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The Linux Foundation's Carrier Grade Linux Workgroup improves Linux to better meet the needs of network equipment providers and telecommunications carriers. "Carrier grade" is a term for software and hardware products that support public telecommunications and data communications networks. Carrier grade products require extremely high degrees of reliability, scalability, and performance to provide an uninterrupted flow of the enormous volume of high-bandwidth data and voice needed for today's multimedia communications. Leading network equipment providers such as NEC, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, and others have made MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition the most widely-deployed Linux in the carrier grade market. Dan Cauchy of MontaVista is the chairman of the Carrier Grade Linux Workgroup.
MontaVista Software is an Associate Member of the CE Linux
Forum (CELF). This is an industry group that is focused on
the advancement of Linux as an open source platform for consumer
electronics devices. CELF intends to operate completely within
the letter and the spirit of the open source community which
is consistent with MontaVista Software's philosophy and practices.
The China Open Source Software Promotion Union (COPU) is an alliance of business enterprises, universities, research institutions, government agencies, and industry associations, including The Linux Foundation. COPU was founded in 2004 in Beijing, China, to promote the development of Linux and open source software in China, and to promote cooperation on open source issues between China, Japan, and Korea.
MontaVista Software serves on the board of Directors of Eclipse.
Eclipse is an open source community of software development
tool vendors and tool developers that has formed the core
of a community interested in collaborating to create better
development environments and product integration. The community
shares an interest in creating products that are integrated
and inter-operable in an easy to use way based upon plug-in
technology.
MontaVista Software was a founding member of the Embedded
Linux Consortium. The ELC was a non-profit, vendor-neutral
trade association whose goal was the advancement and promotion
of Linux throughout the embedded computing markets.
MontaVista Software is a Gold Member of the Free Standards
Group. The Free Standards Group is an independent, non-profit
organization dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance
of open source technologies through the development, application
and promotion of standards.
MontaVista Software was one of the first members of the Ready
for IBM Technology program from IBM. The Ready for IBM Technology
mark identifies solutions that have been tested and validated
for compatibility with IBM Microelectronics products by the
solution developers and assures that these solutions are compatible
with IBM Microelectronics products.
MontaVista Software is an Associate member of the Intel®
Communications Alliance (ICA). The ICA is a community of communications
and embedded developers and solutions providers who share
a common vision on the convergence of computing technologies.
MontaVista joins member companies within the Alliance who
are committed to the development of modular, standards based
building blocks, platforms, and solutions based on Intel technologies,
processors, products, and services.
The objectives of the Japan Embedded Linux Consortium are
to promote the embedded Linux industry and engage in activities
to foster expansion of the choices that users can make with
confidence. MontaVista Software serves on the board of Emblix.
The LiMo Foundation is a non-profit organization of companies working together to create the world's first
globally competitive Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. As the world's leading supplier of Linux
for mobile devices, MontaVista plays an important role in the LiMo Foundation's efforts.
The Linux Foundation is the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux.
MontaVista was a founding member of OSDL, The Linux Foundation's predecessor organization.
The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) will accelerate the adoption of Linux® in fixed, mobile and
converged telephony devices by standardizing Linux-based services and APIs that directly influence the development,
deployment, and interoperability of applications and end user services.
Open Bar is a not-for-profit organization founded with the goals of (i) developing clear information about the legal rights and responsibilities of software developers, legal professionals and users of software in the emerging arena of open source software; and (ii) educating software developers, legal professionals and the general public about the issues, rights and responsibilities associated with the development, use and distribution of open source software. MontaVista vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel Jason Wacha is director and founder of Open Bar, and MontaVista Software is a founding sponsor.
PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) is a
consortium of over 700 companies who collaboratively develop
specifications that adapt PCI technology for use in industrial
and telecommunications applications. PICMG specifications
include CompactPCIR for Eurocard, rackmount applications and
PCI/ISA for passive backplane, standard format cards. PICMG's
mission is to extend the PCI standard, as approved by the
PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG), for computer systems
such as PCI/ISA, PCI/EISA and the PCI/3U or 6U Eurocard form
factor known as CompactPCI.
Power.org open community collaborates on hardware and software specifications, standards and solutions based on
the Power Architecture platform. Power Architecture technology is behind millions of innovative products, including
the world's fastest supercomputers, leading video game consoles, and electronic systems in most of today's car models.
Every phone call, email and Web page touches hundreds of Power Architecture systems. MontaVista is a sponsoring member
of Power.org.
MontaVista Software, a sponsor-level member of RapidIO was
the first Linux company to join this organization. The RapidIO
Trade Association is a non-profit organization headquartered
in Austin, Texas, which was formed to drive the adoption of
an open standard, high-performance interconnect architecture.
RapidIO is a logical extension to the widely-deployed MontaVista
Linux Professional Edition, in a variety of networking client
devices, and to the recently announced MontaVista Linux Carrier
Grade Edition, targeted at highly available, high performance
telecommunications and networking infrastructure applications.
The nonprofit SCOPE Alliance is an association of leading Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) with the mission of enabling and promoting the availability and interoperability of open carrier grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) building blocks. SCOPE is a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO). 鼎arrier grade" is a term for software and hardware products that support public telecommunications and data communications networks. Carrier grade products require extremely high degrees of reliability, scalability, and performance to provide an uninterrupted flow of the enormous volume of high-bandwidth data and voice needed for today's multimedia communications. Leading network equipment providers such as NEC, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, and others have made MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition the most widely-deployed Linux in the carrier grade market.
MontaVista Software is a member of the SD Card Association.
The SD Card standard is being built into a wide range of new
digital products such as cellular phones, audio players, automotive
multimedia systems, handheld PC's and video and digital still
cameras.
The Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) is a coalition
of the world's premier communications and computing companies
working together to create and promote open, standard availability
interface specifications. Such specifications are needed to
quickly and efficiently build global communications systems
that deliver highly available voice, data and multimedia services.
MontaVista Software is a founding member of the SA Forum.
MontaVista is a valued member of the SH-Mobile Consortium
membership. This consortium comprises of LSI, IP providers,
system integrators, and software providers, all collaborating
to create a unique mobile phone solution. The aim of consortium
is to provide support for hardware, software, and mobile phone
terminal developers, to support the growing SH-Mobile ecosystem.
MontaVista Software is a Board member of the The T-Engine
Forum. This forum has been established to offer a standard
real-time system development platform for constructing a ubiquitous
computing environment. T-Engine is a new standardized development
platform into which the eTRON architecture has been installed.
The eTRON architecture enables the secure transfer of information
and rights through insecure network channels such as the Internet.
The T-Engine Forum has been established to research and develop
the T-Engine specification.


