Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

UnitedLinux Pushes Into Telecom Market

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-reasonable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It would seem that UnitedLinux is pushing into the telecomms market according to this article at ITWorld. Is this the first market they are trying to meander into? I perticularly like this quote: 'Telecommunications grade servers must meet specific standards regarding electromagnetic interference, electrostatic discharge, corrosion, grounding and seismic durability.' Hmmmm."

3 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. just to test that +1 bonus situation by RealAlaskan · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here are some links on carrier grade linux. Usually I'd post this anonymously, but I want to test ...

    one, two (looks interesting), three (looks interesting and authoritative).

    --
    See what I've been reading.
  2. NEBS Certification by Tony · · Score: 4, Informative

    NEBS certification (to which your favorite quote refers) is a hardware standard pretty much required for most telecom installations. I have no clue why a Linux distribution representative is talking about hardware, unless they plan on selling compact-PCI or VME-bus hardware with UnitedLinux pre-installed.

    Anyway, the NEBS certification requires testing for the amount of time the hardware smokes after being set on fire, how well it withstands water damage, and such. This is the kind of hardware you buy when five nines just aren't enough.

    --
    Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
  3. On a related United Linux Note by orpheus2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    IBM, AMD Become Part of UnitedLinux

    This should have been somewhere on Slashdot...