Oracle and ZTE Extend Alliance To Market And Develop IP-based communications services.

BEIJING, China, April 21, 2008 - Oracle and ZTE today announced that they have extended their alliance in connection with the marketing and development of service delivery platform (SDP) offerings in China and globally.

Oracle is the global #1 communications software vendor and ZTE is a leading global provider of communications equipment and network solutions. Demonstrating its strong enabler capabilities, ZTE is already a supplier of unified software platform to application providers, offering a strong management portal to provide flexible and complete access to applications, as well as asset management functionalities. Oracle and ZTE will leverage their complementary strengths in communications and enterprise software to collaborate in the development of an SDP blueprint and proof-of-concept. Both parties will work with additional partners to enrich the total SDP solution.

The current Oracle® Service Delivery Platform (SDP) offering is an extremely comprehensive, standards based software environment for creating new IP-based communications services. Oracle SDP extends the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products to include a J2EE and SOA-based development and deployment environment designed to streamline the introduction of new communications services such as VoIP, IMS and software-based telephony services. A key component of Oracle's SDP solution is the Oracle Communication and Mobility Server, which provides the underlying software infrastructure and services that make a host of carrier-grade telephony and multi-media services possible using cost-effective, high-volume hardware components.

By using carrier-grade J2EE as its basis for the Service Delivery Platform, the Oracle-ZTE SDP blueprint will enable a standards-based environment for the design, development, deployment, and management of services that lie at the heart of IT and network convergence. The Oracle-ZTE SDP offering will help support the full life cycle of next-generation data services, starting from design and development all the way through deployment, management and service upgrades.

Communications and information technologies are rapidly converging. Confronted with huge infrastructure costs, communications service providers need to develop new high value services faster to recoup their investments. At the same time, they have to deal with eroding revenue streams from traditional services such as voice, and overcome fierce market competition. It is essential to be able to rationalize the service provider's environment to build, deploy and manage services as well as facilitate the development of new attractive services by third-party partner service providers. The SDP development between Oracle and ZTE will help future-proof the infrastructure investment made by the communications service provider.

Chen Jie, Senior Vice President of ZTE, said, "ZTE places great emphasis on SDP as a key strategic solution. In future, all ZTE's products will be developed on the SDP architecture. The collaboration with Oracle will help allow mutual sharing of development, sales and marketing resources, and make our products more competitive globally. Both Oracle and ZTE will be able to replicate joint successes globally to enhance future revenue potential. We believe this effort will also help more communications service providers go to market quickly with comprehensive services, quicken cost recovery and returns on their infrastructure investments."

Dr Li Weiming, Vice President of Japan and Asia Pacific, Oracle Communications, said, "Communications service providers face upward pressure and complex challenges as they seek to rapidly launch and profit from IP services. Oracle and ZTE aim to provide and arm service providers worldwide with a common open, and standards-based platform upon which they can build new IP services as well as transition traditional non-IP services. This flexibility will allow a quantum leap in time to market and help reduce operational costs."

Stanley Chew, Vice President, Technology Sales for Greater China, Oracle, said, "ZTE has been a key strategic Oracle partner leveraging our technology products for the past several years. The signing of the Strategic SDP Collaboration Agreement is yet another significant milestone and represents the commitment of both Oracle and ZTE to further our partnership with the goal of improving our value proposition to the Communications market. Oracle is looking forward to achieving SDP success with ZTE in China and on a global basis.

Media Contact:
Margrete Ma
ZTE Corporation
Tel: +86 755 26775207
Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

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