Artesyn Partners With MontaVista to Offer Carrier Grade Linux for AdvancedTCA Telecom Blades and AdvancedMC Modules
September 20 2005 - 11:31AM
PR Newswire (US)
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Artesyn
Communication Products, a subsidiary of Artesyn Technologies
(NASDAQ:ATSN), today announced that it has partnered with
MontaVista to offer MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE)
for its telecom blades and modules. Artesyn will offer bundled,
certified MontaVista CGE solutions for its PICMG 2.16, AdvancedTCA,
AdvancedMC, ProcessorPMC blades and modules, preinstalled in flash
memory. Artesyn blades and modules equipped with MontaVista CGE
provide a modular open architecture platform for building
scaleable, high-availability network infrastructure equipment.
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"Embedded Linux is emerging as a dominant platform for building
high- availability network infrastructure products, and we are
committed to offering our telecom equipment OEM customers the
finest carrier grade Linux solutions," said Todd Wynia, vice
president of marketing at Artesyn. "Soon, Network Equipment
Providers (NEPs) will be able to purchase MontaVista's carrier
grade Linux directly from Artesyn, certified by MontaVista, and
pre-installed in flash on our telecom blades and modules."
MontaVista Linux CGE is an open and flexible development platform
designed specifically to address the unique and demanding
requirements of carrier grade class applications, with a strong
focus on open standards and high availability services. MontaVista
CGE is the industry's most field tested and proven Linux
distribution. It is the only carrier grade Linux deployed by the
world's leading NEPs in carrier networks for over three generations
of product, and it serves as the foundation for advanced telecom
solutions currently in design. MontaVista CGE is also the only
carrier grade Linux operating system that complies with both the
Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Application Interface
Specifications for high availability services and the Open Source
Development Lab's (OSDL) requirements for Carrier Grade Linux 2.0.
"As the telecom industry responds to the extreme pressure to
redesign their networks and introduce new advanced capabilities,
NEPs are requiring a reliable, robust and flexible software
platform to build out sophisticated designs while not putting their
project schedules at risk," said Peder Ulander, vice president of
marketing at MontaVista. "Artesyn has been a pioneer in the
development of open architecture telecom platforms and recognizes
the need for the telecom industry to leverage cost-effective off-
the-shelf (COTS) components with advanced Linux technologies.
MontaVista atop Artesyn's blades and modules gives our joint
customers a tested, out of the box, best of breed foundation for
building and deploying reliable, feature-rich, carrier-class
solutions." MontaVista CGE is available immediately from MontaVista
for Artesyn's PICMG 2.16 Katana 750i, 752i, 3750 and 3752 blades,
which feature PowerPC processing complexes, high-performance
packet-switched backplane interfaces, PMC/PTMC mezzanine expansion,
and integrated IPMI system management. MontaVista CGE is also
available for Artesyn's PowerQUICC-based Pm8560 protocol engine, an
octal E1/T1 card optimized for SS7/SIGTRAN signaling. Artesyn will
announce bundled, certified MontaVista CGE solutions for select
PICMG 2.16, AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC and ProcessorPMC blades and
modules at a future date. "We're excited to see Artesyn and
MontaVista join forces, and look forward to working with them on
future PowerPC- and PowerQUICC processor-based high-availability
Linux platforms," said Jeff Timbs, a marketing director at
Freescale Semiconductor's Networking and Computing Systems Group.
"Artesyn blades running MontaVista CGE provide an excellent open
architecture platform for developing and deploying telecom
infrastructure applications targeting Freescale processors." About
Artesyn Technologies, Inc. Artesyn Technologies, Inc.,
headquartered in Boca Raton, FL., is a world leader in the design,
manufacture and sale of power conversion and single- board
computing solutions for infrastructure applications in
telecommunications and data-communications systems. The Company's
products are used in middle to high-end servers, data storage
devices, routers, hubs, high- speed modems, RF amplification
systems, base station controllers and transceivers. The Company has
a global sales reach with design and manufacturing facilities in
Asia, Europe and North America. Artesyn is a public company whose
common stock is traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol
ATSN. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at
http://www.artesyn.com/ . About MontaVista Software MontaVista
Software is the leading embedded Linux provider for the
telecommunications market, delivering a complete, flexible and open
operating system that allows system designers to innovate across a
wide range of mobile and wireless devices and communications
infrastructures. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system
pioneer James Ready, and headquartered in the heart of Silicon
Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista's commercial-grade Linux
helps customers differentiate their products and get them to market
faster and at a lower development cost. For more information about
MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com/ .
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+1-608-831-5500, , or Pamela Rembaum, Director, Investor Relations,
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