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News Release from: Performance Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2006
Performance technologies joins CP-TA
Performance Technologies has joined the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) as a contributor member
Performance Technologies has joined the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) as a contributor member With its membership, the company joins 25 embedded industry leaders looking to drive a mainstream market for open industry standard communications platforms through the certification of interoperable products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Within the last few years, the communications platform industry has worked to develop a full set of open standards for modular communications platforms, providing equipment manufacturers with an alternative to internally-developed proprietary platforms.
However, inconsistent interpretations of mandatory requirements and an ever-increasing number of optional requirements have slowed the industry's move to the next level of interoperability.
Established in April 2006, CP-TA is an association of communications platform and product companies dedicated to delivering open standards based communications platforms through interoperability testing and certification.
The association develops interoperability test requirements based on existing open specifications from the Service Availability Forum, PICMG and OSDL, and on system-level profiles developed by the Scope Alliance.
Periodic CP-TA Interoperability "Plugfests" allow the CP-TA community to harmonise the execution of automated test suites, as well as offer a true multi-vendor environment for enhanced interoperability testing.
"Communications equipment manufacturers look to companies like Performance Technologies to offer application-ready platforms with increased content and much higher levels of interoperability," said Ed Bizari, vice president of marketing for Performance Technologies.
"CP-TA is playing a pivotal role in facilitating interoperability among vendors".
"As Performance Technologies begins marketing its 10Gb AdvancedTCA platforms, easy integration of third party hardware will allow us to directly address the needs of our customers".
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