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ATCA Newsletter for April 2008 – May 2008

Features:

  • CP-TA Update
  • Update on the Service Availability Forum
  • Interview with Leslie Guth, Marketing Officer, and Tero Mustala, Marketing Co-chair, SCOPE Alliance
  • The Eclipse Foundation announced new initiatives to develop open source technologies for embedded and mobile developers
  • OpenSAF: Yet Another Standards Organization
  • MicroTCA Price Points for 2008
  • Storage Architectures for AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA
  • Functional Test Automation without Programming
  • Stand Alone Signaling Gateways Based on MicroTCA
  • Automated Testing of Networking Devices
  • Testing and Deploying WIMAX Systems
AdvancedTCA Summit

Network Equipment Providers Team to Promote Open Specifications and Accelerate Development of Carrier Grade Base Platforms

Leading network equipment providers Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens have launched SCOPE, an industry alliance to accelerate the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and free open source software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. Read more…

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AdvancedTCA Summit focuses on the AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA standards for backplanes in telecommunications equipment. These standards allow manufacturers to develop equipment in a standard form and provide for expansion, interoperability, maintenance, and replacement via simple insertion or removal of boards. AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA also offer access to the latest high-speed chips and communications standards, hot-swapping (replacement of boards without powering down the system – and thus interrupting service), and a larger power budget than previous standards. Note that AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA are just backplanes into which one plugs circuit boards of a particular type and size. AdvancedMC or AMC is a mezzanine card specification that allows designers to make small additions, revisions, or updates (via a piggyback board) to existing AdvancedTCA boards (thus avoiding expensive board changes). MicroTCA is a backplane based on small AMC cards without any full AdvancedTCA boards at all (for smaller applications with size or cost restrictions).