Service Availability Forum Grows to Over 30 Members, Expands to Include Asia Pacific Companies.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MERCER ISLAND Mer·cer Island A city of west-central Washington, coextensive with Mercer Island in Lake Washington near Seattle. It is primarily residential. Population: 22,300. , Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2002 Forum's Growing Ranks Will Aid in the Development of Open Specifications for Carrier-grade Communications and Computing Infrastructure The Service Availability(TM) Forum, an industry-wide coalition of premier communications and computing companies, today announced the addition of 12 new members, bringing the total to over 30. The Forum's growth underscores the industry-wide movement from proprietary systems to an open, commercial-off-the-shelf production model. The 12 new members, ranging from clustering solutions vendors to operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. providers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers, bring invaluable knowledge to the Forum and strong understanding of the communications and computing industry. Together, new and existing Forum members will create and promote the open Service Availability(TM) programming interface specifications that aid the development of products and solutions for carrier-grade communications and computing infrastructure. "The addition of these industry leaders demonstrates the Forum's vitality and the industry's commitment to promote the open Service Availability(TM) specifications," said Michael O'Brien Michael or Mike O'Brien may refer to:
Newest members to join the Forum include China TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) A set of international standards for network management from the ITU. It is used by large carriers such as Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. ; Daisy Technologies; Emic Networks; Eternal Systems, Inc; Huawei Technologies; Mission Critical Linux; NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation; OSE OSE - Open Systems Environment Systems; TimeSys; UXComm; Wind River, and Znyx Networks. The Service Availability Forum
During this period of growth, the Service Availability(TM) Forum has expanded to include companies headquartered in the Asia Pacific region, joining other leading companies headquartered in Europe and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . These additions underscore the worldwide collaboration underway to create the open Service Availability(TM) carrier-grade specifications that meet the global needs of the communications and computing community. "A critical step in the emergence of a world-wide industry standard is the ability to easily adopt standards-based specifications in regions throughout the globe," stated Naotake Takatsukasa, executive general manager of NEC Networks. "The participation of leading companies in Europe and North America -- and now Asia Pacific -- will significantly aid in the development of those open, global specifications." About the Service Availability(TM) Forum The Service Availability(TM) Forum is the industry body dedicated to creating and promoting the open specifications necessary for quickly building global communications equipment and applications that enable ultra-dependability for users of multi-service, packet-based networks. Created by industry leading communications and computing companies, the Service Availability(TM) Forum's open programming interface specifications will help facilitate the fast delivery of dependable, differentiated, cost-effective communications infrastructure. Service Availability(TM) Forum membership offers the opportunity to take part in building the carrier-grade specifications for the future. For more information about the Service Availability(TM) Forum, visit www.saforum.org. About China TMN ChinaTMN (www.chinatmn.com) Corporation develops and markets software solutions and related services to telecommunications service providers and equipment vendors in China. The company's distributed software generator (DSG DSG Direct Shift Gearbox (Audi) DSG Dosage DSG Deputy Secretary General DSG Dressing DSG Designate DSG Desmoglein DSG Duke Student Government (Duke University) ) platform enables many telecommunication management network (TMN) applications. The company also offers professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to global telecommunication equipment vendors. About Daisy Technologies Daisy Technologies (www.daisy-tech.com) is a venture capital backed, privately held start-up dedicated to providing complete board-level solutions to next generation network infrastructure 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 market. Designed as modular building Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. blocks on hardware and software level, Daisy's solutions aim to provide interoperability of any protocol/network over any protocol/network through WoW(TM) technology focus and SMILe(TM) (Software Modules Independency Layer) framework for ensuring 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. and service availability. Founded in August 2001, Daisy Technologies is headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia. About Emic Networks Emic Networks (www.emicnetworks.com), the fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. software company, was founded by Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. and traffic management specialists in response to the explosive growth in the need for reliability and performance in next generation network equipment. Emic Networks develops IP cluster (IP Runner(TM)) products ensuring service availability and dynamic load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them for Internet devices and applications. Emic Networks is headquartered in Oulu, Finland. About Eternal Systems, Inc. Eternal Systems (www.eternal-systems.com) software makes it fast and affordable to create application transparent fault-tolerant solutions for systems where failure would be extraordinarily costly or catastrophic. Designed for the distributed, multi-tiered computing environments typically found in the communications, military, defense, aerospace, industrial control, transportation and medical industries, Eternal Systems' standards-based fault-tolerance infrastructure software enables developers to achieve true fault tolerance without specialized programming expertise or costly complex custom coding. Eternal Systems is recognized for its leadership role in establishing the Object Management Group's Fault Tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. 