SCOPE Alliance Hosts Workshop and Releases White Paper

By Timo Jokiaho, SCOPE Alliance

SCOPE Alliance hosted its “Technology Advances in Carrier Grade Base Platforms” member workshop May 4-5 at the historic Maison de la Chimie (“the House of Chemistry”) in Paris, France.

Executive presenters from SCOPE member companies offered perspectives on key platform technology advances and industry trends that affect Carrier Grade Base Platforms (CGBPs).
Presenters and attendees examined AdvancedTCA technology evolution, PICMG AdvancedTCA extensions, and processor, memory, power, and thermal trends, among other issues. The goal was to identify cost-effective ways to improve power efficiency and increase backplane bandwidth.

Attendees made real headway towards identifying the opportunities and challenges presented by recent technology advances and trends in carrier grade base platforms. They also set the stage for ongoing discussion among industry leaders.

Immediately following the workshop, SCOPE released its “Telecom Grade Cloud Computing” white paper now available at www.scope-alliance.org. The paper describes the characteristics that make cloud computing usable for telecom and real-time services. It provides a telecom perspective on cloud computing standardization efforts and creates a common work agenda for SCOPE in furthering its relationships with standardization bodies.

SCOPE members can review workshop presentations at www.scope-alliance.org.

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For more information about the SCOPE Alliance, please visit www.scope-alliance.org.

Timo Jokiaho, CTO, Base Platform at Huawei Technologies, is the 2011 Chair of the SCOPE Alliance. You can reach him via the Alliance’s press representative, Karen Riley Sawyer of Nereus, at krileysawyer@nereus-worldwide.com.