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Motorola Computer Group Announces Extensive Real-Time Operating System Support for Its High-Availability Telecommunications Platform
Business Wire - August 23, 1999 07:35
TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 1999--Motorola Computer Group (MCG), the world's leading supplier of embedded computing platforms for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Monday announced extensive real-time operating system support for its award-winning CPX8000 family of High-Availability, CompactPCI(R)-based embedded computing platforms.
Supporting real-time operating systems on this open platform will allow telecommunications OEMs to standardize on a common system platform that can be used across a broad range of data and telephony applications in both carrier and enterprise markets. This will help enable them to get to market faster and at a lower cost.
The CPX8000 series is intended for applications that need to meet or exceed "five-nines" (99.999 percent) availability -- equivalent to less than five minutes and 15 seconds of planned and unplanned downtime per year.
"OEMs building High-Availability applications such as IP telephony, e-commerce, cellular base stations, and central office switches have significant investments in application code, training and engineering," said John Hughes, vice president and director, Telecommunications Business Unit, MCG.
"To get to market quickly with their next-generation systems, they expect to re-use much of that software, which means they are typically aligned to a single operating system vendor.
"By providing breadth of operating system support, we're helping our customers rapidly and cost efficiently achieve the 'five-nines' capability required for today's increasingly complex telecommunications applications."
MCG has licensed its High-Availability technology to its real-time partners and is assisting with development and compatibility testing. The extensions to the partners' operating systems include hot swap services and management of system resources that are key to supporting a High-Availability system with a high level of redundant capability and fault detection, correction and recovery.
Partners currently announcing CPX8000 support are:
-- Enea OSE Systems AB (Taby, Sweden), which is announcing support for PowerPC(R) configurations of the CPX8000; -- Lynx Real Time Systems (San Jose, Calif.), which is releasing LynxOS 3.1 that adds support for Pentium to the existing PowerPC configuration; -- Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), which is releasing pSOSystem 3.0 for support of both Pentium(R) and PowerPC configurations; -- QNX Software Systems Ltd. (Kanata, Canada), which is announcing QNX Neutrino 2.0 that will support both Pentium and PowerPC configurations; -- Wind River Systems, which is releasing VxWorks(R)version 5.4 and Tornado(TM)version 2.0 for support of both Pentium and PowerPC configurations.
The wide choice of operating systems is further enhanced by MCG's relationship with GoAhead(R) Software, also announced today. Through this relationship, GoAhead will provide comprehensive High-Availability software for the CPX8000 that will help isolate the customer's application from either hardware or software faults.
GoAhead HighAvailability(TM) provides dynamic configuration management, heartbeating and checkpointing for active elements within a system, including hardware, applications and operating system components.
"OEM customers need a single platform that provides a standard set of hardware and software high-availability functions integrated with their operating system of choice," said Jim Airy, vice president of marketing, GoAhead. "Partnering with MCG allows us to provide the telecommunications industry with this long-awaited turnkey solution."
High-Availability Features
The key feature that makes High Availability possible on open-architecture CompactPCI technology is the built-in redundancy of every active system component, which enables any active module to be exchanged for repair or upgrade while the system continues to operate.
By expanding the operating systems across which MCG can deliver this crucial capability, MCG is now able to provide its customers with the increased flexibility necessary to design systems that more closely fit their customers needs.
The CPX8000 systems have a number of hardware features essential to reaching "five-nines" availability:
-- Redundant and hot swappable CompactPCI cards, including system CPUs -- Hot swappable power supplies, cooling, disk drive carriers and alarm panel -- N+1 power and cooling individual card and system level alarming -- Redundancy and a short mean time to repair (MTTR) in all critical resources
The CPX8000 platform is capable of achieving High Availability when combined with the following software capability offered from MCG and our partners:
-- Basic and full Hot-Swap management -- Monitoring of chassis health and automated responses to events -- Detection and recovery from failed processors via heartbeat triggers -- 2N or N+N host processor switchover
The CPX8000 systems also include the following features:
-- Either Pentium or PowerPC CPUs to meet OEM's specific system needs. -- Optional H.110 Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) bus to provide enhanced communication between voice and data-handling interfaces. -- AC or DC power supplies for increased flexibility in deployed environment.
About Motorola
Motorola Computer Group (MCG), headquartered in Tempe, is the world's leading supplier of embedded computing platforms to OEMs for use in telecommunications, imaging and industrial automation applications worldwide. MCG provides best-in-class solutions by combining its advanced design engineering capability with responsive, world-class manufacturing operations.
Additional information about MCG is available on the World Wide Web at www.mcg.mot.com
MCG is part of Motorola's Integrated Electronics Systems Sector (IESS), a division of Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT). IESS is a leading provider of electronic systems for customers who integrate them into their products. The five businesses of IESS deliver high value embedded electronic solutions that enable customers to differentiate their products and lead their markets.
Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4 billion.
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Comments from Real-Time Operating System Companies
Enea OSE Systems AB, www.enea.com
"CompactPCI's hot-swap specification is the industry's first open, interoperable specification to allow suppliers to independently develop compatible telecom products. For high availability, a real-time operating system must provide the intelligence to monitor, detect, and continue to operate upon the removal, addition or failure of software or hardware components. With the combination of OSE and CompactPCI, Enea OSE Systems and Motorola Computer Group can offer the telecom and datacom market a cost effective, reliable off-the-shelf solution, which significantly shortens the time to market versus using a proprietary system."
Kia Ahnfelt, Vice President, Marketing, Enea OSE Systems AB
Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), www.isi.com
"High-availability is critical to our telecom customers. They need embedded reliability to the 'five-nines' level. To meet our customers needs we will be releasing pSOSystem 3.0 with extensive support for high-availability requirements. Telecomms have a huge need for off-the-shelf HA systems. Motorola's CPX8000 with pSOSystem 3.0 can cut months from development schedules and can increase our customers' revenues significantly."
Mark Pittman Sr., Director, Product Marketing, Integrated Systems Inc.
Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc., www.lynx.com
"It has been our pleasure to work with Motorola to develop the first commercial RTOS High Availability/Hot Swap package on the CPX8216. Since the production release of LynxOS Hot Swap Package early this year, LynxOS has provided Full Hot Swap support for the MCP750 PowerPC CPUs in Motorola Computer Group's CPX family of Hot Swap and High-Availability platforms. With LynxOS 3.1 we have expanded our level RTOS HA support to include the new Pentium CPV5350 CompactPCI CPUs."
Brian Ramsey, Director, Communications Marketing, Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc.,
QNX Software Systems Ltd., www.qnx.com
"MCG is taking a leadership position in delivering complete time-to-market solutions for the high-availability market. As a result of joint technology development, we see the MCG CPX8000 program and QNX Neutrino RTOS delivering a significant business advantage in the highly competitive telecommunications market."
Linda Campbell, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Wind River Systems Inc., www.windriver.com
"Wind River is committed to developing innovative solutions that meet our customers' needs. By working together with Motorola Computer Group to create a High Availability solution involving both hardware and software, we are providing our shared customers with leading-edge technology that will significantly aid them in their application development."
Curt Schacker, Vice President of Marketing, Wind River Systems
CONTACT: Motorola Computer Group
Terri Thorson, 602/438-3287
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