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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."

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  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).

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  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.

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  3. Odd choice of market by kruetz · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For UnitedLinux to choose such a market is definitely unusual, but is it really related to UnitedLinux being what it is, or is it a group seeing a potentially large market for their product?

    I mean, I think that UnitedLinux may have chosen this route not because it's the sort of thing they're aiming for in particular, but that they believe it's a market where Linux may be one of the best available solutions. If this is the case, however, shouldn't they perhaps be aiming to establish themselves in a "core" market first, before aiming at something like this?

    Then again, perhaps they have a bit of time and effort to burn, and if they do succeed then things may work out very well for UnitedLinux in other areas.

    OR, OTOH perhaps this is one of the markets they've had in mind for a while and just haven't made that information public before. If they'd let everyone know ages ago that this was what they were looking at, then some other vendor may have beat them to it. (Just a suggestion - I don't think this is actually the case)

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  4. great, just what we need.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    GNU/AT&T

  5. On a related United Linux Note by orpheus2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    IBM, AMD Become Part of UnitedLinux

    This should have been somewhere on Slashdot...

  6. Re:Wha? by baryon351 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to compile with --noesd and --killrust. at the moment there's problems with
    --filthybigmetalrodintheground, which only runs acceptably if there's an AMD hammer present.

  7. Smart market to move into by cylcyl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Frankly Telco Central offices are some of the most *NIX friendly environment because reliability is more important than beauty. Many telcos staved off the insurgence of Window's dominance in the corporate world and continued with using *NIX.

    So this is one territory which Linux can move into more easily because it can show clear functional improvement paths and will be less resistance because they were already using *NIX