IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new and enhanced products to help telecommunications carriers, equipment providers and application developers take advantage of service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to help them more rapidly and affordably create, deploy and manage voice, video and data services.
Building on its SOA leadership and telecommunications industry expertise, IBM is enhancing its existing software portfolio to help service providers enable flexible, standards-compliant service platforms that support the delivery of IP-based services. Service providers are also taking advantage of IBM's SOA approach to transform previously siloed network infrastructure investments into reusable services that can easily interoperate using industry standards.