MontaVista Announces Industry's First Linux Platform Designed for Carrier-Grade Telecommunications Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002 Enhanced Industry Standard-based Product Boasts Hardened Kernel and "6 Nines" Reliability MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Carrier Grade Edition 2.1, the first carrier-grade quality Linux distribution The Linux operating system packaged for customers for a fee. It includes the Linux kernel, essential operating system components from the GNU Project, an installation program, various open source utilities and applications, documentation and technical support. targeted for edge and core telecommunications including applications for the converging IP and voice networks, optical networks, signaling gateways and Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways, and many other applications. "The market is demanding a Linux solution for telecommunications and MontaVista Software is being responsive to the market needs," said Jim Ready, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MontaVista Software. "We are leveraging our significant expertise in providing telecommunications solutions to deliver a standards-based, open architecture software platform for the industry's next-generation telecommunications systems, which require virtually zero down time." MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition enhances standard Linux with additional high reliability and availability features for deployment in carrier-grade environments, and is designed specifically to address the needs of telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Based on a significant open source development project initiated by MontaVista Software with contributions from other open source projects, it provides kernel and driver hardening, monitoring and fault management services, and other carrier-grade features. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition builds on the company's expertise in embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . The new product incorporates all the benefits of the MontaVista flagship product, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, which includes a fully preemptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. kernel and real-time scheduling, small footprint targets and journaling file systems. It also builds on key technologies from the MontaVista High Availability Framework, such as PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. 2.12 hot swap capabilities (hot replace and hot insert), redundant Ethernet, and resource monitoring and event management subsystem. "This MontaVista Linux release adds momentum to the emergence of Intel-based carrier-grade solutions," said Scott Richardson, general manager of Intel's Network Processing Group. "Telecommunications customers need fast and cost-effective access to high-performance, highly available platforms. The combination of modular Intel building blocks, MontaVista's Linux expertise and its ongoing alignment with emerging OSDL See Linux Foundation. specifications will give these customers the levels of flexibility and time-to-market they require." "Telecommunications equipment manufacturers want to deliver affordable next-generation solutions at a faster time-to-market," said Jane Munn, vice president, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Global Telecommunications. "Carrier-grade Linux, with its open interfaces and leading-edge technology, will help bring these solutions to telecommunications customers. By working with the IBM Linux Technology Center The IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) is an organization focused on development for the Linux kernel and related open-source software projects. In 1999, IBM created the LTC to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. , MontaVista Software is moving aggressively to enable carrier-grade Linux-based solutions that meet the stringent requirements of the core network infrastructure." MontaVista Software has a strong commitment to providing carrier-grade solutions and is actively participating in several industry initiatives to define carrier-grade and high availability standards. These include the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux A specification that defines an industrial strength operating system environment using Linux. Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) covers hardware, availability, clustering, security, serviceability and performance. Working Group (which includes Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Nokia and Alcatel as members) and the Service Availability Forum
"The availability of an open Linux platform that addresses the requirements of the telecommunications industry is a major step in moving Linux and open source software technology into these important applications," said Tim Witham, OSDL lab director. "MontaVista's participation in the OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux Working Group shows its commitment to the development of common building blocks to allow software and hardware vendors maximum control over their products and time-to-market." Availability MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition will be available for Intel architecture platforms in the second quarter of 2002. Subscribers to the MontaVista High Availability Framework product will be able to migrate seamlessly and without additional cost to the MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition product. Subscribers of MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition will be able to upgrade to a next-generation version of the product when industry carrier-grade Linux specifications are further defined. Support for other architecture platforms is also planned. For more product information, please visit http://www.mvista.com/products/mvl_cge/mvlcge_overview.html. Background High Availability is a term for technology that enhances the "up-time" of computer systems by distributing functionality across multiple CPUs. Highly available systems reduce single points of failure in a single chassis. In response to hardware and software failures, high availability systems facilitate the rapid transfer of control (fail-over) from a faulty CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , peripheral, or software component to a functional one, while preserving operations or transactions in progress at the time of failure. Carrier-grade is a term for next-generation telecommunications products that require 5 nines or 99.999 percent reliability. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition provides key technologies that enable 5 nines solutions. The product's hot swap capabilities, combined with redundancy support for networking and storage subsystems, provide a higher level of availability than is realized with standard Linux operating systems. These features, along with a fault management framework and hardware redundancy, will enable a system to reach 5 nines or even 6 nines of availability. See What Other MontaVista Partners are Saying at the Bottom of the Release About MontaVista Software Inc. MontaVista Software Inc. powers the embedded revolution by providing open-source systems software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal products include MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Professional Edition and MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional Edition is a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development platform and a set of tool kits for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, 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. , SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a second-generation high availability product that is an ideal Linux platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing specific customer needs such as the Java development environment, high availability technology, powerful graphics toolkits and more. MontaVista offers developers a family of products and services for embedded design and development targeted for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer devices. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service) RRE Road Race Engineering RRE Remote Roof Easy RRE Residential Real Estate RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co WR Hambrecht + Co. is a full service investment bank with headquarters in New York and San Francisco. It specializes in using its unique auction process called OpenIPO to compete with the traditional methods of larger and more established banks. ., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic and Sony Corp. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call 408/328-9200. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. Support from Key Providers: RadiSys Corp. "Industry-wide standardization of interfaces is required to drive interoperability and economy of scale for data services to be widely available," said Arif Kareem, senior vice president for RadiSys. "It makes sense for telecommunications equipment providers to select open source, cost-effective operating platforms from innovative companies such as MontaVista Software." www.radisys.com GoAhead Software "The open architectural model allows system components including hardware, operating systems, middleware and applications to interact more efficiently," said Michael O'Brien, CEO of GoAhead Software. "Additionally, with the integration of off-the-shelf solutions, such as MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition and GoAhead SelfReliant Service Availability middleware, network equipment providers can realize reduced development costs, time-to-market improvements, and ultimately, more reliable and available products for their customers." www.goahead.com LVL LVL In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Latvian Lats. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 7 Systems "Networking equipment providers will now have a choice of industry standards-based products as a welcome alternative to proprietary operating systems," said Ernie Baker, president of LVL7 Systems. "With the availability of LVL7's FASTPATH software integrated with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition, networking OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and vendors can reduce development costs, improve operational efficiencies and decrease time to market." www.lvl7.com |
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