“SOA can better solve business-related problems than any technologies,” said Marcus Tsoi, vice president and general manager, BEA China. “We are encouraged to see that more and more Chinese customers making SOA their leading framework for the next generation of IT system and SOA has become a powerful engine for the rapid growth of BEA in China. As a leading SOA platform product and service provider, BEA has provided the most unified SOA platform, SOA 360. It is of great help for Chinese users to effectively deploy SOA and flexibly cope with business application demand and has injected huge impetus for the sustainable and high-speed growth of BEA China in the future.”

Year to date, BEA has grown 40 percent in China vs. last year, and according to latest analyst reports, BEA holds the leading application server position in this market (See IDC report titled “Application Service and Integrated Server Platform Market Analysis and Prediction in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) in 2005-2010″). In China middleware market, BEA was ranked No.1 with 28.9 percent market share continuously in Q3, 2006 (See Analysts International report titled “IT Product and Service — Report on 2006 Q3 Middleware Software Market Data”).

China Partners and Customers Deploy SOA Today With SOA 360
BEA attributes ifs rapid growth in China to the company’s leading SOA concept and solutions, innovative technologies and products. Since launch of the BEA AquaLogic product family in mid-2005, the products, along with other BEA products, have seen positive traction with customers in SOA deployment. For example, SinoPec International Prospecting Company (SIPC) has adopted the business information management system which is critical for implementation of BEA AquaLogic. SIPC has 16 functional departments and more than 20 overseas branches around the world, and a highly distributed IT environment. The BEA-based SOA project helped SIPC improve the management and control its data.

Another example of SOA deployment in China is Guizhou Power Grid Information Integration Platform, who in April 2006 went live with a BEA-based SOA solution. The new system integrates data that was distributed on different platforms and application systems, improved decision-making response time and enabled the entire enterprise to easily deploy and upgrade the applications. This improvement enabled the customer to obtain a faster response speed and improved operations.

“BEA SOA solution has better met our demand on data integration and assisted us to cope with the rapidly developing business demand with flexible IT solutions and has provided robust impetus for Guizhou Power Grid’s development,” said Luo Sixi, Director of Security and Production department, Guizhou Power Grid.

Other customers who have selected BEA to develop and deploy SOA solutions include State Administration of Taxation, China Foreign Exchange Trading System, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Post, China Telecom, China Power, China Construction Bank Web application server.

BEA China Excels in Telecommunications and Expands Partner and R&D Investments
In telecommunications, besides maintaining a leading position in such traditional application fields as BSS and OSS, BEA also enters 3G and VoIP fields through cooperation with telecom carriers and network equipment providers and further widens the advantages in telecom field, laying a solid foundation for entering 3G and NGN market in the future. As announced on Dec. 4, 2006, BEA and Huawei Technologies, one of the largest network equipment providers in China, announced the partnership to collaborate in accelerating telecom network operator’s efforts to increase revenue by accelerating the adoption of next-generation telecom networks based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Additionally, BEA unveiled the BEA WebLogic® Conferencing Server, a new product, specifically designed for the Chinese Telecommunications market. BEA WebLogic Conferencing Server runs on BEA WebLogic SIP Server and is designed for IMS implementation for multi-media conference applications, such as voice and video. This product is currently available in China and is designed to help Chinese network operators more quickly develop IMS-NGN services.

BEA also enhanced the company’s partner program in 2006 including launching a value-added distribution. Partners in China include Digitalchina, CS&C, Jade Bird, ECS Technology, etc.

BEA SOA 360 platform is intended to deliver the industry’s most unified Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for business transformation and optimization, in order to help to improve cost structures and to grow new revenue streams. The BEA SOA 360 platform is uniquely architected with the newly unveiled BEA microService Architecture (mSA). The SOA 360 platform spans the three BEA product families — Tuxedo, WebLogic® and AquaLogic — and is supported by the newly previewed SOA collaborative tooling environment, BEA WorkSpace 360. BEA WorkSpace 360 is intended as the industry’s first unified SOA tools to bring business analysts, architects, developers and IT operations professionals into a shared workspace for collaboration and interaction.

