking and solutions. Oftentimes technology companies ask their customers to adapt to them. The result of this collaboration is a solution that is adapting to the customer’s needs.”
The alliance between Unisys and AppTrigger is another proof point of the market need for Application Session Controllers. “The Application Session Controller is an important tool for service providers. It lowers costs, preserves existing investments, increases ARPU, and provides application transparency for evolving networks, including IMS,” explained Robert Rosenberg, President of Insight Research.
The Unisys Application Session Controller is scheduled to begin shipping later this year.
About AppTrigger, Inc.
With over 30 deployments worldwide, AppTrigger is dynamically changing the telecom application delivery marketplace by empowering its customers to insulate their revenue-producing applications from the challenges of the ever evolving fixed-line, mobile, and IP networks. AppTrigger’s Application Session Controller provides a purpose built unique combination of media, signaling, call control, and a family of APIs for multi-network, converged application deployments. In an environment of ongoing network evolution, AppTrigger delivers time to market advantages, reduces application deployment costs, and provides feature transparency across disparate networks. For more information, please visit www.apptrigger.com.
About Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations.
