Paris, France; Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Interface Concept has selected MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux operating system to run the company's new high performance LAN-WAN remote access communications server and Ethernet switches. Interface Concept is a manufacturer of high-performance communications boards and systems for integrated voice and data transmission systems, and remote… access and routing equipment.

Powered by Motorola's MPC860 and MPC8260 Power PC processors, Interface Concept's 'Power Lines' LAN-WAN remote access communications server platform offers a choice of open-architecture hardware systems such as PCI, CompactPCI, and VME. Previously, these platforms have been tied to proprietary operating systems.

Bruno Rolland, managing director of Interface Concepts, said “We were delighted by the performance improvement that Hard Hat Linux delivered in our benchmark tests, compared with the proprietary VRTX and pSOS real time operating systems that we ran on our previous generation Ethernet switches. We achieved between a five-fold and ten-fold improvement in TCP/IP data throughput, due primarily to the collective contribution from the Open Source Community . . .” he added.

Interface Concept's 'Cometh', non-blocking, fully managed Ethernet switch family, with 8, 16 or 24 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports, support SNMP and web-based browser management, creating a complete network management solution. Originally designed as a 6U form factor VME board, the latest product in the family has recently been developed in the open architecture CompactPCI hardware format, supported mainly by the Hard Hat Linux operating system.

 
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