About BEAWorld
BEAWorld is the premier event for SOA thought leadership. The conference is designed to provide critical insights, hands on instruction, best practice strategies and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to working to help make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld is the place to find the latest information on BEA’s infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo®, BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic. This year’s show will also include a Partner Showcase, highlighting the latest and most innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community.

The third and final of three worldwide events is scheduled to begin today, December 13 in Beijing. The first two events took place in San Francisco, California and Prague, Czech Republic earlier this Fall.

About BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA’s SOA 360 platform is designed to be the industry’s most unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization, by helping to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy(TM) can be found at bea.com .

Kieran Dalton from Aepona said: “By enabling our Parlay OSA Gateway and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper to work together, we can provide many advantages for our customers. They can now use both the telecom network integration capabilities of the Aepona product while taking advantage of BEA’s focus on Web Services policy control. This can help improve customers’ ability to provide managed exposure of telecom network capabilities and can extend their networks’ reach to a broader set of applications.

The two companies have successfully completed interoperability testing between Aepona Parlay OSA Gateway and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper™, a standards-based service access and partner relationship management product. With the completion of this interoperability testing, Aepona and BEA are solidifying their partnership by providing products that can be used for an integrated telecom network solution. Network operators can now feel confident that Aepona’s and BEA’s joint offering is designed to interoperate out of-the-box across telecom services.

“The partnership between BEA and Aepona has resulted in tangible benefits for all involved. Making our two products interoperable can strengthen our place in the market and help to ensure that our customers really can have it all,” said Dalton.

“In today’s competitive environment, customers are looking for flexible, off-the-shelf products that can leverage existing network assets and can help drive increased subscriber revenue,” said Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform. “The combination of BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper and Aepona Parlay OSA Gateway is designed to deliver customers policy secured web services with robust network integration capabilities, further merging network and IT technologies to offer robust telecom service access solutions.”

Aepona’s OSA Gateway provides an abstract view of a telecommunications network and allows individual capabilities to be exploited through a standard Java API. Built using a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Aepona’s gateway offers a service capability view of the network and provides a future-proof framework for a new generation of applications and services.

BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper is the telecommunications industry’s only carrier-grade, standards-based platform designed to integrate policy enforcement, Telecom Web Services, and third party partner management. BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper 2.2, the latest version unveiled in June 2006 is designed to deliver new Telecom Web Services and native network application interfaces that can help network operators increase revenue from new, third-party services. With this product, BEA can help network operators safely expose their network assets to developers through an SOA-based architecture, using Telecom Web Services that can implement a range of capabilities such as call routing, text messaging, and billing. This network access, in turn, can help operators increase revenue from both new messaging and location-based services, as well as services from existing legacy networks.

BEA Systems and Aepona continue to work together on targeted customer engagements using the wide range of products and services within their portfolios. For more information about BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, and the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit http://bea.com/gatekeeper and http://bea.com/wlcom, respectively.

About Aepona
Aepona’s products and services deliver next generation applications to communications services providers today and as they transition to next generation networks such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The company is headquartered in Northern Ireland with offices worldwide.

Aepona has been chosen by blue chip operators, such as Orange, Sprint Nextel, E-Plus, VimpelCom and Bridge Mobile Alliance in Asia for applications and Web services solutions using Aepona’s products and services.

As part of Aepona’s belief in a service layer-driven evolution to IMS, Aepona’s open architecture protects operators’ investment in legacy networks while migrating to an IMS platform. Customer services are hosted in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) environment yet delivered through the existing legacy network, giving customers the best of both worlds.

Demonstrations in the BEA booth are scheduled to include the following examples of innovative new services which have been developed and deployed on the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform(TM) product family, including BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper(TM), and BEA WebLogic SIP Server(TM), the industry’s first converged Java EE and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server providing native support for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):

- Karaoke Powered by HP and BEA

Unleash your inner rock star with this exciting demonstration designed to illustrate the power of HP OpenCall Media Platform (OCMP) and BEA WebLogic SIP Server running on Intel AdvancedTCA hardware designed to enable fun, new services in an IMS or pre-IMS environment. Record a song, then share with your friends. Multiple users may register their karaoke recordings, and then any number of users may listen and vote on the best recording. The system is designed to allow for the creation of competitions where contestants can register and be judged by others.

