LinuxPlanet: Carrier Grade Linux: Adoption and Deployments

“The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) released the latest
version of the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Requirements
Definition–version 3.1 on June 2, 2005. CGL 3.1 is the successor
to CGL 2.0 and 1.1, the earliest versions of CGL which have been
broadly adopted by the industry. At the time of writing, over 18
platform providers include CGL as part of their offerings and five
Linux distributions are registered as implementing CGL 2.0 (with
two more in progress). In addition, an increasing number of
Carriers and Service Providers are deploying CGL based server nodes
to offer communication services. In a previous article published in
LinuxPlanet, I examined the state of Linux in telecom and reviewed
the specifications in the CGL requirements document. In this
article, I will provide an overview of CGL distributions,
deployments and some of the challenges ahead…”

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