MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 Now Shipping
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 Now Shipping
Industry¹s First COTS Linux Platform for Telecommunications Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif., PARIS and TOKYO, July 23, 2002 MontaVista Software
Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that
MontaVista Linux® Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 is available immediately to
customers. This revolutionary new product is the industry¹s first
commercial, carrier-grade quality Linux distribution. Carrier Grade Edition
is targeted for edge and core telecommunications solutions, including
applications for the converging IP and voice networks, optical networks,
signaling gateways and Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways.
"The market is demanding a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Linux solution
for telecommunications and MontaVista Software has delivered," commented Jim
Ready, president and CEO, MontaVista Software. "By leveraging our
significant technical expertise, both in Linux software technology and in
providing telecommunications solutions, MontaVista has delivered a
standards-based, open architecture communications platform for the
industry¹s next-generation telecommunications systems."
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) enhances standard Linux with
key features for deployment in carrier-grade environments. It is designed
specifically for network equipment providers as a standard, modular,
communications platform. Based on open source projects initiated by
MontaVista Software and other open source contributions, Carrier Grade
Edition provides essential high availability features, including CompactPCI
hot swap drivers, redundant Ethernet and RAID1. Carrier Grade Edition also
delivers a hardened driver architecture, resource monitoring and fault
management services, and other carrier grade capabilities.
Carrier Grade Edition offers significant benefits to network equipment
providers who face ever-increasing time-to-market pressures. These
networking OEMs need to deliver scalable, high performance solutions with
real time support. Carrier Grade Edition enables them to do so, and to
lower their cost and time to development and deployment.
Carrier Grade Edition provides a robust software platform to meet demands
from carriers and service providers for service availability. With its high
performance, real-time Linux kernel and high availability features, CGE
offers significant advantages beyond standard or ³enterprise² Linux. CGE is
based on an open architecture, incorporating standard interfaces for
flexibility, portability and longevity. Moreover, Carrier Grade Edition
offers developers a choice of vendors at various levels of integration a
choice currently denied by providers of closed and proprietary systems.
"Network equipment providers are moving to Intel architecture-based carrier
grade modular platforms, attracted by advantages in price, performance and
vendor choice, " said Ron Peck, director of marketing, Communications
Software Programs of Intel¹s Network Processing Group. "MontaVista
Software, with its proven technology expertise, especially in
telecommunications, and its alignment with Open Source Development Labs¹
(OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux specifications, is poised to give these providers
the carrier-class performance, levels of flexibility and speed-to-market
they require."
Carrier Grade Edition supports industry-leading PICMG 2.16 compliant
CompactPCI platforms and standard rack mount systems based on the Intel
IA-32 architecture. These include systems from IBM, Intel, Motorola, Radisys
and Force Computers.
"Carrier Grade Edition from MontaVista Software enables our mutual customers
to build high availability solutions with an open, standards-based operating
system Linux," said Venkataraman Prasannan, senior director for RadiSys.
"This move to open standards promotes economy of scale and improves our
customers¹ time-to-market and time-to-revenue."
Carrier Grade Edition Attributes
Key high availability attributes of the Carrier Grade Edition include:
-- Fault management framework
-- Diagnostics: On-line and off-line
-- Performance: Support for sub-millisecond real-time response
-- Scalability: From embedded single board computers to large SMP servers
-- Openness: built on systems and standard APIs
Features
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition builds on the company¹s expertise in
embedded Linux and high availability. The new product incorporates all the
features of the company¹s flagship product, MontaVista Linux Professional
Edition, including rich hardware support, a fully preemptible kernel and
real-time scheduling, small footprint and journaling file systems. It also
builds on technologies from the MontaVista High Availability Framework, such
as PICMG 2.12 hot swap capabilities (hot replace and hot insert), redundant
Ethernet, multi-hosted RAID, and resource monitoring and event management
subsystems. Key new features for Carrier Grade Edition include driver
hardening, high resolution timers, improved diagnostic capabilities (kernel
dynamic probes, multithreaded core dumps, kernel crash dump and analysis
tools), POSIX event logs, enhanced kernel panic handler and enhanced fault
management framework for applications and middleware.
Commitment to Industry Standards
MontaVista Software is committed to providing carrier-grade solutions and
actively participates in industry initiatives to define carrier-grade and
high availability standards. These include the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux
Working Group (with Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
MontaVista Software and Nokia) and the Service Availability Forum (with
Force, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, Nokia and RadiSys).
Emerging specifications from these organizations will be incorporated into
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition.
Availability
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 is available immediately.
Subscribers to the MontaVista High Availability Framework product will be
able to migrate seamlessly and without additional cost to Carrier Grade
Edition. Subscribers to MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition will be able
to upgrade to a next-generation version of the product when industry
carrier-grade Linux specifications gain further definition. Support for
additional CPU architecture platforms is also planned. For more product
information, please visit http://www.mvista.com/cge/index.html or email to
info@mvista.com.
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 (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista
Software¹s principal products include MontaVista Linux® Professional
Edition and MontaVista Linux® 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, 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 funded by leading investors
such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht +
Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic and Sony Corporation. 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.
Contacts:
Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone: (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com
Patricia Colby
PR Strategy and Business Development
Pacifico Inc.
Phone: (408) 293 8600 x340
E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com
