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Will open standards ever come to telecomm?

Will open standards ever come to telecomm?aTCA -an open standard platform in full deploymentEmerson believes the ATCA market is unfolding as we expected and there's a wealth of evidence that confirms strong industry adoption of open standards, including ATCA. Some of the estimates of market size that were made were...

Tags: Emerson, open standard, ATCA

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Additional Resources

Guide to Deploying Carrier Grade Services Using Open Source Technologies

Open source technologies and commodity, carrier-grade hardware can combine to create a highly available, scalable, and responsive infrastructure to deploy next-generation communications services. This paper examines a solution stack based on integrating Sun GlassFish Communications Server, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database, the OpenSolaris operating system, Sun Netra ATCA Blades,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Carrier, Storage, Open Source, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-04-01

Top Four Reasons for Deploying Radisys ATCA Blades Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Platform: Evaluating Compute Performance, Overall Cost, Upgrade Path and Thermal Requirements

Telecom Equipment Manufacturers TEMs are in a race against ever-increasing network bandwidth and application deployment. Their service provider customers are quickly moving to 10 gigabyte Ethernet networks, which is placing even more demands on equipment such as media servers, 3G and LTE wireless infrastructure and IP Multimedia Subsystems IMS. These...

Tags: Performance, Blade, RadiSys Corp., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Telecom Equipment Manufacturer, System Developer, Performance Management, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2009-03-01

Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis

DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...

Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .

Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...

Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-08

CP-TA Defined Interoperability: Reducing Product Integration Time Using CP-TA Tested Building Blocks

B-STAR, in coordination with CP-TA, integrated an IPTV application using ATCA building blocks tested with CP-TA's test tools. The goal was to quantitatively show a reduction in integration time using hardware components that were CP-TA tested. This paper documents B-STAR's integration effort and serves as a process template exemplifying the...

Tags: Interoperability, Tool, Integration, CP-TA, Productivity

White papers 2008-06-13

Huawei ATCA Blade Server Powered by AMD Opteron Processors

When AMD first introduced the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture in 2003, the target market was for servers in the datacenter. Back then, AMD had a new vision for how system memory and I/O interface to the processor core as well as the ability to create the world's...

Tags: Blade Server, Server, AMD Opteron, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-10-22

Migration to ATCA: An Open Modular Architecture

This white paper traces the evolution and presents a technical summary of the Advanced Telecommunication Communication Architecture ATCA technology. In addition, it lists the current market trends in ATCA products. The white paper begins with a detailed look at how Compact PCI cPCI evolved over the years until it lead...

Tags: White Paper, Migration, Aricent, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-02-01

Fixed-mobile convergence switch race begets a Ferrari-Hummer hybrid

So I got the weirdest voice mail of my life today. Now, we've all heard about boards of directors leaking to the press. But have you ever heard of a telecom switch dialing up an industry analyst all by itself and -- I swear, it sounded just like Stephen Hawking...

Tags: voice, voicemail

Blog posts 2006-10-25

AdvancedTCA - "A Common Platform Concept to Improve Product Engineering"

The Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture ATCA provides the telecommunications industry with an opportunity to adopt a standard architecture for a broad spectrum of products, including wireless access, wireless core networks, and IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network elements. Expected benefits for telecommunications suppliers and customers include improved product capacity, cost reduction,...

Tags: Alcatel, Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Benefits, Wi-Fi, Networking, Human Resources, Wireless

White papers 2005-07-01

Network Management Systems Today: Meeting the Challenges of Complexity, Flexibility, and Customer Assurance With AdvancedTCA Technology

Service providers today face many challenges. Network topologies are growing more complex, new technologies for IP-based service delivery must be integrated into their networks, and customers are more demanding and fickle than ever before. One of the most important requirements for assuring the timely delivery of services without interruption is...

Tags: Network, NMS, Network Management, Networking, Network Administration

White papers 2005-05-01

Single board computers and embedded CPU blades generated $1.36 bln in 2003

The overall market for slot single-board computers and embedded CPU Blades reached an estimated $1,360.3 mln in 2003, and is projected to increase at a Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 4.38% to $1,685.3 mln by 2008. Although VME currently represents the largest share of the SBC market, CompactPCI shipments...

Tags: CompactPCI, CPU Blades, CPU, CPU blade

Blog posts 2004-11-15

Why ATCA May Be the Ideal Platform for Delivery of IP Multimedia Subsystem Service Network Elements

In light of fierce competition and cheap minutes, service solutions providers can learn about a major trend toward the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS for revenue-boosting services. This webcast explains what is motivating the services market segment to move to IMS and why ATCA may be the ideal platform for delivery...

Tags: Network, IP, Network Technology, Networking

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