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Motorola and IBM Collaborate on Open Systems Platform for Telecom Industry
Unveil Motorola NetPlane Core Services for IBM eServer Integrated Platform for Telecommunications
SUPERCOMM 2005 - Chicago -- June, 6, 2005 -- Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today announced that IBM will offer Motorola NetPlane™ Core Services software as a key middleware component of the IBM eServer Integrated Platform for Telecommunications.
NetPlane Core Services is Motorola’s platform-independent implementation of the Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) Application Interface Specification (AIS) and Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). This open, high availability middleware was first introduced with Motorola’s Avantellis™ 3000 Series of AdvancedTCA®-based communications servers.
The availability of NetPlane Core Services software on both the IBM eServer BladeCenter family and the Motorola Avantellis Series provides equipment manufacturers a highly flexible, cost-effective, common software environment “from enterprise to network edge.”
"This collaboration reflects the move to a commercial off-the-shelf-based (COTS) computing infrastructure to support the convergence of enterprise and communications computing applications in the telecom industry," said Wendy Vittori, corporate vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. "Working with industry leaders such as IBM to create integrated, COTS-based telecom computing platforms enables Motorola to help the industry realize a common, standards-based, high availability software environment essential for rapid delivery of next generation services."
“Both IBM and Motorola are committed to open industry standards like SA Forum and OCAF for telecommunications equipment manufacturers and next generation networks,” said Jim Pertzborn, vice president of the Telecommunications Industry, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “The combined strengths of BladeCenter and middleware solutions like Motorola’s NetPlane Core Services will help accelerate the adoption of open computing platform standards for commercial off-the-shelf technology for telco applications and systems.”
NetPlane Core Services software is being demonstrated at SUPERCOMM 2005 in Motorola booth #48039 and SA Forum booth #71022. Motorola’s NetPlane Core Services for IBM eServer BladeCenter family is being demonstrated in IBM booth #64045. At SUPERCOMM, Motorola is also previewing a Voice over IP media processing blade for IBM eServer BladeCenter.
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
Motorola, Inc., Embedded Communications Computing
(602) 438-3623
leannkuster@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. IBM, BladeCenter, BladeCenter T, eServer, xSeries, Integrated Platform for Telecommunications (IPT) and the IBM e-business logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. For a list of additional IBM trademarks, please see www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml
© Motorola, Inc. 2005
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