Emerson Network Power, a division of Emerson Electric, will demonstrate MontaVista's Carrier Grade Linux distribution at the Freescale Technology Forum next week in Orlando Fla. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) will be shown running on Emerson's KatanaQP ATCA blades and PmPPC7448 ProcessorPMC modules.

Emerson acquired its Katana and PmPPC7448 products as part of its April merger with Artesyn Communications, the third-largest U.S. maker of carrier network equipment. Along with the acquisition, Emerson formed a new “Embedded Computing” division under its Network Power brand.

Artesyn has previously supported Wind River Linux on its PmPPC7448 and KatanaQp products. The company began offering MontaVista's CGE as a pre-loaded option for various products in September of last year.

KatanaQP/PmPPC7448 (Click for details)

The KatanaQP is a dual-processor blade for systems using an ATCA chassis. It is powered by a pair of MPC7448 processors, and features four PTMC (processor “telecom” mezzanine card) expansion sites, redundant IPMI-based system management interfaces, and a high-speed PICMG 3.1-compliant ATCA interface with ten-Gigabit Ethernet channels. It targets WAN access, SS7/SIGTRAN signaling, media gateways, traffic processing, wireless base stations, and softswitches.

The PmPPC7448 is a ProcessorPMC module that, like the KatanaQP, is also based on MPC7448 processors. It targets control-plane applications for optical and wireless infrastructure, as well as packet processing augmentation for voice gateways and softswitches, and enhanced protocol processing performance in SS7 and SIGTRAN signaling control points and gateways, MontaVista says.

Todd Wynia, formerly VP of marketing for Artesyn, and now VP of product management for Emerson's new Embedded Computing division, stated, “Embedded Linux is emerging as the dominant platform for building high-availability network infrastructure products, and we are committed to offering our telecom equipment OEM customers the finest carrier grade Linux solutions.”

Emerson Network Power is best known in the telecom industry for its 48-volt power systems. The brand is owned by Emerson Electric, an enormous company that reported 2006 revenues $1.4B, on receipts of $17.3B, according to Fortune magazine. Fortune ranked Emerson 126th on its list of top U.S. companies, and first in the category of “electronics and electrical equipment,” ahead of Whirlpool, Rockwell, Maytag, SPX, Harman, Diebold, and others.

 
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