MontaVista Linux CGE 6.0 Compliant with Linux Foundation's CGL 5.0 Specification

MontaVista (News - Alert) Software announced that MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 6.0 is compliant with the Linux Foundation’s Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 specification.

Patrick MacCartee, Director of Product Management for MontaVista Software said in a release, “As the provider of the world’s most widely-deployed carrier grade Linux, MontaVista is committed to rapidly deliver compliant, certified and high-performance operating systems to network equipment providers along with world-class service and support.”

“We designed our CGE 6 product from the ground up to be compliant with the CGL specification and deliver industry leading networking performance,” MacCartee added.

MontaVista’s Carrier Grade Edition has been specially designed for the telecommunications and data communications industry. It also forms the standard foundation of a COTS Carrier Grade Linux platform which can match the performance requirements of high availability, serviceability, hardening and real-time.

MontaVista sources said that the company was committed to meeting all major industry standards besides being the only Linux distribution globally to comply with the three key requirements issued by CGL, Linux Standard Base (LSB) and IPv6.

Also MontaVista’s Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) is the only embedded Linux that has been Oracle (News - Alert) certified. This certification indicates that MontaVista is striving to gain CGE interoperability with industry software and hardware and can meet all the demands of current and future multi-core network infrastructures.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation (News - Alert) said, “As a key contributor to the CGL 5.0 specification, MontaVista has shown its strong commitment to the Linux community. We are glad to accept MontaVista's CGL registration of compliance.”

The term “Carrier grade” is used for software and hardware products that support public telecommunications and data communications networks. It is necessary for carrier grade products to feature very high reliability and scalability to provide an uninterrupted flow of the huge volumes of high-bandwidth data and voice that are present in multimedia communications.

According to officials MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition is a widely deployed carrier grade Linux solution in the world and network equipment providers or NEPs like Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, NEC, and other leading suppliers employ it widely.

In October 2010 Cavium Networks (News - Alert), a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products and MontaVista Software, announced the availability of a reference platform with Android (on the ECONA dual core ARM (News - Alert) processors.