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New Motorola Software Implements Service Availability Forum Standards
Standards-based Common Application Environment Helps to Accelerate Development and Enhance Portability of Application Software
SUPERCOMM 2005 -- Chicago June, 6, 2005 -- Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today announced NetPlane™ Software, a family of software products that provides a standards-based software execution environment for equipment that delivers high levels of service availability. Motorola’s NetPlane Software enables equipment manufacturers to focus their resources on developing value-added applications, accelerating the development and deployment of next-generation products.
The new NetPlane software is fully integrated into Motorola’s new Avantellis™ series of AdvancedTCA®-based Open Application-Enabling Platforms, communications servers that make it easier and quicker for equipment manufacturers to develop applications and deploy new products. NetPlane software is designed to support a broad spectrum of applications in telecommunications and other industries that require a combination of computing power, high-performance communications and “always on” capability.
At SUPERCOMM 2005 in Chicago from June 7-9 in booth # 48039 Motorola will demonstrate NetPlane Software as part of its Avantellis 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 standards.
“The move within the telecom industry to build and deploy platforms based on open standards has accelerated significantly over the last year,” said Rob Rich, EVP at the Yankee Group. “The development and adoption of various versions of Service Availability Forum middleware by major players indicates that the move towards standards is becoming pervasive, encompassing platform software as well as hardware. The growth of an ecosystem to supply standards-based telecom software provides the industry the potential to accelerate the deployment of new services, giving more rapid access to a broad variety of applications as well as generating economies of scale.”
“Products in the NetPlane Software family have open standard interfaces and are designed to be platform-independent and portable,” said Wade Campbell, director of strategic marketing, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “This software portability enables equipment manufacturers to maintain a common, consistent software execution environment across multiple hardware platforms that meet the performance and cost requirements of their customers. This level of portability also makes it easier to provide upgrade paths, preserving technology investments across successive product generations.”
The first product in the NetPlane family is NetPlane Core Services software, a suite of high service availability middleware that implements the SA Forum AIS and HPI. Application software can easily migrate between computing platforms that run SA Forum compliant middleware. NetPlane Core Services is hardware independent and is adapted to run on a specific hardware platform through a complementary product, NetPlane Platform Control Software.
IBM and Motorola have announced that NetPlane Core Services and NetPlane Platform Control Software will be available on IBM eServer BladeCenter family, where it provides an SA Forum-compliant middleware component within the Carrier Grade Open Framework.
The press release on this collaboration with IBM is available at:
www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,5580_5571_23,00.html
In addition to the SA Forum AIS and HPI, NetPlane Core Services provides a range of additional capabilities essential to an open, distributed, middleware environment. These include a flexible porting mechanism, event and transaction logging, monitoring of system resources and a range of open, standards based management interface options, including SNMP and XML.
The NetPlane execution environment includes a comprehensive range of application services, protocols, application enablers, high availability services, operating systems and hardware services. The reliability, scalability and portability of the NetPlane Software environment means that equipment manufacturers can confidently adopt NetPlane Software as the foundation for their next-generation products.
A press release on Motorola’s new Open Application-Enabling Platforms is available at: www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,5581_5572_23,00.html
Service Availability Forum
The SA Forum is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies, working to develop and publish software interface specifications for high availability and systems management. Highly Available computing platforms include mechanisms that detect and isolate faulty hardware, switch in redundant hardware modules, and provide a platform management interface. These mechanisms are typically controlled by a software layer called “High Availability Middleware”. The SA Forum HPI specification defines the interface between High Availability Middleware and the hardware and operating system(s) that make up the underlying computing platform. The higher layer AIS defines the application programming interface between the High Availability Middleware and the application. This separates applications from direct interaction with hardware, making them inherently more portable.
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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