ENEA Accelerator Platform

Developing a complete software infrastructure for a next generation carrier grade telecom platform such as a media gateway, a softswitch or a radio base station requires significant manpower, a strong knowledge of IP-based networks, and a significant sum of money and time—and that’s before any differentiating applications are built.
 
Enea seeks to help network equipment providers (NEPs) solve the problem of developing a highly available, standards-based carrier grade software architecture.  The unique combination of tightly integrated and thoroughly tested high availability software products and decades of telecommunications services expertise have been combined to provide a software platform that allows NEPs to get market faster and more cost effectively.

 The Enea Accelerator Platform provides equipment manufacturers with an industry proven, off-the-shelf software foundation for the development of Carrier-grade next generation equipment. It provides the standards-based software components that are required to deliver a flexible, high performance software architecture for high availability applications.

 The Accelerator Platform packages together several key Enea high availability products with a block of time from Enea’s industry leading telecommunications services team to ensure that all components are tailored to the unique requirements of individual equipment providers.  The software components of the Accelerator Platform include:

• Carrier grade Linux operating system
  
• Polyhedra fault-tolerant relational database
  
• Enea Element SAF-conformant, HA middleware with in-service upgrade, HPI shelf management interface software and application development framework facilities
  
• Support for ConfD, the leading XML-based software solution for on-device network management             
  
• Enea dSPEED Platform - DSP subsystem management
  
• Enea LINX Interprocess Communications (IPC) services for distributed network topologies

Features and Benefits

The Accelerator Platform is designed to provide organizations with a sustainable competitive advantage in the development of next generation network products including Media Gateways, Session Border Controllers, Radio Network Controllers, and SoftSwitches. The main benefits of the solution include:

• Carrier-grade base platform that dramatically improves R&D effectiveness enabling organizations to focus their resources on true innovation, providing best in breed systems, applications and services.
  
• High availability middleware framework eliminates the burden and risk involved in creating robust, carrier-grade applications guaranteeing the delivery of reliable, high performance solutions that scale to meet market demands.  Included are unique features such as in service upgrade, chassis management, and embedded management.
  
• The use of open standards protects engineering investments ensuring interoperability in multi-vendor environments, compatibility of components and application portability for network products that are designed with 5-10 year life cycles.
  
• Intuitive, well documented application interfaces and examples accelerate the delivery of new applications and services providing the lowest overall cost of ownership.