Force Introduces StackWare Protocol Software to Ease Telecom Integration.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Performance- And Standards-Tested Suite Of MTP-2, LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. And Frame Relay Protocols Speeds Time-To-Market for Communications OEMs 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, today introduced StackWare(tm), a telecommunications software solution to enable communications OEMs ease of integration for advanced telecom products. Using the StackWare protocol package with the Force PMC/860 telecom controller hardware provides a software interface for easy configuration and delivers a performance- and standards-tested solution for faster time-to-market. Said Mathias Renner, product manager for Force Computers, "With the launch of the StackWare package, Force Computers extends its telecommunications integration expertise to the lower layer software in support of its hardware I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output products. Using the StackWare software, OEMs gain the advantage of having a complete protocol software and hardware subsystem supported by one vendor. These protocols are complemented by software technology Force has developed for serial I/O support, WinNT-NDIS drivers and X.25 protocol in order to serve a wider range of custom projects." The StackWare package offers OEMs an off-the-shelf solution for Message Transfer Protocol-Layer 2 (MTP-2), Link Access Protocol for the D channel (LAPD) and Frame Relay that supports applications for wireless infrastructure, intelligent networks and voice/data network convergence. Force has qualified the protocol package for use with the company's 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) and PowerPC(tm) processor single board computers on CompactPCI(r) and 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. . In addition, the StackWare product is easily integrated on customer proprietary designs provided that they include a standard IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. P1386 slot. "We used the protocol package and the PMC/860 controller as a shrink-wrapped solution for our product," said Ofer Gottfried, vice president R&D of Airslide Systems Inc. "The package solved our problem of having to program the application on the hardware level, as well integrating and testing the protocol. The package provides the programming interface to control the hardware layer, which was very important to meet our time-to-market requirements. The way the protocol was implemented reflects Force's expertise in telecom product design." Supports variety of hosts, eliminates porting The StackWare solution is a pre-configured product composed of hardware, protocol software and operating system drivers and eliminates the need for any porting to be done by the OEM. With expertise in telecom, the PMC/860 controller and Solaris(r)/VxWorks(r) drivers, Force performs all the required software porting, lifting the need for OEMs to develop proficiency for the complex E1/T1 telecom interface. Easy configuration Together, StackWare software and the PMC/860 controller offer an integrated building-block solution for an OEM communication system. By maintaining compliance with industry standards, Force's solution saves the customer time and effort in configuring and reconfiguring hardware. For example, StackWare protocols allow the customer to look up hardware coding and set up functions for line interface cards and multiplexer controls, as well as offering a wide set of diagnostic and statistical functions. PowerQUICC-based intelligent sub-system Based on the Motorola PowerQUICC(tm) processor, the StackWare software and PMC/860 subsystem offer a compact, high-density and intelligent sub-system solution with dual E1/T1 interfaces that can be easily integrated in communication applications. Because of its open-standards building-block base and open APIs, the StackWare product is easily integrated with any SS7 equipment and offers OEMs a migration path for future StackWare product upgrades. Pricing and availability The StackWare protocol software package is shipping now. The package includes the binary software for the PMC/860 controller, a Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 driver, a VxWorks driver for PowerPC750 hosts and a run-time license. The list price is US$1,200 per protocol software package. 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(r), StrongARM, and 68K(tm) technologies, for embedded 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). (r), Linux(tm), Windows NT(r) and real-time applications. Force supports VME, 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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