Using Jungo GO-HotSwap,
Advantech is the first to market a CompactPCI system with a
generic hot swap solution
Taipei, Taiwan; Sunnyvale, CA - Dec 13th, 2000: -
Advantech Co., Ltd. (2395.TW), the PC-based automation
company and Jungo Ltd., hardware access and
high-availability solutions provider, announced today that
Advantech has selected Jungo Go-HotSwap operating system
extension, to provide hot swap capabilities on its
CompactPCI system MIC-3032. Advantech will offer MIC-3032
with Windows 2000, and implement
GO-HotSwap as the hot swap software
infrastructure, thus offering a hot swap solution that
Windows 2000 does not natively support.
GO-HotSwap is an operating system extension that
plugs into the operating system and adds all the necessary
software layers required to support CompactPCI hot-swap.
GO-HotSwap also includes driver development tools
that enable easy development of hot-swappable drivers from
scratch. The resulting code will compile and run on all
supported operating systems.
GO-HotSwap provides the mechanism to
manage and administrate the CompactPCI bus - device
insertion and removal, resources management and allocation,
enumeration, event dispatching, and PCI device registers
initialization.
Using
GO-HotSwap, telecom/datacom vendors can now
implement CompactPCI hot-swap capabilities on Windows 2000,
NT, NT-Embedded, CE, 9x, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks, where
these capabilities are not natively available.
Advantech's MIC-3032 is a 9U-high enclosure with eight
CompactPCI slots for rack mounting. It supports H.110 CT
bus and rear panel I/O for CTI applications. Its device bay
accommodates peripheral devices such as hard disk drives,
floppy disk drives and CD/DVD ROM drives. With its flexible
modular design, various configurations can be made
according to particular application requirements. The
6U-sized 8-slot backplane of the MIC-3032 supports 32-bit
or 64-bit (optional) operation. Since the backplane
complies with PICMG 2.1 Hot-swap Specification, users can
build hot swap systems with hot swappable CompactPCI boards
and software.
"Advantech can now offer it's customers a CompactPCI
system for CTI applications that supports hot swap of any
CompactPCI device under Windows 2000, even when using
legacy PCI drivers", said Roy Tannenbaum,
Go-HotSwap product manager at Jungo.
"Go-HotSwap
answers the growing market demand for High-Availability in
Telecom infrastructure as well as other mission critical
applications", he added. Using
Go-HotSwap OS
Extension, Advantech's customers gain the advantage of live
insertion/extraction of any CompactPCI card into a
CompactPCI based back plane, for periodic maintenance and
system upgrades.
Jungo's
Go-HotSwap also transparently supports all
CompactPCI hardware, i.e. it is not dependant on the
hardware configuration on which it is running or the host
PCI controller it is using.
"This greatly reduces the
risk of uncertainty when our customers intend to set up a
High-Availability CompactPCI system," said Tim Chen,
Advantech Computer Telephony Division Director.
About Jungo:
Jungo Ltd. (www.jungo.com) is a privately held company
supplying advanced High Availability and Hardware Access
solutions. Jungo's hardware access product line, featuring
WinDriver which enables developers to quickly create custom
device drivers that can run on a multitude of operating
systems without modification, and KernelDriver which is for
standard device drivers. Jungo's high-availability product
line, including GO-HotSwap, provides a complete
solution for the CompactPCI high-availability market.
Jungo partners with PCI market leading companies such as
PLX, Altera, QuickLogic, PLDA and Linux provider Lineo, to
provide the latest connectivity technology. Jungo has
become the technological leader in the hardware access
market with thousands of customers, including companies
such as Nortel, AudioCodes, Nokia, Ericsson, IBM, HP,
Motorola, NASA and many others.
About Advantech:
Advantech Inc. (www.advantech.com) is an internationally
recognized designer and manufacturer of PC-based solutions.
Its corporate headquarters are in Taipei, Taiwan, and it
has more than twenty branch offices worldwide.
The Network Computing Group is poised to meet the rising
demand for high availability computing platforms for
applications in the computer telephony industry, including
call centers, IP telephony, UnPBX, fax-on-demand,
video-on-demand, VoIP, Internet service provider, Web
applications and more. Product offerings include
CompactPCI, rackmount computers, eServers, CPU cards and
peripherals.
For more details please contact:
Jungo Ltd.
Phone: USA (toll free): 1-877-514-0537
Fax: 972-9-8859365
World Wide: + 972-9-8859366
sales@jungo.com
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Advantech
Co., Ltd.
Phone: 886-2-2218-4567
Fax: 886-2-2218-4566
info@advantech.com.tw
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