Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation to push 'telco' Linux

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 05:22

Business IT - Technology

Linux features prominently in the fulfilment of these goals and in June 2006 the organisation published its initial Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Operating System profile.   In April this year the alliance published a companion document , version 1.2 identifying a number of gaps in the current specification.

It included a prioritised list of requirements and a description of functions that the network equipment providers viewed as critical in a Linux operating system distribution used in carrier grade base platforms when creating control and service plane network elements.

However, in November 2006, Sun, Nokia and Ericsson (all Scope Alliance members) announced formation of the Telecommunications Platform Initiative' to "jointly develop the requirements for a standardised, integrated telecommunications technology platform to simplify technology integration by enabling design, development and supply chain efficiencies."

They gave little indication of how this would complement, or conflict, with the work of the Scope Alliance saying only that they would "continue to be actively involved with other standardisation and specification bodies such as PICMG and Scope.

Nothing has been forthcoming since: a Google search on 'Telecommunications Platform Initiative' produced no information other than that relating to the initial announcement.