The Mountain View Alliance (MVA), a consortia of consortia dedicated to creating more coordinated approach to specifications and activities around platform design, today announced the acceptance of the RapidIO® Trade Association as its latest member. The RapidIO Trade Association joins the Network Processing Forum (NPF), PICMG and the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) as part of the Alliance that provides a forum for the coordination of the marketing and technical activities of its member organizations.
“The success of RapidIO technology in many aspects directly depends on the success of the eco-system we support. The Mountain View Alliance is the macro system architecture focal point that helps formalize relationships with key players in that ecosystem, extends the breadth of support for open standards, and facilitates the design process,” said Tom Cox, Executive Director of the RapidIO Trade Association.
RapidIO is an established, scalable, open-standard, switched fabric, designed by the leaders in embedded computing specifically for OEMs building equipment in the wireless infrastructure, edge networking, storage, scientific, military and industrial markets. RapidIO delivers the reliability, cost effectiveness, performance and scalability required in these markets. In addition, RapidIO actively supports a development roadmap which is closely attuned to the technology and market changes affecting embedded infrastructure designers.
Brian Holden, the NPF representative to the MVA added: “The RapidIO Trade Association represents a technology standard that is used alongside many of our members’ specifications; their presence in the Mountain View Alliance will provide us with much broader industry coverage.”
The Mountain View Alliance promotes an environment for coexistence and compatibility such that real applications can be created from COTS elements. Real life interoperability is a significant goal of the MVA and as such the Alliance members will work to harmonize their respective specifications aiming to avoid gaps, overlaps and inconsistencies that would lead to technical conflict. The group’s founding members have been holding regular marketing and technical meetings since December 2004.
About the Mountain View Alliance Member Organizations:
Network Processing Forum
Founded in 2001, the Network Processing Forum (NPF) is an international industry consortium of networking semiconductor, software and OEM manufacturers accelerating the adoption of network processing technologies through the development and implementation of network processing standards and benchmarks. By establishing standard interfaces and benchmarks, the NPF helps semiconductor manufacturers, software developers, services companies and system OEMs lower development costs, shorten design cycles, reduce product time-to-market and increase product time-in-market. The Forum includes members from around the world that provide network processing products and services globally. For more information, visit the NPF website at www.npforum.org.
Picmg
Founded in 1994, PICMG is a consortium of over 400 companies that collaboratively develops open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. PICMG specifications included AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC and CompactPCI. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing and using leading edge products for these industries. For information about PICMG membership, or to find out how to obtain PICMG specifications, visit the PICMG website at www.picmg.org.
Service Availability Forum
The Service Availability™ Forum is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability network infrastructure products, systems and services. To achieve this goal, the Service Availability Forum develops and publishes high availability and management software interface specifications while promoting and facilitating their adoption by industry. Service Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to help frame and implement the Service Availability solution. For more information about the Service Availability Forum, visit www.saforum.org.
RapidIO Trade Association
The RapidIO Trade Association and its global members drive the RapidIO interconnect architecture. This ISO-certified, open-standard seamlessly enables the chip-to-chip, board-to-board, control, backplane and data plane interconnections needed in high-performance networking, communications and embedded systems. In 2005, there were multiple announcements of RapidIO products complementing the breadth of solutions already actively being deployed in the market including DSPs, communications controllers, switches, FPGAs, ASIC library support; processor and DSP RTOS software support, and boards including ATCA carrier cards, AMC modules for DSPs, processors and FPGAs. The growth of the RapidIO ecosystem in 2005 seeded deployment of RapidIO technology in next generation wireless infrastructure, edge networking and military systems. Over 2006, the deployment of RapidIO will be furthered through RapidIO Trade Association initiatives including interoperability, interworking, the next Generation PHY Release, and system-level application demonstrations. Detailed information on the RapidIO specification, products, design tools, member companies, and membership is available at www.RapidIO.org.
