Tony Romero —

Tony reminds us of the objectives aimed for during PICMG’s development of the Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) specification and notes that specification’s place in endeavors including Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMAX.

Venkataraman Prasannan —

AdvancedMCs provide an effective means to implement standards-based modular entities, but they might not be a solution for everything. Determining the right fit requires an understanding of thermals, connectivity, usage models, and functional modularity.

Joe Pavlat —

AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, and AdvancedMCs are coming into their own.

Hermann Strass —

Hermann describes the role a CompactPCI SBC plays for VoIP interoperatbility testing.

Curt Schwaderer —

Solutions that address the problem of added latency between participating nodes in a traditional interconnect scheme are appearing to aid multimedia.

OSP —

CompactPCI's hardiness is revealed in a recent merchant embedded computing report.

Terry Morgan —

(EoIP) is the essential first step toward achieving emergency responder interoperability.

Ilan Weizman —

In this paper, we will first examine the market drivers and competing service delivery technologies for mobile video. We will then review several leading mobile video services, and present selected video-processing extensions for mobile video delivery platforms. Finally, we will conclude by summarizing the benefits of mobile video for telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and systems integrators (SIs) on the one hand, and for mobile network operators (MNOs) and value-added service providers (VASPs) on the other.

Robert Sullivan and Clayton Tucker —

The time has arrived. MicroTCA is emerging as a capable architecture, with applications spanning commercial, industrial, medical, telecommunications, and federal markets.

Nirlay Kundu —

Presenting the argument that a focus by TEMs on niche application areas, leaving the basic system building activities to xTCA building block providers, makes sense.

Gary Lee —

The features available in advanced Ethernet switches such as QoS, congestion management, load distribution, and advanced header processing can help Carrier Ethernet become a standards-based methodology for transporting Ethernet packets between customer locations across the WAN.

Sven Freudenfeld —

IPTV developers can focus on application differentiation by taking advantage of CP-TA tested building blocks.

Paul Dinh —

Along with compactness, higher functionality and density, as well as reliability, nonvolatility, faster access speed, and lighter weight make AMC with Flash a significant new technology.

Joe Pavlat —

Interoperability requirements have been established. Now for the next steps.

Hermann Strass —

Hermann surveys key global players affecting AdvancedTCA growth.

Curt Schwaderer —

Here is an example of how convergence of multiple services into one integrated product can result in multimedia business solutions that provide a robust set of services, yet minimize capital and operational expense.

Ni Jinjiang, Todd Keaffaber, Nirlay Kundu, Zhu Zengxi —

B-STAR, in coordination with CP-TA, integrated an IPTV application using ATCA building blocks tested with CP-TA’s test tools. The goal was to quantitatively show a reduction in integration time using hardware components that were CP-TA tested. This paper documents B-STAR’s integration effort and serves as a process template exemplifying the use of CP-TA’s test tools and standardized test report.

PICMG —

Here's PICMG's primer on the show which took place June 16th through 19th at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

SCOPE Alliance —

NGN (Next Generation Networks) and Service layer applications have high requirements on rapid development and deployment of new services. To meet these requirements Java EE is used to a large extent, however in the telecom domain, carrier grade high availability and fault tolerance is a norm and it also needs to be valid for Java EE applications to a larger extent than today.

SCOPE Alliance —

This document presents virtualization requirements that have been identified by the SCOPE Alliance Virtualization Working Group as being necessary for the NEPs/TEMs networking/telecommunications systems. These virtualization requirements are associated with the use cases from which they were derived and have been aggregated into categories.

SCOPE Alliance —

This document presents the state-of-the-art of virtualization as a foundation for further work of the SCOPE Alliance Virtualization Working Group. It also provides a glossary of virtualization terminology that will be used in further work of the SCOPE Alliance Virtualization Working Group.

SCOPE Alliance —

The SCOPE Alliance Virtualization Working Group aims to provide a set of hardware and software requirements that describe functional and non-functional aspects of virtualization features required by the NEPs.

Masako Robertson and Howard Curtiss —

This Portelligent paper overviews developments in fourth-generation wireless networks and handsets in Korea and Japan, including the technologies LTE, UMB, and WiMAX, and such regional variants as "WiBro" and "Super 3G."

Mike Coward —

As packet processing-intensive demands become more and more common, that demand is being answered within the AdvancedTCA ecosystem by advanced switch, packet processing, and CPU functionality.

Mike Christofferson —

As highly available and high-performance real-time processing becomes ever more critical, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers are seeking fine-grain monitoring, control, debug, and fault management capabilities.