A transformation is taking place in telecommunications to meet the demands of
new voice and data technologies. These technologies include Voice-over-IP
(VoIP), the packet-switched alternative to old-fashioned circuit-switched
telephony. To enable VoIP traffic, application servers must provide
carrier-grade reliability that guarantees high service availability (99.999%
uptime or better). These systems must also scale to handle hundreds of
thousands of calls and provide predictable performance and high speech
quality.
The telecommunications industry is undergoing enormous changes as equipment
providers migrate from proprietary platform architectures to open software
environments and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform architectures. Open
software and COTS hardware a... (more)
Public and commercial Linux distributions already contain most of the
functionality expected by most users from their computers. However, when it
comes to Linux establishing a beachhead on the desktop, the battle turns to
applications, applications, and more applications.
Certainly Linux distributions contain hundreds of useful desktop
applications, but the lack of familiar productivity a... (more)
John Cherry is the roadmap coordinator for the Carrier Grade Linux initiative at OSDL. He has managed kernel developers locally and has
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
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