PrismTech Announces Support for the OMG(TM)'s Extensible Transport Framework (ETF).WASHINGTON -- Will allow High Speed QoS Sensitive Custom Transports to be supported underneath its OpenFusion e*ORB SDR See software defined radio. real-time & embedded product suite Today at the OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group (TM)'s Real-time and Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Workshop, PrismTech a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, announced support for the OMG's Extensible Transport Framework (ETF ETF See Exchange Traded Fund. ETF See exchange-traded fund (ETF). ). ETF standardizes PrismTech's existing proprietary solution allowing high speed QoS sensitive custom transports to be supported underneath its OpenFusion e*ORB SDR real-time and embedded ORB products. The use of novel and unusual transports under CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R) middleware has been the subject of much interest for the real-time CORBA community. This is because the use of specialized QoS sensitive transports has been shown to provide significant benefits in terms of performance and reliability. The OMG's recently adopted Extensible Transports Framework (ETF) Specification aims to simplify and unify the thinking behind the idea of plugging in custom transports under an ORB. The specification standardizes the interfaces required to write transport plug-ins that can be portably "plugged into" different ORB implementations that support the standard. By supporting the new OMG ETF specification in its OpenFusion e*ORB SDR real-time and embedded product suite, PrismTech is able to replace its existing proprietary pluggable transport interface. This makes it far simpler for end users or even third party commercial plug-in authors to write transport plug-ins in order to meet the performance and predictability requirements of developers of real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. , as well as maximizing transport plug-in code reuse across CORBA ORBs. "Traditional TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. transport can represent 95% of the latency in a real-time embedded ORB middleware solution," said Andrew Foster, Product Manager, PrismTech. "By breaking the established link between CORBA and TCP/IP, OpenFusion e*ORB SDR with its high performance transports is able to provide orders of magnitude advances in performance." Andrew Foster will also be presenting at the OMG's Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop on "Practical experiences of using the OMG's ETF under a real-time CORBA ORB to implement QoS sensitive custom transports." The presentation will include real-world examples of the use of custom transports for secure and narrow-bandwidth ORB communications for classes of application requiring a degree of QoS control. Notes for Editors About PrismTech Founded in 1992, with offices in the USA and Europe, PrismTech is a privately held software products company. PrismTech serves international Fortune 500 customers in the telecommunications, data communications, defense and aerospace sectors. PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in productivity tools and middleware, with solutions ranging from wide-scale integration to embedded real-time systems, supporting applications from operations support systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) through to software-defined radio (SDR). For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com. CORBA is a registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. OpenFusion and e*ORB SDR are trademarks of PrismTech. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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