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Trilogic's cPCI
Platform Gets OEMS To Market Fast
Trilogic Systems intros the first in a series of standard
products from their new Quick Turn Program. The CompactPCI
Communications Platform is a rackmount CompactPCI development
platform for use with either WindowsNT/2000 or Red Hat Linux. It is
designed to accelerate the development of carrier-grade computing
applications using CompactPCI. The CompactPCI communications
platform combines a standard 9U x 19" industrial rackmount
chassis with an 8-slot, 6U H.110 CompactPCI backplane supporting
32-bit or 64-bit operation.
No. 510, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
RadiSys, LynuxWorks To
Develop Open Architecture HA Linux
RadiSys Corp. and LynuxWorks announced plans to develop an
Open Architecture High-Availability Linux system targeted for
telecom and embedded system applications which require
"five-nines" or better availability. Implemented as an
enhancement to LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux and the Linux-compatible
LynxOS real-time OS, the new OS extensions will provide full support
for CompactPCI hot swap operations, allowing online repair of
standard peripheral controllers as well as completely dynamic system
reconfiguration. The OS will also support failover between redundant
system host processors in a CompactPCI system and advanced platform
management through the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
In contrast to other high-availability operating systems tailored to
use platform-specific capabilities of a particular manufacturer's
systems, RadiSys and LynuxWorks will produce software which
functions completely through open, standard interfaces. The key
specification that makes this possible is IPMI, which has been
adopted as the standard platform management interface for CompactPCI
systems.
No. 511, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
Parity's Graphical
VOS, VOS Receive CT Media Certification
Parity Software, a business unit of Intel's Dialogic subsidiary,
announced today that its Graphical VOS and VOS products have
received CT Media certification from QualityLogic, an independent
testing services firm. Dialogic CT Media server software is an open,
standards-based platform for converged communications. CT Media
server software allows multiple applications from a variety of
vendors to reside on a single server and share the underlying
resources. The CT Media Interoperability Certification Testing
Program certifies products from different vendors that can run on a
single CT Media-based server and cooperatively share telephony
hardware, calls, and data between one another. "Parity is
committed to providing telephony tools that combine ease-of-use with
rapid development of CT server applications while offering the full
range of features and benefits inherent in CT Media server
software," said Bob Edgar, VP of Parity Software. "This
certification of VOS underscores our commitment to increasing
developers' ROI while maintaining an uncompromising level of
flexibility and longevity to every application built with Parity
tools."
No. 512, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
Cyclone 3U cPCI
UltraSCSI RAID Controller
Cyclone Microsystems announced the CPCI-975, a 3U CompactPCI RAID
controller that provides fault-tolerant storage and maximum data
availability for high-performance embedded systems. The CPCI-975
offers OEMs the opportunity to utilize RAID technology with a fast
64-bit cPCI bus in high-density 3U cPCI systems. Cyclone's CPCI-975
performs all RAID functions independent of the host processor.
"We are seeing an increased demand for applications as varied
as transactional processing, telecommunications (AIN), imaging, and
video," said Peter Zackin, Cyclone's VP of sales.
No. 513, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
VxTel Intros High
Density Voice Processor
VxTel introduced the VX-SP1000, a fully programmable voice
signal processor for carrier-class, super-switches in next-gen
packet networks. The VX-SP1000 is the first product in a family of
carrier communications processors being developed for broadband
telecommunication applications such as voice, fax, data, DSL,
wireless, and video. Employing a unique DSP architecture, the
VX-SP1000 offers up to 12 times the channel density of
general-purpose DSP-based alternatives commonly used in VoIP
applications. Each VX-SP1000 can process up to 240 G.711
uncompressed channels or 120 G.729A compressed channels. Each
channel includes 64ms tail-length echo cancellation and key
telephony functionality, such as comfort-noise generation,
voice-activity detection, and DTMF tone detection and generation.
No. 514, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
Force Support For Wind
River's Next-Gen VxWorks Platform
Force Computers announced board support package (BSP) for Wind
River's VxWorks AE. Force will provide a BSP for their PowerCore
CPCI-680 SBC, offering the advantages of SENTINEL universal
PCI-to-PCI bridge technology to the embedded computing market. The
CPCI-680 BSP consists of all the software routines that interface
SBC components to the RTOS. Developers can now take advantage of
VxWorks AE's powerful new features such as memory protection,
resource management, and application isolation, but still expect
system performance similar to industry-standard RTOSs like VxWorks
5.4.
