The Cardiff, UK-based company hopes the online network will lead to new products based on its SIP Application Server platform for fixed line and wireless applications and IP Multimedia Service, or IMS, networks.
The goal of the site is really to accelerate application development for commercial deployment, said Ty Wang, Ubiquity senior director of product marketing. We want to connect developers with the service provider interests. They need help to get the word out as to what sort of applications they want.
Bell South, for example, is looking to new IP applications and services, such as integrating instant conference calling into gaming, as well as location-based services, Wang said.
The Ubiquity Developer Network would be an open forum, but a lot of the intellectual property on the site would reside with the developers, Wang said.
Ubiquity also is working with British Telecom, Bell Canada, Hewlett-Packard Co and NetZero, among others, to help spur development on its network, Wang said.
There has been all these disparate, isolated groups building on top of our application server. We’re putting them all into one community now so they can share techniques, et cetera, Wang said.
Ubiquity hopes to see between 15 and 30 new SIP-based applications arise from the network by the end of the year, Wang said. However, he declined to specify the amount of projected revenue pull-through for the company as a result.
