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Brian Wood
Continuous Computing, CP-TA Marketing Work Group Chair

ATCA Summit or Bust!
byBrian WoodContinuous Computing, CP-TA Marketing Work Group Chair - Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM

We at CP-TA are packing our bags and will be spending the better part of the week at the ATCA Summit in Santa Clara, October 27-29.

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Is Off-the-shelf Too Expensive for China?
byLinsey MillerInterphase - Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:00 AM

Our inboxes have been flooded recently with so many stories of ATCA success – I often wonder how much of it I can believe?  Have we really tapped into a big enough slice of TEM development to say we’ve achieved success in the off-the-shelf mission?  I don’t know about you, but when I see hockey-stick growth for ATCA on marketing charts I have to ask myself if I really believe it will take off at this rate.  However, we’re seeing it happening every day, as the most competitive TEMs in the market are winning those ATCA-based deals.  How are they, and Chinese TEMs in particular, achieving low-cost solutions based on ATCA? 

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Sizing Up COTS: an SA Forum Perspective
byAsif NaseemService Availability Forum (SAF) - Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM

I recently spent a couple of hours with the CTO of a Tier 1 telecom equipment manufacturer (TEM) discussing the state of the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) industry.  Going into the meeting I knew that he was concerned about his R&D cost structure – especially platform development – and was actively looking at acquiring as many of the components as he could from the industry and stop spending time and resources building them in-house.

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