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Ericsson Review

Ericsson Telecom Server Platform 4

Written by: Victor Ferraro-Esparza, Michael Gudmandsen and Kristofer Olsson

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The marriage of telecommunications and the Internet puts new requirements on equipment. Customers have come to expect the same quality of service as they get from present-day telecommunications networks. At the same time, they expect new services in the multimedia and services domain.

We know from experience that modern telecommunications systems are extremely reliable and provide real-time responses. This level of reliability and response cannot currently be achieved using technologies in the Internet domain. On the other hand, the Internet is far richer in terms of content, where pictures (still and moving) are part of today's experience.

In an ideal world we would reuse technologies from the data communications industry and combine them with those from telecommunications systems. With the Telecom Server Platform 4, Ericsson has taken a giant step in this direction, combining its know-how and experience of telecommunications, reliable systems, and scalable systems with open technologies, such as Linux, CORBA, SNMP, LDAP and other standards, such as cPCI and de facto standards. The result is a carrier-class server which is always on, scalable, and open, and which adds value for Ericsson's customers.

Ericsson Review no. 1, 2002 described the Ericsson IP Multimedia solution and the role the Telecom Server Platform plays in this domain. The Telecom Server Platform also plays an important role in delivering services. In this article, the authors describe the Ericsson Telecom Server Platform 4 in greater detail. They also briefly describe the service network framework and give some examples of applications in the services domain.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 03, 2002]