Product category: CompactPCI Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: Support for Carrier Grade Linux
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 May 2002
Compact PCI systems
support Carrier Grade Linux
Kontron is to combine support for Carrier Grade Linux with its Intel-based, CompactPCI products to extend its lead in delivering high-availability, modular platform solutions to the telecommunication
Kontron is to combine support for Carrier Grade Linux with its Intel-based, CompactPCI products to extend its lead in delivering high-availability, modular platform solutions to the telecommunication industry. Carrier Grade Linux is a new, more robust and fault-resilient version of Linux that incorporates an open architecture platform.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Carrier Grade Linux is a significant element of the standards-based, open "modular platform" approach to delivering communications solutions.
Modular platforms enable telecomms vendors to deliver high-availability solutions on shorter development cycles, lower costs and focus on value-add competencies such as application development and network systems integration.
Kontron will offer Linux-based high availability (HA) solutions developed on Intel architecture (IA) by validating and testing its CompactPCI (cPCI) products with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE).
CGE will support the Kontron platform in Q3 of this year.
Among the products to be included are Kontron's cPCI-DT64, a high performance cPCI board featuring dual Intel Pentium III processors and dual Gigabit Ethernet, and the XL-VHDS, Kontron's carrier-class cPCI platform offering exceptional modularity and very high density.
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Additionally, Kontron will focus on aligning its cPCI products with future developments in Linux technology.
"Service providers are under pressure to lower operating expenses", said Scott Richardson, General Manager of Intel's Marketing and Platform Programs.
"Modular platforms based on standard Intel building blocks and Carrier Grade Linux, such as those to be offered by Kontron, provide a flexible foundation upon which to build highly available solutions.
Telecomms vendors can use the same platform to deliver a variety of network infrastructure solutions, speeding development time and lowering the operating expense of the service provider".
Kontron's cPCI solutions will now allow customers to take advantage of the increased reliability, manageability, availability, and serviceability enabled by the advanced features of Carrier Grade Linux.
"This new standards-based, open architecture initiative will help foster significant developments within the telecommunications industry.
MontaVista Software is pleased to be working with Kontron and the other participating companies to integrate MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition into telecomms systems and deliver complete solutions to customers", said Jim Ready, president and CEO of MontaVista Software.
"Kontron's support for Carrier Grade Linux on IA is one of the many building blocks we are instituting to enable our HA solutions", said Jacques Desjardins, VP of Technology for Kontron.
"Our involvement in this initiative will provide a compelling offering to our customers".
In January 2002 the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) formed the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group, an organisation chartered with accelerating and promoting the development of a standardised set of enhancements to Linux for use in Carrier Grade applications.
Founding members include Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, Nokia, Redhat and SuSE.
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