Motorola Initiates Industry-Wide Project . . .
OpenSAF Aims to Accelerate Broad Adoption Through Common Software Platform
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT)
today announced it is initiating a new open source project to develop a
complete high availability operating environment based on Service Availability
Forum(TM) (SA Forum) standards. The objective of the new "OpenSAF" project is
to accelerate broad adoption of an SA Forum compliant operating environment.
The goals of the OpenSAF project are to:
-- Create an open source implementation of a high availability operating
environment which includes the SA Forum Application Interface
Specification (AIS)
-- Develop necessary additional complementary services necessary to deploy
and manage the software
-- Accelerate the development of SA Forum specifications by proposing
enhancements implemented in the OpenSAF project
-- Establish a broadly adopted high availability operating environment
that can be leveraged by computing technology companies, NEPs, and
other industries requiring high availability, and ISVs
-- Utilize an open source licensing model not tied to any commercial
implementation
With this approach, network equipment providers (NEPs) will be able to
leverage the implementation of a deployed high availability software platform
with the knowledge that enhancements will be proposed to the SA Forum for
inclusion in future open specifications. NEPs also will be able to help
service providers lower operating costs by using a common software platform
across multiple types of equipment. Common predictive actions and common
provisioning and monitoring interfaces will help reduce training and
specialization, enabling service providers to use their resources more
flexibly, efficiently and productively.
Many NEPs have endorsed the concept of the OpenSAF initiative, including
Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC), Motorola's Networks and Enterprise business, Nokia
(NYSE: NOK), Nortel (NYSE: NT), OKI (TYO: 6703), and Siemens Networks.
Several providers of computing and communications technology also have
indicated support for the OpenSAF initiative including Interphase
(Nasdaq: INPH), MontaVista Software, Inc., and Wind River (Nasdaq: WIND).
Both Motorola and Ericsson will contribute resources from the beginning of
the initiative to enhance the open source product and accelerate the
development and deployment of SA Forum specifications based on industry
requirements. Motorola initially will contribute its NetPlane(R) Core Service
(NCS) software to the OpenSAF project. NCS is a complete operating environment
that includes SA Forum services and a complementary set of required services
necessary for a deployable implementation.
Hakan Eriksson, chief technology officer, Ericsson: "Ericsson is a strong
supporter of initiatives such as OpenSAF. By focusing on reference
implementations for established standards, we believe that OpenSAF can both
accelerate the development and improve the quality of future specifications."
Asif Naseem, president of SA Forum: "The SA Forum's HPI specification is
already delivering benefits as a widely adopted industry standard. The OpenSAF
project will help repeat that success with the SA Forum AIS specification,
extending those benefits to all developers of platforms that require 5NINES
availability. Customer adoption of the AIS implementation depends on real
world implementations of the standard, and Motorola's implementation
contributes to the ongoing success of SA Forum."
Stephen Dow, vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications
Computing, Motorola, Inc: "Feedback from our NEP customers has prompted us to
undertake this initiative as an open source project can leverage development
resources throughout the industry. This can lead to more rapid development of
a fully featured deployable reference implementation of SA Forum compliant
high availability software for a wide range of platforms."
Magnus Karlson, chairman of the board, SCOPE Alliance: "The OpenSAF
project is consistent with the SCOPE Alliance goal of promoting and enabling
an ecosystem of both suppliers and consumers of COTS building blocks based on
open source and open interface specifications. SCOPE views implementations
like OpenSAF as important test beds for standardization enhancements, and
mechanisms for accelerating the adoption of new features for COTS building
blocks."
Ken Klein, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president at
Wind River: "Collaborative, open source development plays a significant role
in Wind River's device software optimization strategy and we welcome the
opportunity to actively participate in the OpenSAF initiative. We believe this
effort will result in a reliable, feature-rich high-availability framework for
our networks customers. We are committed to including support for OpenSAF in
Wind River(R) Workbench, our industry-leading comprehensive set of device
software development tools, thus providing customers a common development
environment across multiple software development projects."
Jorge Magalhaes, director of marketing, Embedded Communications Computing,
Motorola, Inc.: "We will transition our Avantellis(TM) series communications
servers to utilize OpenSAF. This will make a pre-integrated and validated ATCA
based computing platform available to the market shortly after the first
release of the open source code."
Tom Kelly, Chairman & CEO, MontaVista Software: "As a long time
contributor to the OpenAIS open source work, MontaVista is excited to support
the OpenSAF initiative. Combined with ATCA based hardware and a Carrier Grade
Linux operating system, OpenSAF provides a key high-availability component to
complete a full carrier grade commercial-off-the-shelf solution. MontaVista
will include support of OpenSAF in our MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition
and our DevRocket development tool suite."
The first release of the open source code base will be made available by
end of 2nd quarter on the OpenSAF Web site ( www.OpenSAF.org ).
About SCOPE
The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading network equipment providers,
is committed to accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms
for service provider applications.
About SA Forum
The Service Availability Forum(TM) is a consortium of industry-leading
communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish
high availability and management software interface specifications.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in
wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless
mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply
and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and
need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do"
experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support
services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had
sales of US $42.9 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our
people and our innovations, please visit www.Motorola.com .
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About Motorola's NetPlane Core Services (NCS) Software
NetPlane Core Services (NCS) is a middleware suite that is Motorola's
implementation of a distributed, high-availability operating environment that
is platform and operating system agnostic. It includes an implementation of
the SA Forum Application Interface Specification (AIS) B.01.1 revision and an
additional set of infrastructure services necessary for a complete high-
availability operating environment implementation. The set of services can be
summarized as follows:
SA Forum Compliant Services
-- Availability management framework
-- Checkpoint service
-- Global lock service
-- Event distribution service
-- Message queue service
NCS Complementary Services
-- Message distribution service
-- Message based checkpointing service
-- Interface service
-- Management access service
-- Persistent store/restore service
-- Distributed tracing service
-- System resource monitoring service
-- Command line interface
-- Layered Environment for Accelerated Portability (LEAP)
