An embedded Linux software reference design vendor with offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Pune, India, has announced a “convergence” design aimed at VoIP-enabled (voice-over-IP) devices. Kenati's NP (Network Persona) Convergence Platform will include a Linux OS and networking stack, along with standards-compliant network management and voice provisioning frameworks, it says.

Kenati's NP product family comprises half a dozen portable designs targeting relatively specific product categories. Its “NP Base Platform” targets M2M (machine-to-machine) applications, RFID devices, and vending machines; an “NP Gateway” product targets SOHO (small-office, home-office) gateways, routers, and set-top boxes; an “NP Wireless Platform” targets wireless gateways and access points; an “NP VoIP” design targets phones, terminal adapters, and PBXs; and an “NP VPN” design targets secure gateways.

Kenati's “Network Persona” product family diagram
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Kenati says its NP product designs support advanced real-time Linux kernel features and flash filesystems, and are available in binary or source form, along with with graphical build tools. The company additionally offers embedded device management products targeting both home and industrial automation.

NP Convergence

Kenati describes its NP Convergence design as a “market-ready” platform targeting OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and ODMs (original design manufacturers) building converged devices. The reference design includes a management framework aimed at simplifying configuration of converged devices, which Kenati says can be difficult to configure, since they typically include multiple network interfaces.

The NP Convergence design's management framework is based on XML/SOAP, and complies with the DSL Forum's TR-069 CPE (customer premises equipment) management protocol specification, and with Dimark Technologies's WT-104 VoIP provisioning and management specification, Kenati says.

CEO Andy Chinmulgund stated, “NP Platforms [provide] an end-to-end solution that can be tailored to [customer] hardware and specifications. At Kenati, we [create] simple yet powerful interfaces.”

Availability

Kenati plans to offer all its NP Platform designs in binary or SDK format, for XScale, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86. It also plans to offer evaluation versions.

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