BEA Systems Monday will unveil a new software platform that lets communications providers use Web services to improve the way they serve customers, internetnews.com has learned.
The BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper will help developers write software that facilitates safe messaging, calling and billing services, according to a document obtained by internetnews.com.
"The product provides a single point of entry into the network to define and enforce policies for accessing key network enablers, such as user status, user location, and short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS)," according to the document.
At a launch event introducing the product in February, BEA CTO Mark Carges called the Gatekeeper a kind of "traffic cop" designed to guard network resources, allowing carriers to manage access for network resources by enforcing user access policies.
The idea of the platform is to help service providers offer Voice over IP (VoIP) and RFID services.
