OpenCloud
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OpenCloud was founded in 2000 in Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

, NZ
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 to create JAIN SLEE
JSLEE
A Service Logic Execution Environment is a well known concept in the telecommunications industry. A SLEE is a high throughput, low latency event processing application environment...

 standards-based Java software products for the telecom service layer
Service layer
In intelligent networks and cellular networks, service layer is a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture. It aims at providing middleware that serves third-party value-added services and applications at a higher application layer...

. OpenCloud is now incorporated in UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 as a privately-held telecommunications software product company and is headquartered in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.

OpenCloud is a member of the Expert Group and the Specification Lead for JSR
JSR
JSR may refer to:*Java Specification Request, in computing*Joint spectral radius, in mathematics*Jet Set Radio, a video game*The Journal of Sex Research*Java Specification Request, a proposal made in the Java Community Process...

 22 JAIN SLEE 1.0
JSLEE
A Service Logic Execution Environment is a well known concept in the telecommunications industry. A SLEE is a high throughput, low latency event processing application environment...

 and 240 JAIN SLEE 1.1
JSLEE
A Service Logic Execution Environment is a well known concept in the telecommunications industry. A SLEE is a high throughput, low latency event processing application environment...

 within the Java Community Process
Java Community Process
The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1998, is a formalized process that allows interested parties to get involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform....

. OpenCloud implements these standards in its telecom service layer products to provide products that bridge the SS7 circuit-switched and IP packet-switched
Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...

 telecom networks.

OpenCloud is a founder member and steering committee member of the Service Broker Forum

OpenCloud has offices in:
  • Wellington, New Zealand (Research, Development and Support);
  • Jakarta, Indonesia (Sales, Marketing and Professional Services);
  • Singapore (Sales, Marketing and Professional Services);
  • Madrid, Spain (Sales, Marketing, Professional Services and Support)

The company has received investment from its employees, shareholders and institutional investors; No. 8 Ventures, Advent Venture Partners and NSN
Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks is a global data networking and telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It is a joint venture between Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany...

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Products

OpenCloud's next-generation intelligent network
Intelligent network
The Intelligent Network , is the standard network architecture specified in the . It is intended for fixed as well as mobile telecom networks...

 (NGIN) signaling products are:
  • Rhino Telecom Application Server – a JAIN SLEE
    JSLEE
    A Service Logic Execution Environment is a well known concept in the telecommunications industry. A SLEE is a high throughput, low latency event processing application environment...

     Telecom Application Server;
  • Rhino Service Interaction Server – a Telecom Service Broker;
  • Rhino Charging Sentinel – session control for real-time convergent charging systems.

Services

OpenCloud provides a range of professional services to support the delivery, commissioning and live system support of Rhino-based NGIN solutions.

Customers and Vertical Markets

OpenCloud supplies its products to leading fixed and mobile telecommunications operators as well as other equipment manufacturers (oem).

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