Fujitsu Siemens Computers unveils SAForum compliant Modular
Communications Platform for Telecommunications
infrastructure
- Innovation highlights the company’s position as a
leading supplier to carriers and telecom equipment manufacturers
- Solution will be shown at 3GSM in Cannes
Munich/Germany, February 09, 2005 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT company,
today revealed a comprehensive new architecture for next-generation
telecommunications infrastructure. ART4CS™ (application-ready
telecommunications platform for continuous services) is the first
industry-standard architecture to deliver SAForum* compliant
functionality and services for the telecommunications equipment of
today and tomorrow.
The new platform enables carriers and telecom equipment
manufacturers to develop next-generation applications with a common
API (application program interface) and middleware layer that is
independent of the underlying hardware. With ART4CS, Fujitsu
Siemens Computers is again underlining its position as the leading
supplier of innovative and practical solutions to the telecom
sector. ART4CS will become available in the second half of 2005,
and will be presented for the first time, with ARTCENTER, an
Intel® processor based platform at 3GSM World Congress in
Cannes on February 14-17 (Intel booth: Hall 4; Booth L18).
In a competitive market carriers and telecom equipment
manufacturers (TEMs) are striving to differentiate themselves by
developing services, such as video messaging, unified
communications and e-mail push, that will increase ARPU (average
revenue per user) and attract new subscribers. In this volatile
environment, quick market deployment is crucial to gaining a
step-up on competitors, as are economical and flexible solutions
that can be scaled and adapted as subscriber expectations levels
evolve. ART4CS fully supports all this and more, allowing the
seamless integration of new processor and switching technologies
into existing telecommunications landscapes. As a result,
manufacturers and carriers can focus their investments where they
get the best return.
The perfect combination of hardware and middleware layers
ART4CS offers a unique selection of seamlessly integrated
standard and blade servers from the Fujitsu Siemens Computers
PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER families, running operating systems ranging
from Solaris to carrier-grade Linux. Fujitsu Siemens Computers will
complete its portfolio later this year with the release of
ARTCENTER, a telecom-specific carrier-grade blade server family.
ARTCENTER is based on the emerging industry standard
AdvancedTCA® (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture), as
stipulated by IT manufacturer group PICMG®, and will feature
Intel architecture technologies and run under carrier-grade Linux.
As for the middleware layer, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
completes its offering with SAFE4CS™ (SAForum Environment for
Continuous Services), an SAForum-compliant carrier-grade middleware
suite. Carrier-grade environments require extremely high
availability (99.999%+) and manageability. To achieve this, Fujitsu
Siemens Computers developed SAFE4CS consisting of PRIMECLUSTER, a
standard clustering solution, RTP4CS carrier-grade middleware, and
ServerView, the company’s systems management tool.
SAFE4CS has been deployed globally several thousand times
over. It addresses scalable application availability up to
carrier-grade needs. Standardized application interfaces, a self
explaining GUI (graphical user interface) and advanced Wizard
technology ensure easy operation and enable service providers to
manage their network elements in a most efficient and
cost-effectively way.
The next ingredient of TRIOLE
This latest innovation from Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a
good match for the company’s TRIOLE strategy for optimized
IT. “ART4CS is the next building block of this strategy, and
is tailored to the extremely demanding requirements of the
telecommunications sector,” said Dieter Herzog, Executive
Vice President, Enterprise Products at Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
“ART4CS highlights our commitment of becoming the partner of
choice for telecom equipment manufacturers, carriers and service
operators. Infrastructure solutions based on our ART4CS
architecture will generate tremendous business value for
them.”
As one of the leading suppliers of integrated platform
solutions Fujitsu Siemens Computers is an associate member of the
Intel Communications Alliance, a community of communications and
embedded developers and solutions providers committed to the
development of modular, standards based building blocks, platforms,
and solutions based on Intel technologies, processors, products,
and services (
http://www.intel.com/go/ica).
"Service providers look for ways to rapidly respond to
end user demands for new and innovative services. Fujitsu Siemens
Computers addresses these demands with the ART4CS platform that
includes standards-based AdvancedTCA system built on Intel
processors," said Anthony Ambrose, general manager of Modular
Platform Programs at Intel Corporation. "Increasingly,
equipment manufacturers and service providers are specifying
industry standard, modular communications platforms to rapidly
deliver the solutions their customers require.”
A graphic on the ART4CS functionality can be found on the
Fujitsu Siemens Computers Mediaserver:
http://www.fsc-mediaserver.com/ms/go.cfm?itemid=11361&jumpfactor=6
* SAForum:
The Service Availability™ Forum is a consortium of
industry-leading communications and computing companies working
together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial
off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability
network infrastructure products, systems and services. To achieve
this goal, the SA Forum develops and publishes high availability
and management software interface specifications while promoting
and facilitating their adoption by industry. SA Forum membership
offers the opportunity to help frame and implement the Service
Availability solution. For more information about the SA Forum,
visit
www.saforum.org.com
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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 information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers,
please visit:
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
PR Contacts:
Amy M.K. Flécher
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Tel.: +49 (0) 89 3222 4460
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Fax: +49 (0) 89 3222 4466
amy.flecher@fujitsu-siemens.com
Sabine Twest
PR Manager
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sabine.twest@fujitsu-siemens.com
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