Mercury Computer Systems Licenses New OpenClovis ASP
for its Advanced Development Platform.
OpenClovis Helps Standards-based Mercury Ensemble Offering Achieve Carrier-grade Manageability and High Availability for Next-generation Communications
CHICAGO, GLOBALCOMM 2006, June 5, 2006 –OpenClovis Inc. (previously Clovis Solutions, Inc.) today announced that Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. has signed an agreement to license and resell its OpenClovis Application Service Platform (ASP). Mercury intends to provide carrier-grade management and high availability services on the Mercury Ensemble family of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA®) -based systems, as well as to develop unique applications using the OpenClovis ASP. Integration and deployment of the OpenClovis ASP is initially planned for the Ensemble2™ offerings.
“The communications industry is experiencing a dramatic transformation from products based on costly proprietary systems to solutions integrated from commercial off-the-shelf components,” said V.K. Budhraja, CEO and president of OpenClovis.
“With Mercury and OpenClovis working together to provide a highly available AdvancedTCA-based solution, the industry will be well-equipped to deliver products and services in record time with significantly less risk and cost.”
The Ensemble2 application platform from Mercury Computer Systems is a standardsbased system for developing and deploying applications. The Ensemble2 is a modular platform for the control and data plane, built around the performance, scalability and reliability of AdvancedTCA for the telecommunications, satellite communications, and defense markets.
“We’re pleased to partner with OpenClovis and offer a custom Mercury solution that meets the demands of next-generation platforms,” said Mark Skalabrin, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Solutions business at Mercury. “The combination of OpenClovis ASP and Ensemble enables us to support service providers’ network infrastructure requirements for standards-based, highly available and reliable systems.”
The OpenClovis ASP is suitable for a wide range of carrier grade network elements and its usage ranges from broadband access devices for technologies such as DSL, PON, 3G/WiMAX, to metro Ethernet and edge switches/routers, IPTV application servers and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) core elements.
The OpenClovis ASP (also announced today at www.openclovis.com) consists of an
extensive set of management modules running on a distributed-information, modeldriven core infrastructure. Modules may be selected to best match the application and platform requirements. The OpenClovis ASP can be distributed across blades, shelves, and even racks, creating a seamless high availability platform and system management environment across heterogeneous network element building blocks.
The OpenClovis integrated development environment (IDE) simplifies and accelerates the development of value-add services and applications that meet the availability demands of next-generation networks. It provides a graphical UML (Unified Modeling Language) editor to easily specify a Service Availability Forum-aligned, highly available system and all the attendant hardware and software resources along with the
information model.
OpenClovis ASP, integrated with the Mercury Ensemble2 platform, gives the communications industry the flexibility and carrier-grade functionality it demands to deliver new value add services and products in a fraction of the time it took on
traditional platforms.
For more information, visit OpenClovis in Booth #38075, or Mercury Computer Systems in the PICMG Technologies Showcase, Booth #12042R, at GLOBALCOMM 2006; or call 1-866-627-6951, or visit www.mc.com/ensemble.
About OpenClovis
OpenClovis (www.openclovis.com) provides the premier open source, commercial offthe- shelf application service platform for the telecommunications industry. The company reduces the cost of developing telecommunications equipment and accelerates time to market by providing developers with a flexible, standards-based software platform available under both open source and commercial licenses. With OpenClovis, telecommunication and network equipment manufacturers can quickly and easily add a management and high availability platform on which to build their differentiated applications. OpenClovis has received investment backing from American River Ventures, AT&T, Intel, Sevin Rosen Funds and Walden International. The company has partnerships with industry leaders such as HP and IBM.
About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) is the leading provider of highperformance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing computer systems. Mercury's products play a critical role in a wide range of applications, transforming sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation. In military reconnaissance and surveillance platforms the Company's systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-ofthe- art medical diagnostic imaging devices including MRI, CT, PET, and digital X-ray, and in semiconductor imaging applications including photomask generation and wafer inspection. Mercury provides advanced 3D image processing and visualization software and optimized systems to diverse end markets including life sciences, geosciences, and simulation. The Company also provides radio frequency (RF) products for enhanced communications capabilities in military and commercial applications.
Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North America, Europe and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of subsidiaries and distributors. Visit Mercury on the web at www.mc.com. |
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