Fujitsu Siemens Computers Joins Intel Communications Alliance
Munich/Germany, April 20, 2004 —Welcoming Intel’s initiative to enable the development
of standards for communications infrastructure, Fujitsu Siemens
Computers has announced on the occasion of the Intel®
Developer Forum in Barcelona/Spain (April 20 – 21, 2004),
that it will join the Intel Communications Alliance. The Alliance
is an Intel sponsored community of communications and embedded
developers and solution providers committed to the development of
modular standards based solutions. This move by the leading
European IT provider is well matched to its strategy to focus on
the advanced needs of the communications market.
Following one of its strategic directions – Business
Critical Computing – Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a developer
and supplier of communications infrastructure with products like
the Resilient Telco Platform (RTP) and PRIMECLUSTER product suite,
as well as server management solutions. For almost a decade, these
have been fulfilling customer needs for carrier-grade availability
together with the company’s UNIX-based server systems. The
effectiveness and reliability of this platform has been confirmed
time and time again by the more than 2,000 installations operating
in carrier space around the globe.
These products, previously offered only on UNIX platforms,
are now also available on Intel architecture based platforms with
the carrier-grade Linux operating system. Linux is fully supported
by the company’s Intel processor-based PRIMERGY servers.
“Our customers will benefit greatly from our
participation in the Intel Communications Alliance with
carrier-grade platforms for communications applications on
standardized platforms such as AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom
Computing Architecture),” said Dieter Herzog, Executive Vice
President Enterprise Products at Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
“Supporting our application infrastructure with standard high
volume hardware will also reduce total cost of ownership for these
applications.”
“Intel is delighted to have Fujitsu Siemens Computers,
a leader in the telecommunications industry, as an associate member
of the Intel Communications Alliance,” said Gordon Graylish,
Director of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Intel.
“The company’s commitment to developing AdvancedTCA
platforms utilizing Intel silicon is a testament to the momentum
that AdvancedTCA is gaining and is indicative of the benefits that
equipment providers worldwide have recognized: that modular, open
standards-based communications platforms enable them to deliver
products faster so that service providers can quickly deliver new
revenue-generating services.”
The goal of the Intel Communications Alliance is to create a
community of developers and solutions providers that, like Intel,
are committed to the value of standards based modular platforms and
solutions, and capable of delivering products and services at
multiple levels of integration to telecom equipment manufacturers.
The program is structured to add value and improve business in the
following key market segments:
• Communications: Infrastructure, wireless,
wireline/broadband, & enterprise edge
• Embedded: industrial, imaging, medical, Point of
Sales (POS)
Since 2001, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has also been an active
member of the Service Availability Forum (SAF), formed by a
communications industry which recognized that effective solutions
required, above all, the broad adoption of open standards. The SAF
aims to develop the missing standard interfaces and thus enable
high-availability carrier-grade systems to be delivered using
off-the-shelf hardware platforms, middleware and service
applications. To further this cause, Fujitsu Siemens Computers is
organizing the International Service Availability Symposium 2004 in
Munich on May 13.
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About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider
with a responsible strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and
Business Critical Computing products, services and solutions. With
a portfolio of exceptional depth, our offering extends from
handhelds through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure
solutions. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a strong presence in all
key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Leveraging
the strengths, innovation and global reach of our joint
shareholders, Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet
the needs of customers: large corporations, small and medium
enterprises and private users. For further please visit::
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
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