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:

• SCOPE Alliance Releases New Profiles by Paul Steinberg
  Published in advancedTCA Newsletter, April 2008
• SCOPE Alliance Update for 2007 by Ron Breault, SCOPE Member of Board, Nortel
  Published in advancedTCA Newsletter, October - November 2007
• Alliances Work To Bring COTS Platforms To Market by Shlomo Pri-Tal, James Radley and Henry Turko
  Business Communications Review, Sep 2007

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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

Industry Calendar

• June 2-5, 2008 – SCOPE Board and Technical Meetings
• 10-11 July 2008 - SA Forum Leadership Meeting
• 8-11 September 2008 - SCOPE Board and Technical Meetings
• 16-18 September 2008 - SA Forum Members Meeting
• 23-24 September 2008 - AdvancedTCA-MicroTCA Summit Europe
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