Press Releases
GoAhead® Software, an expert in high availability middleware for systems requiring 99.999% availability or greater, today announced a standards-based, pre-integrated high availability solution on IBM BladeCenter T. By integrating the GoAhead SelfReliant® high availability middleware with the IBM BladeCenter, a common managed platform for network element and dataplane applications, network equipment providers can significantly accelerate their time to market while reducing project costs.
“Standards-based components enable network equipment providers to build a complete platform with best-in-class solutions at each layer in the stack,” states Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. “The integration between these components, however, is not trivial. With this solution, GoAhead and IBM are offering that integration out-of-box, enabling the equipment providers to significantly speed time to market.”
The integrated solution includes validated capabilities such as platform management and comprehensive high availability and system management. Key features include resource discovery and system model instantiation, shelf manager integration, alarm management, hot swap management and integration with IBM systems management capabilities. This functionality is accomplished through the use of the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI).
“As IBM BladeCenter continues to lead the blade server industry and BladeCenter T continues to offer leading systems targeted at the telecommunications industry, we are seeing a demand from customers for an application-ready platform,” said Jim Pertzborn, vice president, IBM Telecommunications Industry Servers. “With this solution from IBM and GoAhead, equipment providers can ensure carrier grade availability without the burden of integration.”
One such customer leveraging the IBM and GoAhead combination is Sonim, a leader in the emerging market for mobile VoIP push-to-talk (PTT) solutions for enterprises. Sonim recently
announced commercial availability of the first fully redundant implementation of Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA) PoC (PTT over Cellular) 1.0, the new IMS-compliant standard for PTT interoperability.
“Sonim sealed its position as first to market with a cost-efficient, OMA PoC application that achieves 99.999% availability,” states Paul Longhenry, vice president of business development for Sonim. “This was largely possible by leveraging standards-based solutions, IBM BladeCenter T and GoAhead SelfReliant, which enabled Sonim to accelerate its development cycle and focus on the application layer,” Longhenry explains.
Another customer is Bridgeport, a leader in mobile VoIP convergence. Bridgeport utilized both IBM and GoAhead to ensure 99.999% availability its next generation NomadicOne product family, which extends mobile identity across IP networks to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices such as dual-mode mobile phones, PDAs and laptops, as well as any SIP-end device, such as wired and cordless SIP phones.
“By leveraging IBM BladeCenter T and GoAhead software, we were able to develop a common high availability platform for the next generation of the NomadicOne product line, our network convergence gateway solution,” says Steve Blumenthal, CTO of Bridgeport Networks. “We are able to ensure application portability and as a result, significantly reduce integration costs.”
About GoAhead
GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 15,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417 or lwilliams@goahead.com
GoAhead and SelfReliant are registered trademarks of GoAhead Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
About Sonim Technologies, Inc.
Sonim Technologies enables today’s GPRS, UMTS, EVDO, WiFi and WiMAX data networks to deliver high-performance mobile VoIP “Push-to-X” applications and services, specifically optimized to meet the productivity objectives of mobile enterprises. Sonim’s OMA PoC 1.0 server, client and handset solutions represent the industry’s only business class implementation of the push-to-talk standard and form the basis of an emerging suite of streaming IMS-compliant applications. Sonim is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Bangalore, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris and Stockholm. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.sonimtech.com or learn more about the push to talk at www.mobilesforworkers.com .
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Press Releases
GoAhead Offers Standards-Based, Pre-Integrated High Availability Solution on IBM BladeCenter
ITU TELECOM WORLD, Hong Kong -- December 4, 2006
Network Equipment Providers Speed Time-to-Market and Reduce Costs with Application-Ready Platform
GoAhead® Software, an expert in high availability middleware for systems requiring 99.999% availability or greater, today announced a standards-based, pre-integrated high availability solution on IBM BladeCenter T. By integrating the GoAhead SelfReliant® high availability middleware with the IBM BladeCenter, a common managed platform for network element and dataplane applications, network equipment providers can significantly accelerate their time to market while reducing project costs.
“Standards-based components enable network equipment providers to build a complete platform with best-in-class solutions at each layer in the stack,” states Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. “The integration between these components, however, is not trivial. With this solution, GoAhead and IBM are offering that integration out-of-box, enabling the equipment providers to significantly speed time to market.”
The integrated solution includes validated capabilities such as platform management and comprehensive high availability and system management. Key features include resource discovery and system model instantiation, shelf manager integration, alarm management, hot swap management and integration with IBM systems management capabilities. This functionality is accomplished through the use of the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI).
“As IBM BladeCenter continues to lead the blade server industry and BladeCenter T continues to offer leading systems targeted at the telecommunications industry, we are seeing a demand from customers for an application-ready platform,” said Jim Pertzborn, vice president, IBM Telecommunications Industry Servers. “With this solution from IBM and GoAhead, equipment providers can ensure carrier grade availability without the burden of integration.”
One such customer leveraging the IBM and GoAhead combination is Sonim, a leader in the emerging market for mobile VoIP push-to-talk (PTT) solutions for enterprises. Sonim recently
announced commercial availability of the first fully redundant implementation of Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA) PoC (PTT over Cellular) 1.0, the new IMS-compliant standard for PTT interoperability.
“Sonim sealed its position as first to market with a cost-efficient, OMA PoC application that achieves 99.999% availability,” states Paul Longhenry, vice president of business development for Sonim. “This was largely possible by leveraging standards-based solutions, IBM BladeCenter T and GoAhead SelfReliant, which enabled Sonim to accelerate its development cycle and focus on the application layer,” Longhenry explains.
Another customer is Bridgeport, a leader in mobile VoIP convergence. Bridgeport utilized both IBM and GoAhead to ensure 99.999% availability its next generation NomadicOne product family, which extends mobile identity across IP networks to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices such as dual-mode mobile phones, PDAs and laptops, as well as any SIP-end device, such as wired and cordless SIP phones.
“By leveraging IBM BladeCenter T and GoAhead software, we were able to develop a common high availability platform for the next generation of the NomadicOne product line, our network convergence gateway solution,” says Steve Blumenthal, CTO of Bridgeport Networks. “We are able to ensure application portability and as a result, significantly reduce integration costs.”
About GoAhead
GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 15,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417 or lwilliams@goahead.com
GoAhead and SelfReliant are registered trademarks of GoAhead Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
About Sonim Technologies, Inc.
Sonim Technologies enables today’s GPRS, UMTS, EVDO, WiFi and WiMAX data networks to deliver high-performance mobile VoIP “Push-to-X” applications and services, specifically optimized to meet the productivity objectives of mobile enterprises. Sonim’s OMA PoC 1.0 server, client and handset solutions represent the industry’s only business class implementation of the push-to-talk standard and form the basis of an emerging suite of streaming IMS-compliant applications. Sonim is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Bangalore, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris and Stockholm. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.sonimtech.com or learn more about the push to talk at www.mobilesforworkers.com .
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Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
