The folks at Linux Magazine just released this article by Mary Shacklett about Linux use in the telecommunications industry. Yes, it’s a very smooth and well-researched read. And in full disclosure, Mary’s written a couple of very nice case studies for us.

But the only ties between Mary and Iperia on this article are a few quotes from Iperia COO Art Leondires, including this one about Linux-based IperiaVX:

“The Linux-based offering is a response to the service provider and enterprise markets, which wanted the option of being hardware independent and able to take advantage of lower hardware pricing,” said Art Leondires, Iperia’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Products. “This product runs on standard Linux platforms, and takes advantage of SOA. Enterprises or telecommunications service providers have the capability of rapid service creation through the use of ‘packaged’ Web services that come with the product and that allow sites to customize provisioning and other calling behavior. On the GUI end, we use portlet technology, which allows Iperia’s customers to custom-brand their Web portals.”

And later:

“We are seeing a strong market response to our Linux-based product … Our customers see that the reliability of Linux is right up there with the reliability of other proprietary systems, but Linux gives our customers freedom in their hardware purchase decisions.”

To get access to the full article, you’ll have to go through Linux Magazine’s very thorough registration process. If you’re at all interested in the topic of the article, though, it’ll be worth it.