Unstrung: Vendors Form Scope Alliance

"Leading network equipment providers Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens have launched SCOPE, an industry alliance to accelerate the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware/software and free open source software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers..."

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