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Enea, MontaVista Join Forces

Online Staff -- Electronic News, 4/6/2006

Software suppliers Enea and MontaVista Software announced this week at the Embedded Systems Conference that they have partnered to create a software platform for distributed telecom applications.

The new high-availability, fault tolerant platform is known as the Network Application Services Platform (NASP). It provides a telecom-in-a-box product for developing, deploying and managing distributed telecom applications spanning multiple operating systems, CPUs, DSPs, interconnects and shelf architectures, according to the companies. 

The NASP will be available in June. It combines MontaVista's Linux operating system products (Carrier Grade Edition or Professional Edition) with Enea's high-availability Element middleware, Polyhedra fault-tolerant database and Eclipse-based development tools. The NASP will also be available with Enea's OSE and OSEck RTOSes for distributed telecom infrastructure environments that require a heterogeneous operating environment, the companies said.

The NASP utilizes Enea's recently announced LINX open source interprocess communications (IPC) services to facilitate transparent, high-performance communications between NASP components and applications across multiple OS and CPU/DSP boundaries.

The NASP provides a platform for deploying a broad range of high-availability applications, from supervisory control and enterprise management software, to DSP-based media processing applications, Enea and MontaVista said. The NASP supports a variety of OS configurations, from standalone Linux, to hybrid configurations utilizing Linux, OSE and OSEck. The three OSes can be deployed in any topology across multiple shelves and blades, and even on the same multi-core device, said the companies.