Performance Technologies Joins the CP-TA

By Susan J. Campbell

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

The Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) has gained a new member in Performance Technologies, a developer of communication platforms and systems. The company announced that it has joined the association as a contributor member.

Performance Technologies (News - Alert) joins 25 embedded industry leaders seeking to drive a mainstream market for open industry standard communications platforms via certification of interoperable products.

The communications platform industry has spent the last few years working to develop a full set of open standards for modular communications platforms in an effort to provide equipment manufacturers with an alternative to internally-developed propriety platforms. The industry has continuously dealt with the challenge of inconsistent interpretations of mandatory requirements as well as an ever-increasing number of optional requirements; both have slowed the industry’s move to the next level of interoperability.



The CP-TA was established in April of this year as an association of communications platform and product companies dedicated to delivering open standards based communications platforms through interoperability testing and certification.

To address the challenges of the industry, the association develops interoperability test requirements based on existing open specifications from the Service Availability Forum, PICMG (News - Alert) and OSDL, and on system-level profiles developed by the SCOPE Alliance. The CP-TA community harmonized the execution of automated test suites through periodic CP-TA Interoperability “Plugfests” that offer a true multi-vendor environment for enhanced interoperability testing.

Ed Bizari, vice president of marketing for Performance Technologies noted that communications equipment manufacturers look to companies like Performance Technologies to provide application-ready platforms with increased content and much higher levels of interoperability.

Bizari continued that the CP-TA is playing an essential role in facilitating interoperability among vendors. As Performance Technologies begins to market its 10Gb AdvancedTCA (News - Alert) platforms, easy integration of third party hardware will allow the company to directly address the needs of its customers.

Headquartered in Rochester, New York, Performance Technologies has been serving the communications infrastructure industry for over 25 years. The company’s complete line of embedded and system-level products are positioned to enable equipment manufacturers and service providers to offer highly available and fully-managed systems with time-to-market, performance and cost advantages.

Performance Technologies is establishing its place in the drive for interoperability standards with its membership in the CP-TA. In a short amount of time, this organization has made significant headway in its addressing of interoperability challenges. As it continues to gain new members and increase its testing, we are likely to see results and a change in the industry. Vendors are sure to be anxiously waiting.

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Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMC and has also written for eastbiz.com. To see more of her articles, please visit Susan J. Campbell’s columnist page.