This new product is now available for Linux, OSE and other commercial real-time operating systems
Tempe, AZ. March 21, 2005 – Enea Embedded Technology today announced a new high-availability application framework for network equipment. Available for Enea’s OSE real-time operating system, Linux, and other commercial RTOSes, the new framework makes it easier for OEMs to build high availability infrastructure systems with enhanced monitoring, fault detection, recovery, failover, load balancing, and management capabilities.
“Enea has established a proven track record as a supplier of high availability system software for the telecom, medical and automotive markets,” said Per Åkerberg, president of Enea Embedded Technology. “Our new middleware builds on that pedigree, providing a more highly integrated solution that makes it easier than ever for our customers to bring affordable, best-of-breed products to market in a timely fashion.”
To enhance fault detection and analysis, for example, the new middleware acts as a broker to notify the appropriate response agent and verify completion. The middleware also provides a heart beat monitor to periodically check the health of key system components, a fault recovery history for easy tracking of fault event sequences, and state aggregation facilities for monitoring collective system readiness. Other key features include:
- Pre-certification and verification for dynamic module loading.
- Hot system upgrades for whole or partial systems.
- Enhanced memory allocation and flow control to ensure optimal memory allocation and prevent messaging overflows.
- Performance balance monitoring for efficient load distribution across multiple processors.
- Polyhedra database back-up for system crashes.
Enea’s new high availability middleware, which includes built-in support for Enea’s Polyhedra database management system, and Enea’s own OSE real-time operating system provide a number of key features that enhance overall system availability.
“OSE’s memory protection, deterministic real-time response, guaranteed resource availability and distributed multiprocessing framework make it the pre-eminent RTOS for building high-availability telecom infrastructure equipment,” added Mike Christofferson, director of product marketing at Enea. “Our high-availability middleware builds on these baseline capabilities, providing enhanced fault detection, recovery, and management capabilities that enable telecom OEMs to get to market faster with ultra-reliable, systems that offer five nines availability.”
Availability
Enea’s Application Framework and IPC mechanism is available immediately for Linux, OSE and other popular (and proprietary) operating systems, with a minimal software configuration starting at $450,000.
More on OSE
OSE is a memory-protected RTOS optimized for high-availability, high-reliability distributed communications systems. Utilizing the host processor’s hardware memory management facilities, OSE provides a firewall that enhances reliability and availability by preventing kernel and application processes from corrupting each other. OSE features deterministic real-time response and provides guaranteed resource availability (memory and CPU) for critical processes. OSE also features a message passing framework for distributed systems that simplifies multiprocessor design by enabling processes running on multiple processors to communicate in a transparent fashion as if they were running on a single processor.
Polyhedra 5.0 is an active relational database management system (RDBMS) designed from the ground up to provide a secure, fault-tolerant data repository for embedded systems applications. The compact RDBMS features a memory-resident design that boosts performance by an order of magnitude relative to conventional disk-based RDBMSs.
Development support for OSE includes Soft Kernel, a simulator that enables designers to develop OSE-based applications on Linux, Windows, or Solaris host operating systems in advance of hardware availability. It also includes Illuminator, a system-level analysis and profiling tool that enables programmers to monitor, control and collect data for applications viewed as a sequence of events (such as context switches and message passing between processes).
More about Enea Embedded Technology
Enea Embedded Technology is a leading provider of real-time operating systems, development tools and services for fault-tolerant, high-availability and safety-critical applications. Enea’s OSE real-time operating system is used in millions of products worldwide, including communications infrastructure, mobile phones, avionics systems, medical devices, automobiles, and industrial control systems.
Enea Embedded Technology is a subsidiary of Enea AB (SAXESS: ENEA), based in Stockholm, Sweden. Employing about 500 people worldwide, Enea provides products, services, and training for a variety of real-time embedded applications. Customers include industry leaders such as Ericsson, Nokia, Boeing, Motorola, Alcatel, Volvo, TI, Agere Systems and Fujitsu. For more information on Enea Embedded Technology, please visit www.ose.com. For more information on Enea AB please visit www.enea.com.
Enea is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Attract-40 list.
OSE is a registered trademark of Enea Embedded Technology. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
For more information, please contact:
Corporate and Europe:
Heléne Wetterskog
Enea Embedded Technology
Nytorpsvägen 5
183 23 Täby, Sweden
Tel:+46-(0)8 507 141 91
Fax: +46-(0)8 507 1 40 40
Email: helene.wetterskog@enea.se
Axel Lagerbielke
Bite Communications
SE-113 59 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +49-(0)8 58 70 58 40
Fax: +49-(0)8 58 70 58 49
North America:
Danielle Schwartz
Enea Embedded Technology
Tempe, AZ 85284
Tel: 760-603-9315
Fax: 760-603-9305
Email: danielle@enea.com
Jennifer Bingham
Davis-Marrin Communications
8316 Clairemont Mesa Blvd
San Diego, CA 92111 USA
Phone: 858-573-0736
Fax: 858-573-0232
Email: Jennifer@davismarrin.com
Asia Pacific:
Masahiro Kawahara
Enea Embedded Technology
1-4-2 Kanda Ogawa-machi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan
Phone: +81 35 207 61 67
Fax: +81 35 207 61 69