Piscataway, New Jersey, July 23, 2007 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), today announced that CorEdge, ENEA, GE Fanuc, Nortel, PrismTech, RedHat, Ulticom and VirtualLogix, have joined the Alliance, 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 (COTS) building blocks.
“SCOPE is pleased to welcome these companies to the Alliance. The ongoing work of the Alliance will be greatly enhanced by these new members” said Magnus Karlson, chairman of the SCOPE Alliance. He went on to say “the resources, experience, area expertise and perspective of these leading companies added to our existing members makes for a powerful combination that can generate timely results.”
Both the hardware and software supply chain as well as specification organizations continue to embrace the work undertaken by the SCOPE Alliance. With Nortel as a member, the Alliance now includes within its ranks a great majority of the leading global NEPs. The inclusion of every new member further increases the depth and breadth of expertise in all areas including hardware, operating systems, signaling, middleware and virtualization technologies.
"The work of the SCOPE Alliance is extremely valuable and we are pleased to be adding our resources and contributions" said Sita Lowman Carrier Core Marketing leader of Nortel. "The SCOPE Alliance provides the developers and ecosystem vendors clear direction which greatly enhances the applicability of final products."
About SCOPE Alliance
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.
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About CorEdge Networks
CorEdge Networks is a leading supplier of ATCA/MicroTCA/AMC/IPMI compliant infrastructure products including the industry's first MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH), 10GbE MCH, MicroTCA Power Module, PicoTCA development platform, 10Gbps and 20Gbps FPGA-based AMCs and full ATCA Cutaway Carrier. CorEdge Networks customers include a number of leading telecom, military and embedded systems companies. Most MicroTCA working deployments use one or more CorEdge Networks components. For more detailed information on CorEdge Networks, see www.coredgenetworks.com.
About Enea
Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA) is the leading supplier of real-time operating systems, middleware, development tools, database technology and professional services for high-availability systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, mobile devices, medical instrumentation, and automobile control/infotainment. Enea’s flagship operating system, OSE™, is deployed in approximately half of the world’s 3G mobile phones and base stations. Enea has over 500 employees and is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm. For further information on Enea, please visit www.enea.com.
About GE Fanuc Embedded Systems
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems is a leading global provider of embedded computing solutions for a wide range of industries and applications, including telecommunications. The company is acknowledged as a leader in AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC and MicroTCA, having been instrumental in the development of the respective specifications and thus having intimate familiarity with them. This familiarity has led to the development of one of the broadest ranges of solutions in the industry - including, for example, a line of AdvancedMC modules that includes the multicore Cavium Octeon Telum packet processor. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems is part of GE Fanuc, a joint venture between GE and FANUC LTD of Japan. For more information, visit www.gefanucembedded.com.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
About PrismTech
PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in state-of-the-art software products for developers of standards-based, carrier-grade systems. The Company provides high-performance COTS middleware, productivity tools, and professional services for applications ranging from mission-critical distributed systems to embedded Real-time devices. It serves markets such as: Commercial Telecom, Defense, Aerospace and Homeland Security. PrismTech’s customers constitute an impressive list of major systems integrators, network equipment providers and other OEMs, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. PrismTech was founded in 1992 and is a privately-held group with US operations based in Boston, MA and Saddle Brook, NJ, and European operations in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands and France. For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at www.prismtech.com.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: www.redhat.com.
About Ulticom, Inc.
Ulticom is a leading provider of service essential signaling solutions for wireless, wireline, and Internet communications. For over a decade, communication systems and service providers have relied on Ulticom to deliver standards-based, carrier-grade signaling solutions for the most demanding network applications. Ulticom products are used to enable the deployment of payment, switching, mobility, messaging, and location services. All products are backed by a complete suite of support services designed to meet the unique needs of Ulticom's customers, empowering them to rapidly deploy their solutions while minimizing risk. For more information, please visit www.ulticom.com.
About VirtualLogix, Inc.
VirtualLogix™, Inc. is the global leader in Real-Time Virtualization™ technology for connected devices. VirtualLogix VLX enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance and security options to address specific market requirements. As a result, the world's largest semiconductor companies, manufacturers, OEMs and carriers are able to reduce development and bill of material costs, improve time to market by leveraging existing software investments, and create conditions that meet their business goals. With more than 20 years of experience developing system software for network infrastructure, digital multimedia and mobile handsets, VirtualLogix is paving the way for the development of next generation connected devices. VirtualLogix, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. with operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.virtuallogix.com.