SCOPE Press Release
Six Contributors Join the SCOPE Alliance
Piscataway, New Jersey, November 28, 2006 – The SCOPE Alliance, an association of leading network equipment providers, today announced that six additional industry-leading companies have joined the alliance. Joining the Alliance are: Emerson Network Power, Flextronics, HP, Kontron Communications, RadiSys, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. In joining the Alliance, members are committing to its mission of enabling and promoting the availability and interoperability of open carrier-grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf building blocks.
These leading manufacturers of open specifications based subsystems broaden the perspective and the pool of experts within the Alliance, and thereby improving quality and acceleration of the time line for completion of specifications profiles.
About Emerson Network Power
Artesyn Communication Products has now become the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power. Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™. Preparing customers for high-stakes opportunities and threats, Emerson Network Power provides reliable power, precision cooling, connectivity and embedded computing solutions for IT, communications, healthcare and industrial systems. Backed by the largest global services organization in the industry, Emerson Network Power offers network reliability programs encompassing engineering, installation, project management and support services. For more information on the full spectrum of enterprise-wide solutions from Emerson Network Power, visit www.emersonnetworkpower.com.
About Flextronics
Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company that offers complete design, engineering, and manufacturing services to aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile OEM customers. With a network of facilities in over 30 countries, Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products worldwide. By combining the advantages of a vertically integrated service offering with the benefits of a global, low-cost manufacturing base, Flextronics enables customers to optimize supply chain operations, accelerate time to market and time to volume, and reduce capital investments and production costs. For more information, visit http://www.flextronics.com
About HP
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work. For more information, visit http://www.hp.com
About Kontron Communications
A global leader in embedded computer technology and mobile rugged solutions, Kontron supplies a diversified customer base of OEMs, system integrators, and application providers in the: automation, test and measurement, communications, medical, gaming and entertainment, military, aerospace, transportation, and energy markets. The company helps its customers considerably reduce their time-to-market and gain a competitive advantage with products including: high-performance open computer platforms and systems, single board computers, human-machine interfaces, and mobile rugged computers and displays. For additional information on Kontron, please visit www.kontron.com.
About RadiSys
RadiSys is a leading provider of advanced solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets. Through intimate customer collaboration and combining innovative technologies and industry leading architecture, RadiSys helps OEMs, systems integrators and solution providers bring better products to market faster and more economically. RadiSys products include embedded boards, application enabling platforms and turn-key systems, which are used in today's complex computing, processing and network intensive applications.For more information, visit http://www.radisys.com, write to info@radisys.com
About Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2005 parent company sales of US$56.7 billion and net income of US$7.5 billion. Employing approximately 128,000 people in over 120 offices in 57 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Appliance Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs.
For more information, please visit www.samsung.com
About SCOPE Alliance
The SCOPE Alliance is an association of Network Equipment Providers aimed at accelerating the deployment of Carrier Grade Base Platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to enable and promote the availability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware & software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers.
About SCOPE Alliance
The SCOPE Alliance is an association of Network Equipment Providers aimed at accelerating the deployment of Carrier Grade Base Platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to enable and promote the availability of open Carrier Grade Base Platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware & software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers.
For more information about the SCOPE Alliance, visit: www.SCOPE-Alliance.org.
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