Making Telecommunications Equipment Design Hardware Independent. Henry Turko, Board Member SA Forum Dr. Asif Naseem, Board Member SA Forum

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1 Making Telecommunications Equipment Design Hardware Independent Henry Turko, Board Member SA Forum Dr. Asif Naseem, Board Member SA Forum ATCA Summit, December 2005

2 Agenda SA Forum overview State of the industry About HPI Hardware management capabilities System architecture and design Benefits of HPI Conclusions Q & A Slide 2

3 Service Availability Forum Overview Players Consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies Mission Foster an ecosystem to enable the use of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability network infrastructure products, systems and services Approach Develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications Promote and facilitate their adoption by the industry Enables commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem Hardware and operating system agnostic Slide 3

4 Service Availability Forum Members Alcatel Artesyn AudioCodes Augmentix Clovis Solutions Continuous Computing Ericsson AB ESO Technologies Fujitsu Limited Fujitsu Siemens Computers GNP GoAhead Software Hewlett-Packard Huawei IBM Intel ITRI Kontron Slide 4

5 Slide 5 Service Availability Forum Members Lucent Technologies MontaVista Software Motorola NEC Nokia Nortel Networks NTT Oracle Corporation OSA Technologies Pigeon Point Systems Radisys Siemens AG Solid Information Technology Sun Microsystems Symantec TietoEnator UXComm Wind River Systems

6 SA Forum Specifications Service Availability Middleware Other Middleware & App Services Implementation of SA Forum specifications is crucial to enabling the industry to build an interoperable, multi-service network capable of ensuring continuous delivery of voice, data and multimedia services to service providers and end-user customers. Hardware Platform Management Service Availability System Example (Simplified) Slide 6

7 Dr. Asif Naseem Board Member, Service Availability Forum

8 State of the Industry Business challenges The profitability squeeze Time to revenue Adapting to new platforms and technologies Technical challenges Long development and integration cycles Little or no re-use New, un-tested software Missed deadlines or cancelled projects Slide 8

9 Market in Transition Gain Efficiencies By Moving to Platform-Independent, Standards-Based COTS Software Proprietary Standards-Based Off-the-shelf Network Element Proprietary Applications Proprietary Middleware Proprietary Real-time Operating System Proprietary Hardware SA Forum SMS SA Forum AIS SA Forum HPI Network Element Proprietary Applications Application Interface COTS HA Middleware Hardware Interface Standard Operating Systems Standard, High Value Hardware Slide 9

10 SA Forum s Response Systems Management Interface Application A Application B Application C Application D Application E Hardware Platform Interface IBM BladeCenter T Application Interface SA Forum - Service Availability Middleware Hardware Platform Interface SA Forum-HPI Implementation Advanced Micro TCA TCA Communications Servers Hardware Platform Interface SA Forum-HPI Implementation Other Platform Hardware Common abstraction layers across multiple platforms Rapid portability with a common service availability framework Slide 10

11 Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) A published specification that defines the interface between the hardware and the HA middleware and makes each independent of the other Enables applications to discover, manage, and monitor the hardware resources in the system Allows the use of COTS middleware building blocks Eliminates the proprietary application/middleware interface, allowing for faster porting of applications to multiple platforms Application / Middleware SA Forum-HPI Implementation HPI Specification Slide 11 Platform Hardware

12 Hardware Management Capabilities Enable management applications to discover, manage, and monitor the hardware entities in a system from powered on to power off Resource and entity discovery Reset state management Power state management Managed hot swap Alarm management Management instruments associated with HPI entities Event notifications Configuration System and resource event logs Slide 12

13 System Architecture/Design Fault Management Alarm Management Hot Swap Management Management Middleware System Model Hardware Resource Configuration Hardware Resource Dependencies HPI HPI Service Platform Management Power Management Thermal Management Slide 13

14 Functional Benefits of HPI Facilitates representation of hardware entities in the system model Comprehensive availability management Provides the facilities for fault, alarm, and hot swap management policies and actions More comprehensive system management policies Utilized across multiple platform form factors, such as AdvancedTCA, CompactPCI, and rack mounted servers Platform independent to standardized interface Slide 14

15 Business Benefits of HPI Customers of embedded equipment increasing demand for flexibility and platform independence Reduces effort required to move platform management components from one HPI-enabled platform to another Slide 15

16 SA Forum Specification Evolution SMS Candidate released June 2005 AIS A Released April 2003 AIS B Released November 2004 Consolidated Release Scheduled for release December 2005 HPI A Released October 2002 Systems deployed HPI B Released May 2004 Systems deployed 2002/ Slide 16

17 Conclusions The SA Forum specifications are key to open HA platforms Standards-based mechanism for service availability Rapid adoption across multiple hardware platforms Opportunity to easily partner with complementary products Systems in development Implementations available now Support for most configurations Opportunity for companies across the industry Time to revenue flexibility to easily combine applications Cost efficiency application re-use in multiple environments Slide 17 Investment protection migration to new platforms

18 Slide 18 Q & A

19 SA Forum Contacts General Information: SA Forum Specifications Joining the SA Forum Key Contacts: Kelly Soye SA Forum Administration Phone: Jim Lawrence Member Relations Officer, SA Forum Phone: Lori Zielinski SA Forum PR Phone: Slide 19

20 Thank you! Dr. Asif Naseem Senior Vice President and CTO GoAhead Software Slide 20

21 Open Specifications for Service Availability