Background

Since 1992, CES has been awarded major leading North American programs in the telecommunications industry by being able to deliver ATM switch controllers, UMTS BTS and RNC elements, which package ATM functions in a bundle, combining:

• State-of-the-art ATM technology both in hardware and software
• PowerPC PCI-based real-time multi-processor platforms
• Dedicated hardware performance enhancement devices
• The entire hardware, firmware and software stack up to the API from one single source

Since 2000, CES has been designing network processor-based solutions, allowing easy migration from ATM to IP (including interoperability of ATM, POS, TDM and ATM / IP transport media). More recently, CES has been among the first companies to develop boards, which comply with the PICMG® Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) specification and to deploy them in real situations.

Advantech Co, Ericsson, Intel, Nokia Siemens Networks and TietoEnator are amongst the users of CES telecommunication systems.

Applications

CES telecommunication advanced technology solutions have many applications in the 3G UMTS arena, although, in addition, they may support other access systems:

• Base Transceiver Stations (Node B)
• Radio Network Controller (RNC)
• Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
• Mobile Switch Center for UMTS (MSC)
• Media gateways (VoIP, circuit gateway, signaling gateway)
• Multi-service platforms

Hardware Elements

CES telecommunication hardware elements include any combination of the following:

• PowerPC-based network processor blades
• Network interfaces (Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and ATM in either PMC or AdvancedMC form factor)
• Storage devices (SATA Hard Disk AdvancedMCs)

Software Elements

CES telecommunication software elements include any combination of the following:

• Real-time operating systems (VxWorks® and Linux®)
• Drivers for all of the elements included in the system
• Libraries and examples

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