Diversified Technology, Inc. Announces its ATC4130 AdvancedTCA Node Blade is Now Available with MontaVista® Linux® Carrier Grade Edition
DTI's Carrier Grade Linux is MontaVista Partner Certified
Ridgeland, MS - March 29, 2005 - Diversified Technology, Inc. announced today, MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition support for the ATC4130 Node Blade. This provides a carrier-grade Linux solution designed for telecommunications and data communications products with requirements for high availability, fault management and real-time performance. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition addresses telecom availability needs in compliance with Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Service Availability (SA) Forum feature requirements, which are important benchmarks for telecommunications service providers.
"The growing relationship between Diversified Technology, Inc. and MontaVista Software is strengthened by this new AdvancedTCA solution designed for the growing communications market," noted Joe McDevitt, DTI's AdvancedTCA Program Manager. "MontaVista's comprehensive development of Carrier Grade Linux for telco environments supports DTI's position in promoting high availability and reliability in its AdvancedTCA offerings. This ATC4130 Linux solution is an AdvancedTCA node blade package that reflects a cost-effective, rapid launch initiative that is the reality of today's market. The customer requires enhanced services via next generation platforms and Diversified Technology, Inc. has answered the call for this ever-changing infrastructure."
DTI's OEM partnership with MontaVista Software enables Diversified Technology to help mutual customers shorten their time to revenue, by providing an out-of-the-box MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade runtime configuration for DTI's latest IA32 technology-based blades. This partnership allows DTI to develop LSP's for its products and provide a first line of support for them. The OEM partnership provides a flexible model to meet the requirements of a wide variety of customers.
"Linux is becoming the next generation development platform for many network equipment providers," said Glenn Seiler, Director of Product Marketing, MontaVista Software. "By certifying MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition for the ATC4130 Node Blade, DTI and MontaVista will address the needs of our mutual customers by providing a complete carrier grade solution that is scalable and flexible for network-intensive infrastructure applications."
About
the ATC4130
The ATC4130 is Diversified Technology's Intel® Xeon® based Processor
Node Board designed for the next generation of telecom equipment markets.
The board is a PICMG® 3.1 compliant packet-switched processor blade
that combines low price with high performance for wireless access/edge,
telecom fibre transport, media gateways, soft switches, and Internet IP-based
applications.
The blade was designed around the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group's (PICMG) new 3.0 specification (AdvancedTCA), which is an open embedded standard for new hardware platforms in "carrier-grade" networks. DTI's ATC4130 is equipped with a low power, 2.4 GHz Intel® Xeon® Processor with 512KB L2 cache. It utilizes a high I/O bandwidth Intel® E7501 server-class chipset with 400MHz front side bus and support for up to 4GB of memory. Located on-board are two 10/100/1000Mbits/sec Ethernet ports for the base interface, two 1000Mbits/sec Ethernet ports for the fabric interface, two 64-bit/66MHz PMC sites for user configuration, and other peripherals designed to assist in the development of future networked AdvancedTCA® blades and systems.
The board fully supports the ATCA concept of separate data and control plane traffic when paired with DTI's ATS1136. The ATC4130 is compliant with the ATCA 3.1 specification via Option 1.
The ATC4130 utilizes an AMI® Embedded BIOS that supports booting from HD, CD-ROM, or the network. Console redirection, PnP, and PCI auto-configuration are also supported. A variety of operating systems are supported including MontaVista® Linux CGE, Windows® 2000/XP, and .Net Server.
Diversified Technology, Inc., an Ergon Company, has been a leading designer/manufacturer of single board computers, embedded platforms, and rackmount systems in the embedded computing market for over 35 years. As a silver member of the Intel® Communications Alliance and an ISO9001 certified company, DTI provides Intel® Architecture-based computer boards, systems, and products for next generation processing applications. For more information of Diversified Technology, Inc., visit us on the web at (http://www.diversifiedtechnology.com).
This innovative product is an industry standard COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) Carrier Grade Linux platform providing functionality specifically for Telecom and Datacom with high availability, hardening and real-time performance. CGE is an advanced Linux-based development platform engineered specifically for the robust and highly available requirements of carrier grade applications. CGE is being used today in telecommunications and data communications applications for use in communications network infrastructure solutions. CGE is targeted for edge and core telecommunications including applications for the converging IP and voice networks such as softswitches, SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) and GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node), RNC (Radio Network Controller), Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways, and many other applications. It enhances standard Linux with additional real-time, high availability and high reliability features based on the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux Specification, and it is ideal for deployment in a range of carrier-grade environments.
About
MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software provides an Open Source platform, allowing system
designers to innovate across a wide range of inter-connected intelligent
devices and communications infrastructure. MontaVista enables software
developers with a commercial-grade Linux-based operating system. MontaVista
Linux is a universal development platform that helps customers differentiate
their products, and get them to market faster at lower overall development
costs. MontaVista Linux is the preferred choice of some of the world's
largest corporations.
Founded in 1999, by real-time operating system pioneer James Ready, and headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading venture capital firms and strategic corporate investors. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com.
Joel Deer; Marketing Communications; joel.deer@dtims.com; 601.856.4121
Customer
Contact Information:
DTI Sales; Diversified Technology, Inc.; 476 Highland Colony Parkway,
Ridgeland, MS 39157
1.800.443.2667; sales@dtims.com;
www.diversifiedtechnology.com