Carrier-Grade Linux Upgrade Gets Support From Distributors
CGL 2.0's clustering features are expected to help makers of telecommunications equipment and service providers offer early fault detection, failure confinement, fault localization, and failure notification as well as logical model descriptions for distributed data access. Equipment makers Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, and Nokia all played a role in defining the features they wanted included in version 2. On the security side, the version includes requirements for minimized performance degradation and availability of Quality of Protection options.
CGL includes guidance for including communications protocols that are particularly useful to makers of telecommunications equipment, says Mika Kukkonen, road map coordinator for the development lab's CGL working group. CGL isn't a different form of Linux. Instead, it's used by Linux distributors to create versions of Linux optimized for use by telecommunications equipment makers and service providers. The telecom industry has been investigating different ways of using Linux. "Instead of doing this alone, why not join forces and do this once right?" Kukkonen says.
Operating systems have been a cost center for telecom equipment makers. CGL "helps them lower the cost of their equipment," Kukkonen says. "We're trying to make it easier for them to sell and implement Linux."
CGL version 3.0 is targeted for late 2004 or mid-2005.
This story courtesy of InformationWeek .