Java virtual machine aims for carrier control: News from Aonix

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NewMonics has developed the first Java virtual machine specifically for use in the product development life cycle of the management and control plane functions of carrier-class products. PERC 3.3 was built to enable optical, multiservice access, service concentration, and IP infrastructure equipment that, with the addition of increasingly sophisticated functionality, are emerging as veritable platforms in their own right. PERC 3.3 responds to increased pressures confronting network element vendors to incorporate application-level functionality, distributed, chassis-based architectures, rich messaging requirements, broad service creation and manageability capabilities.

The PERC VM is used by industry leaders such as Nortel, Alcatel, and Intel, as well as up-and-comers such as Calix, Turin, and Inkra.

Prior to release, PERC 3.3, which adds support for XScale, was extensively beta tested by key customers such as Intel.

"PERC 3.3 makes Java the silver bullet solution for creating application-level functionality, a broad range of services, and management capabilities", said Tim Tumilty, VP Sales and Marketing for NewMonics.

"As important, PERC also decouples the release schedule of management plane software from the rest of the element, enabling post-release enhancements and customisations".

"Next-generation languages and tools have found strong adoption among developers because they can offer productivity benefits for software development and maintenance", says John Landau, Chief Systems Architect, Intel's Network Processor Group.

"Intel is pleased that NewMonics' PERC products will be available to customers using the Intel architecture and Intel XScale microarchitecture to develop high-performance complex networking and telecommunications infrastructure systems".

JDK 1.3-compatible, PERC supports the latest Java libraries and APIs and seamlessly integrates with existing C/C++ code bases.

PERC 3.3 provides reliability enhancements over previous releases and introduces support for XScale.

PERC 3.3 features include: J2SE 1.3 and J2ME CDC compatibility; ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilation; real-time garbage collection; profiling support; remote debugging support; enhanced throughput and footprint; VxWorks, VxWorks AE, OSE, Nucleus and Linux RTOS support; VxSim and OSE Softkernel emulator support; and PowerPC, XScale, ARM, and x86 support.

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