- Mobile Content Delivery Solution Powered by Dual-Core Intel® Xeon®

Processor 5100 series (Previously Codenamed “Woodcrest”), Featuring

MobileAware and Other Partners
This solution is designed to leverage BEA WebLogic Portal(TM), BEA WebLogic Server(TM), BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper(TM), BEA WebLogic Mobility Server (TM), BEA JRockit, MobileAware’s Fulfillment Manager Download Server and other partner technologies for rendering the mobile portal and downloading digital content to a wide range of mobile devices. In this demonstration, the end user can discover online and downloadable content such as audio, video and games from their mobile device. Once a content item is selected, a reference to the content can be pushed to the device, initiating the download of the content to the mobile device and the associated authorization and billing process.

Network operations can effectively manage content and ongoing campaigns to increase ARPU through an SOA-based Mobile Content Delivery Solution powered by Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 series based servers. This is designed to provide network operators a highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective infrastructure to deploy enhanced services. This demonstration shows an operator’s view of the content activity in their network via portal, laptop, or mobile device. Additionally, it can illustrate online monitoring of campaigns, uptime, traffic flow, usage/activity reports for third party content developers, and real-time assessment of campaigns.

- Presence Enabled Video/Audio Conferencing featuring IMS Stream

See how innovative IMS services can be implemented on BEA WebLogic SIP Server, such as voice and video conferencing, and learn how leveraging presence capabilities can help improve customer service and employee productivity.

- IMS prepaid solution featuring Ericpol Telecom

Experience how IMS prepaid for both residential and business markets can be powered by BEA WebLogic SIP Server and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus. Demonstration is designed to feature provisioning of prepaid multimedia and multi-session features for a user and service delivery or termination based on prepaid constrains. Services can be provisioned with different charging options that impact service delivery. Learn about event-based charging and see how hotels can deliver IMS Video On Demand. The system is designed to help increase revenue and help lower customer relationship management costs to operators at the same time delivering a solution designed to provide the ability to better manage budgets to end users.

For additional information about BEA in Telecommunications, visit http://bea.com/telco, and for more information about BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit: http://bea.com/wlcom .

About BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA delivers the unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy(TM) can be found at bea.com. BEA, Built on BEA, Jolt, Joltbeans, Steelthread, Top End, Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA AquaLogic, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA dev2dev Subscriptions, BEA eLink, BEA MessageQ, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA WebLogic JDriver, BEA WebLogic Log Central, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA JRockit, BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA WebLogic WorkGroup Edition, and BEA WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support is a service mark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.

The Chinese telecommunications industry is growing at a rapid pace. According to the Chinese Information Industry Ministry, Chinese telecommunications industry revenues are growing at a rate of 10.2% and are expected to reach to 639 billion RMB (approximately US$80 billion) in 2006. The number of telephone users is expected to increase by 78 million, bringing the total number to 820 million. The total investment on capital assets is expected be 200 billion RMB (approximately US$25 billion). Facing increasing competition, industry consolidation and declining voice revenues, telecom operators throughout China are investing in standards-based, flexible IT infrastructures to take advantage of 3G networks to rapidly bring new and innovative next-generation services to their customers.

To address this high growth market, BEA has launched the BEA Telecommunications Technology Centre in China. The TTC is responsible for extending the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products, which include BEA WebLogic SIP Server and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, to include customised adapters, protocols and other technologies to help meet the specific requirements of Chinese telecom network operators. Furthermore, the TTC is collaborating with the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product group and local partners to develop application components to help system integrators and ISV speed application deployment and time to market.

“The Chinese telecom market is exploding and the opportunities for growth are endless,” said Yip Ly, general manager, BEA Telecommunications Technology Centre and Asia Pacific Vice President Strategic Business, BEA Systems. “BEA has established the Telecommunications Technology Centre to help communications service providers capitalise on next-generation service delivery opportunities and better address customers’ needs. The TTC, coupled with our communications infrastructure technology and years of telecom industry experience brings a valuable set of resources to the telecom network operators in this region.”

Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems continued, “The development of BEA’s first Telecommunications Technology Centre in China marks a significant milestone in BEA’s telecommunications strategy – and further solidifies BEA’s commitment to and extends its leadership in the telecom market in Asia. As the tremendous innovation and activity continues in this region, we are investing in the TTC to help our telecom customers transform their businesses to gain competitive advantage, increase revenues and bring new services to market. We have designed the TTC to become a ‘best practice’ for future BEA centres around the world.”

BEA has long been a leader in software for the global telecommunications industry with all of the Global 50 telco operators running portions of their OSS (Operational Support Systems) business on BEA software. BEA has numerous customers in China including China Mobile and China Unicom. Coupled with an extensive partner ecosystem and innovative products including BEA Tuxedo and the BEA WebLogic, BEA AquaLogic and BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product families, the TTC is designed to help existing and future customers capitalise on emerging next-generation communication network architectures based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom Web Services, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

The Chinese telecommunications industry is growing at a rapid pace. According to the Chinese Information Industry Ministry, Chinese telecommunications industry revenues are growing at a rate of 10.2% and are expected to reach to 639 billion RMB (approximately $80 billion USD) in 2006. The number of telephone users is expected to increase by 78 million, bringing the total number to 820 million. The total investment on capital assets is expected be 200 billion RMB (approximately $25 billion USD). Facing increasing competition, industry consolidation and declining voice revenues, telecom operators throughout China are investing in standards-based, flexible IT infrastructures to take advantage of 3G networks to rapidly bring new and innovative next-generation services to their customers.

To address this high growth market, BEA has launched the BEA Telecommunications Technology Center in China. The TTC is responsible for extending the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products, which include BEA WebLogic SIP Server(TM) and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper(TM), to include customized adapters, protocols and other technologies to help meet the specific requirements of Chinese telecom network operators. Furthermore, the TTC is collaborating with the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product group and local partners to develop application components to help system integrators and ISV speed application deployment and time to market.

“The Chinese telecom market is exploding and the opportunities for growth are endless,” said Yip Ly, general manager, BEA Telecommunications Technology Center and Asia Pacific Vice President Strategic Business, BEA Systems. “BEA has established the Telecommunications Technology Center to help communications service providers capitalize on next-generation service delivery opportunities and better address customers’ needs. The TTC, coupled with our communications infrastructure technology and years of telecom industry experience brings a valuable set of resources to the telecom network operators in this region.”

Mike McHugh, vice president and general manager, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA Systems continued, “The development of BEA’s first Telecommunications Technology Center in China marks a significant milestone in BEA’s telecommunications strategy — and further solidifies BEA’s commitment to and extends its leadership in the telecom market in Asia. As the tremendous innovation and activity continues in this region, we are investing in the TTC to help our telecom customers transform their businesses to gain competitive advantage, increase revenues and bring new services to market. We have designed the TTC to become a ‘best practice’ for future BEA centers around the world.”

BEA has long been a leader in software for the global telecommunications industry with all of the Global 50 telco operators running portions of their OSS (Operational Support Systems) business on BEA software. BEA has numerous customers in China including China Mobile and China Unicom. Coupled with an extensive partner ecosystem and innovative products including BEA Tuxedo® and the BEA WebLogic(TM), BEA AquaLogic(TM) and BEA WebLogic Communications Platform(TM) product families, the TTC is designed to help existing and future customers capitalize on emerging next-generation communication network architectures based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom Web Services, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

BEA Scheduled to Showcase Innovative Technology at CTIA Wireless 2006

BEA Systems is scheduled to showcase innovative telecommunications technology at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas, April 5th – 7th, 2006. Come visit the BEA booth #4569 to see several pioneering demonstrations of BEA and partner technologies, and learn about BEA’s work in the telecommunications industry.

For more information on BEA in Telecommunications, including the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, please visit, www.bea.com/telco.

About BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines — WebLogic®, Tuxedo®, JRockit®, and the new AquaLogic(TM) family of Service Infrastructure — help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information, please visit bea.com.

NOTE: BEA, Built on BEA, Jolt, Joltbeans, Steelthread, Top End, Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA AquaLogic, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA dev2dev Subscriptions, BEA eLink, BEA MessageQ, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA WebLogic JDriver, BEA WebLogic Log Central, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA JRockit, BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA WebLogic WorkGroup Edition, and BEA WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support is a service mark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.