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Advantech Selects Jungo GO-HotSwap SolutionUsing 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 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: 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:
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