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SCOPE Announces Middleware Portability Project and CPU Benchmarking Recommendations

Piscataway, NJ, December 16, 2009 - SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced its Middleware Portability Project and CPU Benchmarking Recommendations. Both initiatives provide the commercial off-the-shelf ecosystem vendors with new insights into NEPs’ requirements for middleware and benchmarking.

16 Dec 2009
SCOPE Alliance Details I/O Virtualization Technology for Telecom Industry

Piscataway, NJ, April 28, 2009 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced the release of a new I/O Virtualization (IOV) white paper entitled I/O Virtualization: A NEP Perspective. The paper outlines the I/O virtualization landscape for NEPs and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem vendors, and provides a detailed look on how virtualization technology affects them.

28 Apr 2009
Telecom Network Equipment Providers Gather to Identify Opportunities, Challenges for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Solutions

San Jose, Calif. April 28, 2009 – Dozens of leading companies and industry alliances spanning the telecommunications network equipment industry gathered today in San Jose at the ATCA & Communications Ecosystem Conference to discuss the current state of AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) and related hardware standards, middleware solutions, and carrier-grade operating systems.

28 Apr 2009
SCOPE Alliance Elects 2009 Officers

Piscataway, NJ, February 24, 2009 - The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced the election of its 2009 officers. The new officers represent member companies NEC, Ericsson, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks.

24 Feb 2009
SCOPE Alliance Releases Technical Position Paper Describing its Stance on influencing the Telecom Industry

Piscataway, NJ, October 16, 2008 - The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced the release of its new Technical Position Paper, The SCOPE Alliance - Influencing the Agenda. SCOPE members have developed a common reference architecture and understanding of open specifications to enable a vibrant carrier-grade base platform (CGBP) ecosystem.

16 Oct 2008
New Members Join SCOPE Alliance to Help Promote Open Carrier Grade Base Platforms for Service Provider Applications

Diverse new membership widens SCOPE’s competency base

Piscataway, NJ, June 12, 2008 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of the leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced that IBM has joined as a Contributor member. Astute Networks, Conference ConCepts and Freescale Semiconductor have also joined the alliance as Supporter members. Each new member has committed to support SCOPE’s mission of enabling and promoting the availability and interoperability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) building blocks.

12 Jun 2008
SCOPE Alliance Addresses Virtualization for Carrier-Grade Telecommunications Solutions

Piscataway, NJ, May 28, 2008 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced the availability of its Virtualization Package containing three technical white papers that discuss different aspects of virtualization. Virtualization is an emerging technology that provides benefits in areas such as porting legacy software on new platform technology, optimizing hardware resource usage and using multi-core processors.

28 May 2008
SCOPE Alliance Addresses MicroTCA and Long Life Cycle Support in Newly Released Profiles

Piscataway, NJ, February 19, 2008 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced the availability of its MicroTCA Hardware Profile and its Services and Support Profile addressing Long Life Cycle Support. In addition, SCOPE announced its 2008 officers. The Alliance developed the profiles to help prevent fragmentation in the telecommunications market, reduce development costs, decrease cycle times, and encourage the use of common building blocks in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem.

19 Feb 2008
SCOPE Alliance Releases White Paper on Mapping Java Platform Enterprise Edition and SAF: A NEP Perspective

Piscataway, NJ, 29 November 2007 - The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today published a new white paper “Mapping Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and SAForum: A NEP Perspective” in support of SCOPE’s mission of enabling and promoting the availability and interoperability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms (CGBP) based on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) building blocks.

29 Nov 2007
Nortel becomes a “sponsor” of SCOPE Alliance.

Piscataway, NJ, 24 October 2007 - The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading network equipment providers, today announced that Nortel has increased its level of participation in the Alliance becoming a sponsor member committing to support SCOPE’s mission of enabling and promoting the availability and interoperability of open carrier-grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf building blocks. Also, Nortel has joined the SCOPE Alliance Board of Directors.

24 Oct 2007
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