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Motorola Spotlights a New Class of Computers: The ‘Communications Server’ Takes Center Stage
Architected for Telecom and Other Applications Requiring Computing Power and High-Performance Communications
SUPERCOMM 2005 -- Chicago June, 6, 2005 -- Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today spotlighted the “communications server,” a new class of computer architected to address exploding global demand for next-generation communications applications such as converged services over wireline and wireless networks.
Employing open industry-standard technologies, communications servers are designed to deliver high service availability. They incorporate an array of technologies required to manage advanced communications computing applications, including general purpose processing, multimedia processing, routing and packet processing capabilities.
“Communications service providers are under increasing pressure to quickly deliver differentiated new services and applications, while improving cost effectiveness, availability and performance,” said Rob Rich, Executive Vice President, Yankee Group, a leading industry analyst firm. “The availability of highly scalable, secure, standards-based servers with carrier grade reliability will be critical to the success of these new initiatives.”
Helping drive acceptance of this common platform will be the future rapid global demand for seamless mobility, Motorola’s vision for empowering consumers and work groups with contiguous communications across networks, delivering the ability to communicate voice and data from a single communications device, whether at home, work or on the road.
“The greatest market opportunities for equipment manufacturers in communications-intensive industries involve applications that combine voice, data and video transmitted seamlessly and reliably,” said Wendy Vittori, corporate vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “To keep up with the stringent demands these applications place on their support servers and networks, a new class of embedded computer is needed – the communications server. This new style of computing element is architected on open industry standards and is able to handle a broad range of communications computing applications. Motorola’s Open Application-Enabling Platforms are pre-integrated and validated communications servers that can help shorten equipment manufacturers’ time-to-market, lower their CapEx and OpEx and enhance the end-user’s experience, spurring global demand for new services.”
A communications server has a unique combination of attributes, including:
- Open standards-based common platform
- High Availability (>5NINES) and serviceability
- Support for value-add communications applications
- Multi-media and network processing capabilities
- Extended life cycle
“Just as the enterprise server and enterprise computing emerged 20 years ago to address a major market need, we believe the communications server and communications computing will emerge and evolve for the same reason,” Vittori said. “Motorola is strongly positioned to lead the emergence of the communications server into widespread implementation because we have extensive industry experience, resources and global reach. The converged future requires lower cost infrastructure for delivering integrated communications applications, and Motorola is prepared to lead this evolution.”
At SUPERCOMM 2005 in Chicago from June 7-9 in booth # 48039 Motorola will demonstrate the Avantellis™ series and Centellis™ 3000 series of Open Application-Enabling Platforms, communications servers based on the AdvancedTCA® and Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) Application Interface Specification (AIS) and Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) open industry standard. The Avantellis series includes NetPlane™ Software, a standards-based software execution environment that provides a range of services necessary to build telecom applications. The Centellis 3000 series is optimized for legacy applications based on proprietary high-availability software.
Press releases on these new products are available at:
Avantellis series and Centellis 3000 series
www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,5581_5572_23,00.html
NetPlane™ Software
www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,5582_5573_23,00.html
At SUPERCOMM 2005, Motorola also announced strategic technology directions to maximize and accelerate the benefits of open industry standards for developers of communications-intensive applications. Motorola’s strategic technology directions include developing a new generation of Open Application-Enabling Platforms based on the MicroTCA standard; and selecting Ethernet as the data fabric for the company’s AdvancedTCA communications servers.
The press release on this announcement is available at:
Technology direction release
www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,5583_5574_23,00.html
About Motorola’s Open Application-Enabling Platforms
Open Application-Enabling Platforms are pre-integrated and validated communications servers architected to support a wide range of communications computing applications. Equipment manufacturers can focus on adding application-specific value, reducing the time, cost and risk involved in deploying new revenue-generating applications. They also can improve operating efficiencies by consolidating more of their product portfolio onto a common platform based on open standards. More information is available at www.motorola.com/computing.
About Motorola
Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information: www.motorola.com.
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Media Contacts:
Lee Ann Kuster
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+1 602 438 3623
leeannkuster@motorola.com
Shreek Raivadera
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+44 (0) 1509 634461
shreek@motorola.com
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. AdvancedTCA is a registered trademark of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group. © Motorola, Inc. 2005
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