"This is a big market for both companies. Sun (Quote) said between 30 and 40 percent of its business comes from telcos. 'The telecom market is a very strong vertical for Sun, but in terms of Intel, we've been selling carrier grade platforms to the telecom space for three to five years now, taking quite a bit of time making sure the hardware is hardened to the NEBS and ETSI certification,' Keate Despain, director of marketing for the ATCA product line at Intel told internetnews.com.
"The new Carrier Grade Rack Mount Server TIGW1U is the first Intel carrier grade server shipping today that supports both Linux and Solaris. In the third quarter, Intel will ship NetStructure MPCBL0050, a single board computer based on the ATCA architecture that will also support both Linux and Solaris. Currently, the MPCBL0050 is undergoing Solaris Hardware Certification Test Suite (HCTS) certification..."