No. 515, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
APC Expands DC
Protection To VoIP CPE
American Power Conversion announced an expansion to its DC
power protection offering with a 48 volt DC batter backup unit,
designed to meet the PacketCable standard for VoIP telephony
equipment. APC's PowerShield offers cable telephony, wireless local
loop, and fiber to the home services a simple, cost-effective local
power solution for the Network Interface Unit, helping to ensure
that home network communications remain running during power
disturbances and outages, and increasing the availability of
telephony systems, including primary line communications such as
911.
No. 516, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
I-Bus/Phoenix Intros
G8 cPCI Enclosure
I-Bus/Phoenix has announced its G8 Basic CompactPCI System,
an open-frame, single-rack construction system offering 7 expansion
slots, three 5 1/4" drives, one 3 1/2" drive, and up to a
600W power supply in a 6U enclosure. The rear panel has support for
I/O expansion modules, and additional options include a fan tray
with up to 4 fans and redundant hot swap power supply.
No. 517, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
Trenton Announces CBU
SBC
Trenton Technology has announced its CBU SBC with the Intel
Flexible Socket 270 package. The CBU has a dual SCSI interface, dual
Ethernet interfaces, and the Intel 440BX AGPset and onboard video.
As an option, you can get the 440GX AGPset, which gives you up to
1GB memory. The dual SCSI interfaces support two concurrently
operating channels and burst data to the host at speeds of up to
160Mbps, providing critical high-speed connectivity.
No. 518, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
RADVision Unveils
High Performance SIP Toolkit
RADVision unveiled its new high performance Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) toolkit for developing SIP entities and SIP-based
applications. The RADVision SIP toolkit is RFC2543 (SIP) and RFC2327
(SDP -- Sessions Description Protocol) compliant and is suitable for
the development of any of the logical entities defined in SIP,
including User Agent, Proxy, Redirect Server, and Registrar.
"We have a huge customer base that relies on us to provide them
with everything they need to stay ahead of the technology
curve," said Ami Amir, RADVision's CEO. "Our SIP
implementation is another technology innovation that will provide an
important competitive edge in terms of performance and functionality
to our customers who are interested in developing SIP-based products
and services. Designed for speed, RADVision's high performance
multi-threaded SIP implementation utilizes a unique parsing engine.
Separate dedicated parsers are used for SIP and SDP parsing.
RADVision's exclusive "one-time on-demand" parsing
provides further performance enhancements by parsing only the
required message parts, only when required. Designed also for
extensibility and customization, RADVision's SIP toolkit uses an
intuitive, layered, object-oriented API. Developers can use
callbacks and hooks to inject customized code to modify stack
behavior to accommodate new extensions for expanded functionality
beyond the baseline specification.
No. 519, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
Sonus OSPA Continues
To Build Momentum
Sonus Networks has expanded its Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA)
with the addition of five new members: Avant Telecoms, Innovative
Systems, Integral Access, NexTone Communications, and VocalData. The
OSPA, which has a membership of 42 leading telecom companies,
facilitates the rapid development and delivery of competitive new
services by carriers, application service providers, and third-party
independent service developers. Sonus's newest partners in the OSPA
offer telecommunications carriers a variety of software and hardware
solutions and services:
- Avant Telecoms provides turnkey
solutions for telecommunications projects requiring expertise in
systems engineering, high-level solution design, documentation
services, and project management.
- Innovative Systems has developed a
multi-function, SCP-like service platform that combines the
telephony and Internet infrastructures with the Advanced
Intelligent Network (AIN) and a service creation environment (SCE).
- Integral Access delivers
PurePacket, a multi-service access system that uses MPLS to
route, transport, and switch voice and data transmissions in
packet format, and supports the GR-303 and MGCP standards for
enabling competitive carriers to offer differentiated services
across IP-based and traditional circuit-switched
infrastructures.
- NexTone Communications provides
the iVANi system, a range of CPE and application servers
designed to ease the deployment of enhanced voice, data, and fax
services, lower access costs, and improve operational
efficiencies.
- VocalData offers the VOISS
solution, an open, standards-based service delivery softswitch
that allows service providers to offer voice services and
enhanced voice applications to businesses over next-gen
networks.
No. 520, comsolmag.com/freeinfo
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