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 standard. Eternal Systems has its headquarters in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. About Huawei Technologies Established in 1988, Huawei Technologies (www.huawei.com) is a private high-tech enterprise fully owned by its employees. Huawei specializes in research and development, production and marketing of communications equipment, providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in fixed, mobile and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. networks. With Huawei's success in the access network markets and its 60 percent worldwide market share, the company is ranked as one of the world's leading players in the access network field. With total sales of US$3.1 billion in 2001, Huawei has achieved a substantial increase upon last year's sales. About Mission Critical Linux Mission Critical Linux (www.missioncriticallinux.com) provides high-availability clustering solutions for enterprise Linux systems. The company's products enable clients to deploy industry-leading shared-storage and shared-nothing clustering solutions. The company's clustering solutions provide the highest levels of data integrity during system failure. The company has a comprehensive portfolio of products and support offerings allowing clients to deliver the highest quality products to their customers. About NEC Corporation NEC Corporation (Nasdaq:NIPNY) (FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. : 6701q.l) (www.nec.com) is a leading provider of Internet solutions, dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its customers in the key computer, network and electron device fields through its three market-focused in-house companies: NEC Solutions, NEC Networks and NEC Electron Devices. NEC Corporation, with its in-house companies, employs more than 150,000 people worldwide and saw consolidated net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of 5,409 billion Yen (approx. US$43 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001. About OSE Systems OSE Systems (www.ose.com) is the technological leader of real-time operating systems software and services for the communications market. OSE is also used in safety-critical, high-availability, distributed and fault-tolerant applications such as avionics and industrial control. Customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , Samsung, Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. , Sony and Boeing. OSE Systems is a subsidiary of Enea Data (SAXESS: ENEA). Enea markets and sells services, products and training in specialized technical arenas, including real-time application development and support for 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. as well as IT and e-business solutions. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Enea employs approximately 800 people worldwide. About TimeSys TimeSys (www.timesys.com) is a pioneer and leader in Embedded Linux and Java development technologies. Its products allow design engineers to leverage the power, flexibility and reliability of a new class of development tools for advanced embedded systems for a variety of markets and applications, covering the complete performance range from non-real-time to deterministic hard real-time, using both open-source and proprietary technologies. TimeSys is considered the top choice by systems architects for developing more robust, less expensive, single API Linux solutions for embedded systems. TimeSys was the first to create a reservation technology that guarantees system response, even in overloaded systems. TimeSys solutions offer completely predictable and fast response time performance. About UXComm UXComm (www.uxcomm.com) is a leading provider of comprehensive, scalable, embedded systems management solutions for the telecommunications and data communications markets. XTend embedded management solutions from UXComm incorporate a standards-based, extensible, multi-protocol run-time platform and development tools that enable rapid development of unified management and control systems for the next generation of network processors, equipment and services. These unified, integrated solutions significantly reduce system development time and enable faster time to market. Founded in 2001, UXComm 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. headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. About Wind River Wind River (Nasdaq:WIND) (www.windriver) is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think(tm). Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. About Znyx Networks, Inc ZNYX Networks (www.znyx.com) is the leading global provider of high availability embedded Ethernet solutions for CarrierClass(TM) systems. Equipment manufacturers and system integrators use ZNYX Networks technologies to create next-generation solutions with high-availability, high-performance, and strict compliance to telecommunications standards. The ZNYX Networks family of products and services provide design engineers with pre-built and pre-tested embedded network and switch solutions that provide significant "time to market" advantages. Privately held, ZNYX Networks is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with advanced research centers in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Ottawa, Canada. Sales and professional service offices are in North America, Europe and Asia. Service Availability and the Service Availability logo are proprietary trademarks used with permission of the owner. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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