Members of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) will discuss the value of Carrier Grade Linux (CGL), and the growing use of Linux in the communications industry, during a panel discussion at the SuperComm tradeshow in Chicago. According to the OSDL, 22 major companies participate in the development of CGL.

The 22 include: Alcatel, Cisco, Comverse, Ericsson, Force Computers, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista, NEC, Nokia, Novell, NTT Data Intellilink, NTT Group, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SuSE, Timesys, TurboLinux, and Wind River.

The panel will take place Thursday, June 24, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m., and will include:

• Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt Analytics (Moderator)
  
• Bernard Marclay, manager of Telco Linux at HP France
  
• Doug Dreyer, director of Linux strategy at IBM
  
• Ron Peck, marketing director at Intel
  
• Howard Trickey, research director at Lucent Bell Labs
  
• Robert Monkman, marketing manager at MontaVista
  
• Timo Jokiaho, technology director at Nokia
  
• Wing Lee, chief technologist at Sprint

OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen said, “In the past year we have seen Linux move into the top tier of infrastructure platforms in this industry.”

MontaVista Marketing Director Glenn Seiler said, “We are seeing significant adoption among network equipment providers.”

Sun Microsystems Linux Director Stephen Harpster said, “OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux initiative is the driving force behind the adoption of this emerging open standard.”

HP R&D Manager Stephen Geary said, “OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux group offers tremendous resources that [support] all the things service providers need to make Linux their standard operating system of choice.”

Wind River Linux Director Glenn Flinchbaugh said, “Wind River is committed to [furthering] CGL as a standard that will help the telecommunications industry develop and run their systems better, faster, at a lower cost and more reliably.”

 
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