Force Computers Ships High Availability CompactPCI Management Servers to Alcatel.Business Editors/High Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2000 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 Force's Embedded Cluster Platform to be Used as Carrier-Grade Management Server in Alcatel's Next-Generation of Core IP Terabit Routers Force Computers, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Solectron Corporation's technology solutions business unit (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. ) and a leader in embedded computing, announced at SUPERCOMM 2000 that it shipped the first of its High Availability, CompactPCI(R) management servers to the Alcatel Carrier Data Division in Antwerp, Belgium. The servers will be integrated into Alcatel's new family of next-generation IP core routers and will perform mission-critical system management functions. Designed for ease of maintenance and to endure the rigors of telecom environments, the Force CompactPCI server leverages key technologies from the award-winning Centellis(R) CO (Central Office) 88520 embedded cluster platform. In addition to designing, manufacturing and supporting the server, Force will also assist Alcatel in obtaining NEBS(TM) Level 3 certification for the management server. High Availability, CompactPCI and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). clustering The CompactPCI server designed for Alcatel borrows key technologies and core features from Force's embedded cluster platform, the Centellis CO 88520. The Centellis CO is a carrier grade, UNIX(R)-based High Availability server in a NEBS-tested CompactPCI chassis. Combining dual nodes for cluster failover, hot-swappable components and a fault-resilient architecture, it delivers "five nines" uptime for critical telecommunications and networking applications. Shared high-performance hard disk drive array and intelligent DC power input and distribution designs were critical to meeting Alcatel's management server requirements. "The Centellis CO 88520 is an embodiment of the engineering skill set of Force Computers for designing High Availability, NEBS-tested platforms," said Chris Williams, vice president, Force Computers. "This skill set empowered us to meet, and in some cases exceed, Alcatel's product and time-to-market requirements." Alcatel: world, market and technology leader Alcatel is a global telecommunications carrier vendor for terrestrial and submarine networks and has a proven record in data communications solutions. It is the world, market and technology leader in SONET and ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line products. Alcatel also offers digital/optical cross-connect equipment and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing solutions for the metro and over the long haul for IP-intensive applications, handling voice and data traffic from any-to-any access point over ATM and core IP backbone networks. The Alcatel R&D labs in Antwerp are working on the development of a highly sophisticated, flexible and extremely scalable optical terabit router ranging in capacity from 640 Gbps in one frame to multiple terabits in one node. Interface support covers speeds from OC3 to OC192, including GbE and 10GbE with an option to provide 40Gbit/s at wire speed in the future. This product exhibits a completely distributed processing and management intelligence and offers true carrier class reliability in both hardware and software. "Force Computers matched our selection criteria by offering a complete server solution and meeting our aggressive time lines," said Jan Van Tetering, chief engineer, Alcatel. "Force has enabled our project to rapidly move forward, accelerating the adoption of our next-generation technology in worldwide telecommunication networking applications." About Alcatel Alcatel builds next-generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. About Force Computers Force Computers (www.forcecomputers.com) was founded in 1981 and is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of standard and custom systems and board-level computer platforms and services for the embedded market. The processor-independent company helps its customers develop embedded applications based on Alpha, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Pentium(R), PowerPC(TM), PowerQUICC(TM), SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R), StrongARM and 68K(TM) technologies, for embedded UNIX(R), Linux(TM), Windows NT(R) and real-time applications. Force supports VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. , CompactPCI(R), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI/ISA and PMC bus architectures, as well as custom form factors. An ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified company, Force Computers practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of the company's global operations. The company, along with its parent company, Solectron Corporation, is the 1997 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for Manufacturing. Force's corporate headquarters and Asia Pacific headquarters is located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Force's European headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. Note to Editors: All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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