Sun Partner Advantage Program
for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

Sun PA Testimonial: Personeta

Converged Service Creation Made EZ
- Personeta uses Sun's EZQual Virtual Lab (EZQual) offering to test converged communication services and experiment with Solaris Zones technology.

Personeta is the leading provider of converged communication solutions. The company's flagship product, TappS NSC, is a standards-based service creation and execution platform that cuts the cost and implementation timeframes of converged services. Service providers worldwide are using it to deliver a new breed of converged communication services over legacy and packet-based infrastructures.

Recently, Personeta took advantage of the EZQual offering, an entitlement available through the Sun Partner Advantage Program. EZQual is a secure, remote on-line lab with a preconfigured development environment for UltraSPARC and other processor architectures. Using EZQual, partners can develop, test, and qualify their applications on the Solaris OS. This helps eliminate many of the traditional stumbling blocks associated with the porting process: there are no system configuration issues, no problems with lab space, no concerns about power requirements?and no cost.

EZQual is a great option for running long-term stability tests. Sun allocated four EZQual servers for our use, and that freed up our in-house testing equipment for other purposes. After the setup was completed we ran a set of tests for about two weeks, and we identified three previously unknown bugs in our product.
— Amir Harel, Spokesman for Personeta

According to Mr. Harel, Personeta also used EZQual to get acquainted with Solaris Zones, a virtualization feature that is part of the Solaris 10 OS, and subsequently used Solaris Zones to expand the capabilities of its TappS NSC product. "Sun was very responsive in helping us get the environment up and running," he said.

With EZQual, Personeta can now focus on creating new converged services - rather than worrying about back-end testing infrastructure.

About EZQual

The EZQual virtual online lab provides firewall-protected access to a broad spectrum of software on Sun's x86 and SPARC servers, including:

  • Solaris 10 OS
  • OpenSolaris
  • Sun Studio
  • Java Platform, Standard Edition
  • Sun's Cool Stack
  • MySQL

EZQual participants can use all of these resources free of charge or install additional software (source code and binary code), provided they are the owner or authorized licensee and do not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

Sign Up Today

The EZQual offering is available worldwide to all Sun Partners at the Associate level and above and is subject to availability and approval. To sign up:

  • Register at the Sun Partner Advantage Program Membership Center
  • If you're an existing Associate level partner or above:
    • Use the login box at the right to access the Membership Center
    • Follow the 'EZQual Virtual Lab Environment' link under the 'Technology and Products' tab