SCOPE Alliance
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| Type | Non Profit Organization |
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| Founded | January 2006 |
| Headquarters | Piscataway, NJ, USA |
| Key people | Timo Jokiaho, Chairman Dieter Carl, Vice Chairman Bo Andren, Membership Officer Henry Turko, Marketing Officer Chris Wardale, Treasurer |
| Industry | Network Equipment |
| Products | Profiles of Open Specifications |
| Slogan | Promoting Open Carrier Grade Base Platforms |
| Website | www.SCOPE-Alliance.org |
The SCOPE Alliance [1] 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.
SCOPE complements the work of industry initiatives such as PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group, and the Service Availability Forum, Open Source Development Lab [2] and others that have successfully created high quality open specifications that enable the creation of carrier grade base platforms. SCOPE will not create specifications, but will establish profiles that enable and encourage the use of COTS and free open source software building blocks based upon open specifications developed by those other industry groups. SCOPE will focus on existing open specifications it believes best meets the needs of Service Providers and identify areas where additional specification work is needed.
SCOPE has been founded [3] January 1, 2006 by Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens AG.
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[edit] Goals & Objectives
The SCOPE Alliance’s Goals [4]are to encourage and support the Carrier Grade Base Platforms (“CGBP”) OPEN SPECIFICATIONS in order to enable an efficient COMPONENT market, promote CGBPs that integrate COMPONENTS, and promote interoperability to better serve the carriers. SCOPE is a vehicle for the exchange of technical views in the field of telecommunication network equipment manufacturing without exchanging commercial confidential or proprietary information. SCOPE will not create specifications; rather it will describe carrier grade [application] profiles based on existing OPEN SPECIFICATIONS, thus supporting already established OPEN SPECIFICATION efforts.
[edit] Membership
Membership in SCOPE is open to any NEP that supports the goals and objectives of the alliance. There are two classes of memberships Sponsor Members and Contributor Members. For details see SCOPE Alliance website at www.scope-alliance.org.
[edit] Member Companies
[edit] Sponsor Members
Alcatel , Ericsson, Huawei, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Siemens AG, .
[edit] Contributor Members
Intel Corporation,Diversified Technologies Inc., Sun Microsystems, Wind River, GoAhead Software and Interphase
[edit] Operating Procedures
The SCOPE Alliance is governed by a [5] Board Of Directors elected from its Sponsor Member companies. [6] and is operated as an IEEE-ISTO Program [7] More.
[edit] Profiles & Position Papers
Profiles are subsets of existing specifications that attempt to eliminate options and promote interchange-ability of components or subsystems.
[edit] SCOPE Overview
[edit] Technical Overview
[edit] ATCA Profile
[edit] Linux Profile
[edit] Liaison Relationship
- The SCOPE Alliance has an active liaison relationship with the Mountain View Alliance [8]
- The SCOPE Alliance is operated as an IEEE-ISTO Program [9]
