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Standards-based and Open Source System Management Middleware

Enea is a pioneer in the commercial high availability middleware market offering both the standards-based Enea Element and professional services support on the leading open source implementation OpenSAF. View the Enea Element Web page for more information. Or visit OpenSAF.org


    COTS, Open Source, Standards? Confused? We can help.

    The Enea Communications Center is providing a no charge, half-day workshop at your facility to help telecom equipment manufactures who are considering using commercial or open source, standards based, high availability and system management middleware rather that writing their own proprietary code. This workshop is designed as a starting point to explore your alternatives.  Read More.



      Enea Communications Center

      Expertise in communications infrastructure software development and integration.

      Enea’s Communications Center provides a wide range of expertise for manufacturers that require design, development, integration and/or testing of hardware and software for communications infrastructure equipments from routers, to base stations to media gateways and beyond.  Enea experts are ready to support your entire software development process.  From platform integration including the OS, middleware and protocol layers through to application development and maintenance. 

      • Complete integrated products and services
      • Hardware and software expertise
      • Training
      • On or off site development
      The Enea Communications Center (ECC) is staffed by a services team drawn from a global organization of over 550 consulting engineers. The ECC assists customers with evaluating, implementing and deploying carrier grade software platforms and applications in a variety of demanding communications markets, including wireline and wireless telecommunications, military/aerospace, and government. 

      Feature Partners


      OpenSAF is an Open Source Project established to develop a base platform High Availability middleware offering


      MontaVista is a leader in embedded Linux commercialization 

      • Enea has a 40 year track record of delivering carrier grade services and software solutions to the leaders in the global communications marketplace.
      • Enea’s team of more than 350 services engineers provide full life-cycle professional support that address all aspects of product design, software development, maintenance, and technical training.
      • Enea provides commercial off theshelf software targeting the full value chain of telecommunications equipment from the core to the handset

      Enea is a board member of the OpenSAF Foundation and a contributor to the OpenSAF open source project. 


      OpenSAF is an Open Source Project established to develop a base platform High Availability middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Computing Companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products.


      MontaVista is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. MontaVista helps embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community.


      Tail-f Systems is the leading provider of XML-based software and tools to enable networking equipment providers to build carrier-grade network management systems

      Enea Element

      Enea Element provides a complete set of services for managing all the critical systems aspects of complex telecom/networking equipment:

      • High Availability - SAF conformant Availability Management Framework for fault management, fault tolerance/5-nines+, and failover management
      • Software management for complete software program or component level version control and live or In-Service Upgrade services that eliminate down-time due to fielded system upgrade operations
      • Chassis management for hardware inventory, provisioning, monitoring and alarms
      • Embedded Management (hardware/software provisioning, configuration, and network management).
        View the Element Web page for more information.

       

      Enea LINX

      LINX is an open source suite of high-performance IPC services for managing transparent communications between application processes running on multiple processors (and cores) and operating systems. LINX is tailor made for mobile platforms that combine a CPU running Linux (or a full-featured RTOS like OSE) with a baseband DSP running a DSP-optimized RTOS like OSE ck.  View the LINX Web page for more information.

      Enea Embedded Linux Competence Center

      Enea’s Embedded Linux Competence Center (ELCC) offers a wealth of expert Linux development, integration, and training services for building standard carrier grade platforms -- for today and tomorrow.  View the ELCC Web page for more information.

      The ECC offers products and services for communications infrastructure, including platform development, customization, and integration. ECC services include:

      System and Software Architecture - Enea’s engineering team has vast experience architecting complex, highly scalable communication platforms. Enea’s software and system architects can help developers architect, analyze and validate their software system or platform.

      Open Source Evaluation – The emergence of the OpenSAF project creates new options in the market place. In addition to offering our market leading standards-based Element middleware, Enea is an OpenSAF board member and contributor. Whether developers are considering pure commercial or open source for their platform software, Enea can explain the tradeoffs and implementation strategies. 

      Platform Adaptation and Migration - Enea’s experts can help equipment makers migrate existing system software, applications and services to next-generation platforms.


       

      Implementing Highly Available Applications – Enea’s ECC professionals are experts in developing complex, distributed applications, from carrier-grade control plane services and sub-50-msec link repairs, to non-stop data forwarding and live, in-service software upgrades. 

      Interprocess Communications – The open source messaging protocol LINX is fast becoming an industry standard for scalable, high-performance messaging. Enea’s experts are available to quickly port/adapt LINX to the latest network and communication mediums.

      Training - Enea has extensive experience in developing courses and seminars on a broad range of communications topics, including system architecture, high availability, and protocol implementation