Telecom Industry's Top Firms Convene at First AdvancedTCA Summit 2005

Market Wire, December, 2005

More than 65 of the telecom industry's top companies are convening at the first AdvancedTCA Summit on December 6-8 at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, California, to showcase the latest developments of the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture -- the new PICMG standard for telecommunications applications. Keynote speakers include Anthony Ambrose, General Manager, Communications Infrastructure Group, Intel Corporation; John Fryer, Director of Switched Platforms Operation Marketing, Motorola; John Round, Fellow of Technical Staff, Freescale Semiconductor; and John Fanelli, Vice President of Product Planning, Wind River. Full conference information is available at http://www.AdvancedTCAsummit.com.

"The AdvancedTCA Summit is the first full conference entirely devoted to this emerging PICMG telecom standard," said Dr. Lance Leventhal, AdvancedTCA Summit Program Chairperson. "A standard platform makes sense as a way to reduce development time and costs. The AdvancedTCA Summit gives industry participants an opportunity to learn from experts about whether AdvancedTCA fits their applications, how to develop systems based on it, and where the standards and the market are heading."

Conference sessions and tutorials will provide attendees with the latest information on AdvancedTCA hardware, software, interconnects, and system development. Sessions will cover switch fabrics (Ethernet, InfiniBand, RapidIO, and ASI), standards, hardware, software, Advanced MCs, power and cooling issues, shelf management, high-availability systems, backplane design, applications, and the future of AdvancedTCA. There will also be a special keynote on RapidIO, open sessions on PCI Express and middleware, and an evening beer and pizza roundtable on "What is the Key to Making AdvancedTCA Succeed?" Following are exhibitor and presenter highlights.

Exhibitor Highlights:

American Portwell Technology Inc.

American Portwell, an Intel Applied Computing Platform Provider, will introduce TANC-5320, a high computing power node card with PMC/ XMC interfaces for ATCA systems. The TANC-5320 supports Dual Intel(r) Xeon LV Nocona processors with 800MHz FSB, Intel(r)E7520 chipsets, and three 64-bit/133MHz PMC Interfaces. www.portwell.com

BittWare, Inc.

Featuring the ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processor, BittWare's B2-AMC (B2AM) is an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) that supports universal baseband processing for wireless communications infrastructure such as 2G, 2.5G, 3G, WiMAX and SDR. The B2AM features four TigerSHARCs, an Altera Stratix II FPGA, and a variety of front and back panel I/O interfaces. www.bittware.com

Clovis Solutions

Clovis Solutions is the leading provider of application development platforms to the communications industry. Products include the System Infrastructure SW Platform (SISP) that provides a core set of platform, system and high availability management modules and the ClovisWorks tool set that ensures rapid integration and deployment of solutions. www.clovissolutions.com

Continuous Computing Corporation

Continuous Computing® provides Network Service-Ready Platforms(TM) and pre-integrated products featuring Trillium® protocol software and AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI hardware, enabling TEMs to rapidly deploy converged communications. With over 150 global customers, benefits include accelerated time to market and reduced project risk and complexity for wireless, VoIP and IMS network infrastructure. www.ccpu.com

Diversified Technology, Inc.

DTI will display the Targa line of AdvancedTCA nodes, switches and platforms. Featuring Ethernet and InfiniBand based fabrics, DTI's Targa systems address the needs of the core and edge application markets, while also delivering unique features designed to handle the next generation services of advanced voice, data and mobile applications. www.dtims.com

Emulation Technology, Inc.

Emulation Technology, Inc. ET® ET specializes in a wide range of products and services for today's electronic development engineers and technicians. Our 22 years of expertise helping engineers create quality products, reduce costs associated with design, development, and time to market have made us the leader in this industry. www.emulation.com

Enea Embedded Technology

Enea's Element(TM) is an application development framework and high-availability middleware for distributed telecom, datacom, automotive, industrial control and medical instrumentation applications. Element provides core services for synchronizing and establishing communications between applications spread across multiple operating systems and processors. It also provides network supervision, fault management, and upgrade management services. www.enea.com

Fulcrum Microsystems

Fulcrum will showcase the FocalPoint 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch semiconductors and show how low-latency Ethernet switching redefines the interconnect in computing, storage, and networking applications. The FocalPoint family includes the FM2224, featuring twenty-four 10Gbps interfaces, and the FM2112, with eight 10 Gbps and sixteen 1 or 2.5 Gbps interfaces. www.fulcrummicro.com