Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service    by Ian Colville      Home         Topics: Main | Standards Organizations | Archive   OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0 OpenSAF announced the public availability of Release 4.0 of its high availability (HA) middleware platform. OpenSAF Release 4.0 implements all major functions of the Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification and includes important enhancements to improve scalability as well as hardware and software management. "With Release 4.0, OpenSAF has reached a level of maturity that will broaden its reach and cross-industry impact," said Monica Hatlen of Ericsson, President of the OpenSAF Foundation. "Release 4.0 in many ways fulfills the vision of the initial OpenSAF community when the project was created, and we are proud to offer it to the world. It delivers a cost-effective, standards-based way to create highly available and reliable networks, and its new management features take a big step toward solving larger problems, including network saturation from increased smartphone use. Consumers also will reap this benefit as mobile traffic continues to grow." OpenSAF is an open source community focused on developing HA middleware consistent with SA Forum specifications. The group said its OpenSAF code base has re-architected to be much more modular, so that users can now build and install only the features they want, reducing the overhead of maintaining unneeded services. Release 4.0 is the first implementation in the industry of the SA Forum Software Management Framework (SMF), which enables users to upgrade – or roll back -- application software from one deployment configuration to another, seamlessly, without affecting service availability. SMF represents the first real industry effort at standardizing a software management interface, and it offers great potential benefits to users who have had to create and maintain proprietary implementations. Other key enhancements include implementation of the SA Forum's new Platform Layer Management (PLM) service, which provides hardware abstraction to ease the management of supporting multiple hardware architectures and facilitates virtualization. This can significantly increase scalability and thus the overall usage and ROI of OpenSAF on multiple platforms, within an organization. Release 4.0 also has a number of logging, tracing and debugging enhancements. http://www.opensaf.org http://devel.opensaf.org/wiki/downloads/ 27-Jul-10 No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Standards News CableLabs Issues 3D Content Encoding Spec 9/1/2010 Royalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video 8/27/2010 HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline 7/28/2010 Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course 7/27/2010 OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0 7/27/2010 ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification 7/21/2010 Vendors back POLQA -- Mobile Voice Quality Testing Standard 7/16/2010 OIF Finalizes IAs for 100G Modules and Control Plane Logging/Auditing 7/14/2010 Alvarion to Support TDD-LTE 7/13/2010 Internet2 Appoints Dave Lambert as CEO 7/8/2010 Bluetooth Adopts Low Energy Spec for Wireless Sensors 7/7/2010 WiMAX Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard 6/17/2010 HomeGrid Forum Partners with BroadBand Forum 6/15/2010 HomePlug Powerline Alliance’s Green PHY Spec for Smart Grid Published 6/14/2010 ITU Approves G.hn as Global Standard for Wired Home Networking 6/11/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service by Ian Colville Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras