Telecom equipment provider RadiSys will resell and support MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) on its family of AdvancedTCA (ATCA) products, the companies have announced. The RadiSys “Promentum” ATCA products target TEMs (telecom equipment manufacturers), and support several other OSes, including several brands of Linux.

RadiSys's Promentum family includes:

• Promentum ATCA-1000, a universal PMC processing module
• Promentum ATCA-2100, a switch and control module
• Promentum ATCA-3000, a disk storage module
• Promentum ATCA-4000, a compute processing module
• Promentum ATCA-6000, a 12U chassis
• Promentum SYS-6000 ATCA blade server platform (pictured above)

According to RadiSys partner program manager Anthony Woods, RadiSys is OS-agnostic, and supports a variety of operating systems through VAR relationships with partners in its RadiSys Alliance Program. “MontaVista and Wind River are both 'select' partners, which is the middle category. At some point, we will identify which one is to be our 'premier' Linux provider.”

Woods adds that RadiSys also offers its own generic Linux BSPs (board support packages) as a starting point for TEMs wishing to implement Linux themselves. However, he notes, “Even the [TEMs] that [implement Linux themselves] use a contract with one of the big names for support.”

RadiSys also supports Linux on its family of legacy CompactPCI systems, which includes CPU blades, blade servers, and switches. CompactPCI products are supported under MontaVista Linux Professional Edition (Pro), thanks to RadiSys's membership in MontaVista's self-certification program, Woods says. However, the company will consider supporting CompactPCI systems under Carrier Grade Linux, given customer demand, or when MontaVista extends its self-certification program to CGE.

 
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