IONA Iona Technologies Adr (MM)

IONA� Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced a collaboration with Aepona, the leading supplier of telecom service layer products and solutions to telecoms globally, to extend Aepona�s Universal Service Platform (USP) to enable customers to integrate their intelligent networks with their business and operational support systems (BSS/OSS). Aepona�s USP family of products, which utilizes IONA�s Artix� family of SOA infrastructure products (see press release), offers customers a Service Delivery Platform to support the rapid roll-out of new Telco 2.0 services across any network. IONA�s solution has allowed Aepona to extend its USP to enable customers to seamlessly integrate their back-end business and Operational Support Systems with their intelligent network layers. A leading European telecommunications company is using the technology to seamlessly route data between its intelligent network applications and their billing applications. By extending Aepona�s USP, customers can reduce the costs and time associated with bringing new intelligent network services to market. �IONA understands the demands of the telecommunications marketplace better than any other integration vendor, they have the expertise from several years of delivering integration solutions that comply with the rapidly changing service demands and technology standards of the telecommunications sector,� said Liam McQuillan, Aepona�s Senior Vice President of Engineering. �We chose IONA�s Artix as a crucial piece of technology for our USP and continue to select them where we need to bridge back-office support applications to modern service delivery platforms. Working with IONA we can continue to deliver the high levels of interoperability and performance our customers demand.� Aepona�s Telecom Web Services Platform, a member of the USP family, recently won the GSMA award for Best Service Delivery Platform at the 2008 Global Mobile Awards. Artix provides critical, standards-based, SOA-enablement capabilities for Aepona�s product which allows telecoms operators to securely publish their network capabilities (communications, information, intelligence) to the outside world as standards-based Web Services. �Telecoms Operators are under constant competitive pressure to deliver more services at lower costs and keep pace with customer demand for combined voice, video and data offerings,� said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA Technologies. �Aepona�s USP, powered by Artix, is fast becoming the Service Delivery Platform of choice for leading global telecommunications companies and we look forward to continuing to work with Aepona to deliver award winning solutions to their customers.� About IONA For more than a decade, IONA� Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix� products. IONA�s Artix�, an advanced SOA infrastructure suite enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The FUSE� family of Open Source products include supported, enterprise releases of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF�and Camel. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, FUSE and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners. About Aepona Aepona provides software products and solutions to Telco�s globally, empowering them to fully participate in the new, collaborative world of Web 2.0 and realize the full potential of their network assets. Aepona's technology provides the crucial bridge between the Web / IT domain and the Telecoms domain, enabling new Telco business models, creating new channels to market and allowing thousands of new high value, composite services to be delivered to a mass market of niche consumers. Aepona�s solutions have been chosen and deployed by Tier 1 Telco�s such as France Telecom, Sprint, Bharti Airtel, Telus, Vimpelcom and KPN. Aepona is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland with its US subsidiary, Aepona Inc., based in Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit www.aepona.com.