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Sun Microsystems, Inc. on 26th March announced that SPEECH DESIGN, a leading European provider of messaging and mobility solutions for businesses and network operators, has selected Sun's MySQLâ„¢ Cluster database to promote carrier grade availability, performance and scalability of an innovative new messaging offering with reduced costs and faster time-to-market.

Speech Design's products and services include Next Generation Messaging, Call Completion and other innovative added-value carrier solutions. Their universal, open-standards-based THORâ„¢ platform is capable of integrating multiple services on a single system, offering carriers unprecedented flexibility and reduced cost of ownership. More than 130,000 companies and millions of individual users benefit daily from Speech Design's added-value communications solutions delivered by their partners: premier suppliers of enterprise and public networks. The company has developed a new 'Call Completion and advanced messaging' solution, designed to address a large challenge in the wireless industry: the roughly 40 percent of all calls that are never directly connected -- usually due to the recipient being on another call, busy, in an area of poor service, or having their mobile device turned off. By improving these situations in a seamless way, wireless carriers can increase their customer's satisfaction and productivity -- while recovering 'lost' revenue from these calls. Speech Design's Product provides users with advanced SMS messages to make it easier to re-connect missed calls, for both the sender and receiver and also advanced messaging options for absolute comfort and convenience.

This system is based on MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, Sun's high-availability open source database, especially designed and certified for use in carrier grade communications environments, such as Subscriber Data Management systems (HLR, HSS) and in Service Delivery Platforms.