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Linux has a strong momentum in the embedded software industry and has in the past years become the prevalent choice as an operating system for new platforms. However, standard Linux is designed for overall throughput rather than for real-time, and consequently needs to be modified or extended to meet high demands on latency and determinism. In parallel, advancements and trends within the semiconductor industry are driving an evolution towards manycore processors. By utilizing more flexible processor architectures, new possibilities emerge to enable real-time in Linux.
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Distributed systems range from simple multi-threaded applications to multi-slot chassis-based systems to networked clusters of servers. Topologies get more complex when these systems move into cloud-based environments, and more diverse when they involve machine-to-machine (or M2M) solutions.
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This white paper presents a method on how to take your single core application and move it to multicore, with small steps that mitigate risk while maintaining a working version for delivery to your customers. The method centers on the use of hypervisors and design patterns that can be used to move your performance critical telecommunications and/or networking code to a multicore chip.
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This white paper provides a “tutorial like” overview of the fundamental issues that apply to multicore software operating systems implementation for the telecom/networking space.
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The emergence of Android paves the way for new opportunities for the world’s mobile phone manufacturers to take advantage of the trend created by Apple with its iPhone, moving the user back to the center.
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Developing and deploying communications equipment is not getting any easier.Economic and competitive pressures continue to demand that network equipment be deployed with more revenue generating functionality– faster and at a lower cost.
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The days are long gone when a real-time operating system (RT OS) was simply a small kernel providing basic services such as task scheduling and reliable inter-task communications. Today’s real-time operating systems are expected to perform a wide variety of functions ranging from managing real-time communications to providing a reliable foundation for higher level applications.
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Pressure from service providers is being exerted on telecommunications equipment manufactures (TEMs) to build the network elements that will power this major evolution in communications. The question for the TEMs is: “How do you lower the cost per channel while lowering the cost of the equipment?”
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As the migration to “all-IP” next-generation networks continues, this trend has fundamentally transformed the Service Provider (SP) landscape, presenting numerous opportunities to offer exciting new services. But with intense competition from all sides, and from new players, this has also brought challenges in agility, network operational efficiency and lifecycle management, while struggling to maintain the profitability and reliability that the SPs had achieved with legacy networks.
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Moore’s law does still hold, but processor vendors are rapidly turning to use the additional transistors to create more cores on the same die instead of increasing frequency since this not only gives more chip performance but also decreases the power consumption (watt/mips).
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Integrated data management services are an integral part of any advanced network equipment software platform. Where large application-level data storage is required, the data management solution may come in the form of a traditional disk-based relational database management system (RDBMS).Many network infrastructure systems, however, require a separate, higher performance, in-memory database solution.
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There is no doubt the emergence of commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware platforms, Carrier Grade Linux, and management middleware have had a significant impact on the market for next generation network equipment. By enabling Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) to readily assemble best of breed COTS components, a ’jumpstart’ on the development of new Network Elements can be realized. But having standardized COTS building blocks is only a part of the puzzle.
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Gateway. It is one of the most widely used terms in the telecommunications industry. It designates a wide variety of systems or functions that enable communications between two parties that cannot be connected in a direct way either for technical, management or administrative reasons. The parties in question can be a host system and a network, two networks or two elements in the same network.
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The ability to upgrade or patch complex system software without disrupting service is an absolute requirement in today’s highly connected world. Yet it remains one of the most elusive features for today’s high-availability middleware offerings.
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This document provides an overview of multi-core technology addressing such issues as the motivation for multi-core, and applications for multi-core in telecom. Following this, some more specifics on implementation alternatives are addressed, and these alternatives then affect the design choices for different types of telecom applications. Virtualization technology, once the domain of single CPU’s now finds some applicability in the multi-core space.
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In a world of computers with ever increasing complexity and pervasiveness, there is an increasing need for debugging methods that can tackle system level faults, where reproducibility and observability of multiple interacting programs and subsystems can be dealt with holistically, and where in field debugging is as important as predeployment debugging.
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Market pressures demand that each new generation of networking and communications system deliver both higher performance and new functionality at a lower price. In many applications, the ability to provide continuous operation, even in the presence of failures (also known as high-availability), is a key customer requirement.