Nokia Licenses Distra Technology

12 Jun 2005

Distra Pty Ltd today announced that Nokia has licensed its technology for use in its suite of products for 3G networks. The first operational system is live and being used by a network operator in Australia. The system amongst other functions takes advantage of Distra’s “Mission Critical Application Server” (MCAS) to provide fault-tolerant message passing on commodity platforms, high-speed database streaming, distributed database replication, alarms, and increased availability.

The system is scaleable, having been designed to meet the operator’s present and future requirements and was implemented at minimal cost. It is based on open industry standards – Java, XML and a standard SQL database.

Ms Susanne Stenberg, Nokia’s Manager of System Integration in the Pacific said, “We chose Distra and its technology because of the flexibility of its platform in providing a highly available/reliable solution, in conjunction with reduced time to market with development.

We have been very pleased with the result and hope to replicate this project with other operators globally. We will definitely consider Distra for other solutions.”

The use of open, high performance systems built on inexpensive platforms is increasingly common in telecommunications, banking and trading. All face the problem of increased volumes, closer regulatory scrutiny and access to real-time transaction data whilst improving the confidence and trust of the user community.

“We are very pleased to be working with Nokia and in their choice of our technology. The timing is right for a change to open, contemporary solutions to provide the flexibility and speed to market for new business models and approaches, in an increasingly competitive market”, states Mike Aston, Distra CEO. “Our approach sets the scene for driving out significant costs in transaction processing and improving business agility without compromising on fault-tolerance.

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