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Red Hat works with a wide range of software and hardware partners to deliver Integrated platforms and solutions to NEPs and Operators.
Red Hat's unique value is to deliver platforms and solutions based on open source software and industry hardware that are cost effective, flexible, and enable faster innovation and quicker time to market. These platforms and solutions are carrier-grade quality, proven and predictable in mission-critical Enterprise and Telecom environments.
The Red Hat approach to ISV certification is two pronged: (1) to streamline certification for a wide range of small and large companies (2) and to target a smaller number of strategic ISV partners for advanced partnership to include joint engineering and go-to-market programs
Red Hat focuses on six segments within the Telecom market. This focus reflects the continued industry movement toward IP based networks and also acknowledges the potential of more mature market segments like OSS/BSS.
New and emerging segments like IMS/SDP, IPTV and VoIP are ideal candidates to be deployed on open platforms, while the more entrenched segments are historically proprietary-Unix based that require migration strategies
Red Hat provides a single set of software products that support both the Enterprise and Telecommunications markets. In the Enterprise, Red Hat software sets the standard for Linux in mission-critical environments. In Telecom, Red Hat software is routinely deployed in mission-critical and carrier-grade environments and its footprint extends from the IT Data Center to the Network and into various devices and solutions sold by NEPs to Operators.
To Red Hat, the definition of carrier-grade or mission-critical extends way beyond software features. Carrier-grade solution providers must have global reach, offer world class support and services, support a rich ecosystem of hardware and software vendors and have a proven track record of success and commercial viability
Red Hat is now a member of the SCOPE Alliance, and actively participates in the definition and prioritization of next generation carrier-grade operating system and middleware requirements
Telecom customers utilize a range of enterprise and Telecom hardware platforms. Through its self certification process for hardware vendors, Red Hat now has over 1000 hardware platforms certified. This includes a subset of Telecom specific platforms including carrier-grade, NEBS compliant and ATCA blade systems.
By certifying both enterprise and Telco hardware platforms, customers can have their choice of hardware with the reassurance that whichever certified platform they choose, it will be fully endorsed and supported by Red Hat
The integrated platforms that Red Hat and partners bring to market often include coordinated service offerings to simplify customer installation and deployment and ensure that support and maintenance are delivered in an integrated and seamless fashion.
Email telco@redhat.com for more information.