Mercury licenses new OpenClovis ASP for advanced development platform

BANGALORE: 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 Ensemble2TM

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 VK Budhraja, CEO and president

of OpenClovis. "With Mercury and OpenClovis working together to provide a

highly available Advanced TCA-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 standard based 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.

"The combination of OpenClovis ASP and Ensemble enables us to support

service providers' network infrastructure requirements for standards-based,

highly available and reliable systems," said Mark Skalabrin, vice president

and general manager of the Advanced Solutions business at Mercury.

The OpenClovis ASP consists of an extensive set of management modules running

on a distributed-information, model driven 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.

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