Sun/Intel Partnership Targets Telcos

“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…”

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