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Keate Despain
RadiSys

ATCA Interoperability: Industry-Wide Effort, Industry-Wide Benefits

byKeate DespainRadiSys - Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM

I was recently thinking about the financial challenges currently facing world wide markets, with their impact on the telecom industry, and how they impact companies trying to develop higher performance products, with fewer development dollars. What could the CP-TA message provide as a benefit? Well, a whole lot of benefit, in my opinion.

COTS: Saving Money & Time

byBrian WoodContinuous Computing, CP-TA Marketing Work Group Chair - Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:00 PM

It seems that network equipment providers (NEPs) are in a bit of a pickle.

On one hand, the financial condition of the Tier 1 NEP community is “not strong”. Some are going bankrupt and others are talking about 15-20% year-over-year quarterly revenue declines. NEP jobs are being shed by the thousands and morale and near-term optimism is thus “not strong”. It would seem that, if you’re a NEP, life sucks.