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Motorola Plans New Platforms to Lower Cost of Entry and Extend Reach of AdvancedTCA®
Previews High-Availability Middleware Compliant with Service Availability Forum Specifications
CTIA, New Orleans - March 15, 2005 - Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today revealed plans for new products that will help telecom equipment manufacturers gain the time-to-market and cost advantages of adopting AdvancedTCA® at a lower cost of entry. These new application-enabling platforms will support highly scalable deployment models for telecom applications, while helping to preserve important technology investments.
At CTIA Wireless 2005, Motorola is previewing this new highly scalable, low-profile AdvancedTCA platform. It is also debuting its Service Availability Forum compliant high-availability (HA) middleware.
“Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) want to streamline their supply chains and, where possible, purchase pre-integrated, validated platforms from a smaller number of proven suppliers. Large-scale ATCA system vendors, such as Motorola, are able to participate in the re-engineering of OEM supply chains and are well positioned to meet this need,” commented Gabriel Brown, chief analyst at Light Reading Insider, an independent telecommunications research service.
“Recent announcements by telecom equipment manufacturers such as Nortel demonstrate that a growing number of OEMs are moving to open standards-based common platforms across their product portfolios,” said Wendy Vittori, corporate vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “Computing platforms based on AdvancedTCA technology can deliver significant time-to-market, cost and flexibility benefits to both telecom equipment manufacturers and network operators. By having more choices in terms of platform size and level of integration, our customers will be able to address even more telecom applications and help AdvancedTCA achieve the economies of scale necessary to reach its full potential.”
New Highly Scalable Platforms
A new family of highly scalable AdvancedTCA low-profile platforms will be launched in calendar Q2/2005 to address cost-sensitive applications. These platforms will be based on low-profile AdvancedTCA enclosures. This approach significantly reduces the cost of entry-level products and allows cost-efficient expansion to support a growing customer base, while enabling enhanced levels of service availability to be achieved through shelf-level redundancy. These new platforms will be pre-integrated and validated by Motorola to deliver the same time-to-market and resource allocation benefits as the company’s other application-enabling platforms. They will use the same blade set, software and system components as Motorola’s other AdvancedTCA platforms to provide capex and opex efficiencies throughout the value chain.
“Some applications simply require a smaller platform with fewer blades – for example, a session border controller or network gateway platform,” said Chris Williams, director of switched platforms, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “Other hosted service applications require platforms with a low-cost entry point. Our new platforms will enable services to be delivered cost-efficiently to a small customer base, with the ability to expand as demand grows.”
Extended High-Availability Platform Range
A new series of advanced integrated platforms to be launched in Q2/2005 will incorporate Motorola HA middleware that implements the Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification.
The Service Availability (SA) Forum is a group of computer and communications companies that have come together to develop specifications for standard interfaces, which support carrier-grade service availability and application portability between platforms.
“Our strategy is to integrate our SA Forum-compliant HA middleware into Motorola Application-Enabling Platforms and offer it as a standalone product that can be integrated into non-Motorola systems,” continued Chris Williams. “Application portability simplifies platform rightsizing and future technology upgrades.”
Functional equivalence between Motorola’s current and planned product series will make it easier for customers to migrate between them to meet their business needs. Helping customers protect their investments is a key part of the company’s strategy, so AXP and MXP platforms from Motorola, together with current Centellis™ and EndurX™ platforms formerly from Force Computers, will continue to be supported.
Showing at CTIA Wireless 2005
At CTIA Wireless 2005 in New Orleans, Motorola will preview the new, highly scalable AdvancedTCA Application-Enabling Platform in the Motorola booth, Hall C, number 3145.
A proof-of-concept demonstration of Motorola HA middleware, which fully implements the SA Forum Application Interface and Hardware Platform Interface Specifications, will be running in the SA Forum booth, Hall A, number 861.
In the PICMG booth, Hall A, number 657, Motorola will showcase its latest AdvancedTCA Application-Enabling Platform – the EndurX CO 31KX Advanced Integrated Platform – running an HA failover demonstration.
Motorola is shaping the future of embedded communications computing with standards-based Application-Enabling Platforms and embedded building blocks for telecommunications, industrial automation, medical imaging and aerospace/defense applications. Motorola is a trusted supplier that makes it easier for OEMs to create better products faster and more cost-effectively. For more information: 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.
Business Risks
Statements about AdvancedTCA or HA Middleware demonstrations or application-enabling platforms and the functionality of these products are forward-looking and involve risk and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements include unforeseen events related to the product architecture, performance of the products to standards, performance of participant products and other factors in Motorola’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Media Contacts
Rick Gimbel
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+1 602 438 3503
rick.gimbel@motorola.com
Shreek Raivadera
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+44 (0) 1509 634461
shreek@motorola.com
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© Motorola, Inc. 2005.
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