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.
"To date, SCOPE has worked tirelessly to enable and promote the availability and interoperability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf building blocks," said SCOPE President Chris Wardale. "I look forward to working with our new officers in 2009 to continue to drive new areas of technical work as well as enable the full usage of our technical documents released to date."
The following officers have been elected by SCOPE to lead the organization's 2009 efforts.
SCOPE Alliance will continue to address power management this year with a focus on helping the telecom industry become more "green." SCOPE plans to identify areas for the ecosystem to develop energy-saving measures for high-availability servers. During 2009, the organization will release its first white paper on power management, describing how power saving features that exist in normal IT industry servers can now be used in high-availability servers. The white paper will explain how these features can be leveraged for telecom and identify areas where standardization is still needed.
In 2008, SCOPE released its newest Technical Position Paper, The SCOPE Alliance – Influencing the Agenda. The paper provides a perspective on the SCOPE requirements for network elements, allowing COTS component vendors and industry organizations to better meet NEPs' needs.
During the past year, SCOPE also tackled virtualization. The organization released a package that contains three white papers that address different aspects of virtualization, including the State-of-the-Art, Use Cases and Requirements of virtualization. The group also released its Environmental Profile that delineates environmental requirements of the world telecommunications market for network element equipment.
For more information about SCOPE's plans or to download any of the documents, visit www.scope-alliance.org.The SCOPE Alliance is an association of Network Equipment Providers aimed at accelerating the deployment of Carrier Grade Base Platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to enable and promote the availability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. For more information about the SCOPE Alliance, visit www.scope-alliance.org.
Lori Zielinski
+1.503.619.0852
Nereus for SCOPE Alliance
lzielinski@nereus-worldwide.com
Michelle Hunt
+1.732.981.3434
IEEE-ISTO
michelle.hunt@ieee-isto.org