SCOPE is an industry alliance committed to accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. [More...]  [Wikipedia]

In the News

Press Releases:                

• 2008.06.12 - SCOPE Alliance Profiles Environmental Requirements to Address the Needs of the World Communications Equipment Market
• 2008.06.12 - New Members Join SCOPE Alliance to Help Promote Open Carrier Grade Base Platforms for Service Provider Applications
• 2008.05.28 - SCOPE Alliance Addresses Virtualization for Carrier-Grade Telecommunications Solutions

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Industry News:

• Save the Date: OpenSAF Developer Days
  15-16 October 2008, Munich, Germany

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Articles:

• The COTS Ecosystem--Strength in numbers by Carolyn Mathas
  Published in CommsDesign, Sep 2008
• SCOPE Alliance Update: Virtualization Package and Environmental Profile by Timo Jokiaho, SCOPE Alliance Technical Officer, and Ron Breault, SCOPE Alliance Technical Co-Chair
  Published in ATCA Newsletter, July 2008
• SCOPE Alliance Releases New Profiles by Paul Steinberg
  Published in advancedTCA Newsletter, April 2008

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Past Event Presentations:

• Keynote Presentation from the September 18, 2008 Light Reading Event: SCOPE: Leading the way to a dynamic AdvancedTCA / AMC / MicroTCA market (pdf, 1.6Mb)

Key Documents

• Governing Documents
• Position Papers
• Profiles and Gap-Analysis
  • New: Environmental Profile: Central Offices and Network Data Centers
  • New: Virtualization: Requirements
  • New: Virtualization: State of the Art
  • New: Virtualization: Use Cases
  • AdvancedMC Profile
  • MicroTCA Profile
  • ATCA Profile
  • Linux Profiles

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Work in Progress

• Maintaining and updating already published profiles and documents, such as hardware documents
• Developing Hardware Platform Interface Profile and Gap Analysis
• Working on Carrier Grade Operating System Gaps II document

Newsletters

• February 2008
• July 2007
• Oct-2006

Upcoming Events

• October 21-23, 2008 - AdvancedTCA Summit and Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA
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• SCOPE Members Meeting
  1-4 December 2008
  Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China
  Invitation, agenda, logistics and directions (pdf, 832k)
  SCOPE Members: Please login to register
• April 1-2, 2009 - AdvancedTCA-MicroTCA Summit Europe

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