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Ericsson have released a new version of their Service Development Studio (SDS). The Ericsson SDS is the only fully comprehensive tool for development and end-to-end testing of both the client and server side of new IMS-based applications. It is based on the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and contains for example the following components:

Wizards, templates and visual network display
IMS Client Platform (ICP), with pre-JSR 281 and IMS Service APIs
Symbian device emulator
Standards based SIP-Server emulator
Standards based IMS Core network emulator
Standards based IMS Communication Services enabler emulators (Presence, Group Manager, Push-to-Talk, IMS Messaging)
Documentation integrated with help system in Eclipse.

An 60 days evaluation version of SDS 4.0 is available for download below.

SDS 4.0 (zip) Size: 500 MB

Intel SIPp IMS/NGN Performance Benchmarking Tool

IMS Bench SIPp is a performance testing and benchmarking toolset designed to provide an implementation of a test system conforming to the IMS Performance Benchmark specification, ETSI TS 186 008. It is a modified version of SIPp with supporting scenario files and a few tools meant to provide an open source implementation of a test system.

The modifications made to SIPp include many new features that were required in order to implement the IMS benchmark specification and to apply the resulting test system to potentially large IMS systems.

Ericsson Network Resource Gateway SDK (version R5A02)

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Ericsson provides the Ericsson Network Resource Gateway SDK to support Parlay/OSA application development. This SDK contains all the tools and information to develop, test and demonstrate your Parlay/OSA applications.

December 23, 2005

Ericsson Network Resource Gateway SDK information

Size: 42 kB

January 3, 2005

Ericsson Network Resource Gateway SDK version R5A02 (gz)(zip)

Size: 25 MB

December 22, 2005

Ericsson Network Resource Gateway SDK version R5A02 (exe)

Size: 78 MB

Getting started with Parlay X web services using Ericsson's JAX-WS

Monday, May 15, 2006

This Parlay X JAX-WS tutorial kit will in a quick way show you how to develop a Parlay X application using the new standard Java API, Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), which comes bundled with Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) 2.0, replacing the Java API for XML-Based RPC (JAX-RPC). XWS-Security (XWSS) from JWSDP 2.0 is also used for setting username token. The new JWSDP 2.0 is one of the leading reference implementations for creating web service application and it is also freeware.

Parlay X is a set of standardized web services that provides developers with high-level access to the telecom functionality available in an operator's domain. The telecom functionality includes, for example, short messaging, multimedia messaging, call-control capabilities, terminal location and status. This tutorial kit only covers the following use cases: short messaging, multimedia and terminal status.

Read the article about Parlay X web services using JAX-RPC.

By Ping Li
Ericsson Mobility World

May 15, 2006

ParlayX JAX-WS Kit (zip)

Size: 772 kB

May 15, 2006

ParlayX JAX-WS Kit user guide (pdf)

Size: 617 kB

Ericsson Diameter Charging SDK

Thursday, November 3, 2005

The Diameter Charging SDK makes it possible for you to handle realtime charging of content, services and applications deployed in the operator-controlled domain (i.e. within the walled garden).

The Diameter Charging SDK is developed to support high performance client applications. Its structure is modular to allow incremental additions of Diameter features as market requirements dictate.

The Diameter Charging SDK includes the following:

Diameter Charging API
Diameter Charging Emulator
Diameter Charging Client
Documentation

November 02, 2005

Diameter Charging SDK - Release D18E

Size: 3,23 MB

November 10, 2003

Diameter Charging SDK - Release D12E (not recommended for use)

Size: 2,74 MB

Nokia Siemens Networks - IMS Developer Program

NSN have created a program for IMS developers, offering the latest NSN SDKs, emulators and testing tools. A discussion forum is also available for developer to post questions and issues about their application / projects.

Some of the NSN tools include

Network Emulator
JavaME IMS SDK
Win.NET IMS SDK
Application Server

Avaya UDN DevConnect Evaluation Downloads

Avaya (Ubiquity) has released evaluation software for you to begin developing SIP-based services and applications for deployment on their SIP A/S 7.2. The following are freely available from their Downloads page: