Documents within include outlines for industry-standard interoperability criteria and other testing procedures for AdvancedTCA (
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“The growing number of Network Equipment Providers turning to the ATCA form factor demand that building blocks from multiple suppliers are interoperable,” said Nirlay Kundu, CP-TA compliance chairman.
“The TPM and ICD documents are being used today by many commercial-off-the-shelf ATCA building block suppliers to ensure their products are interoperable across the industry. These documents, along with accompanying test tools, are proven to significantly reduce integration time and provide a cost and time-to-market advantage,” Kundu said.
CP-TA conducted a demonstration using the TPM and ICD documents and corresponding test tools for integrating building blocks for an IPTV (
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Chris Wardale, chair of the SCOPE Alliance (
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The new enhancements include simplification of the documents for structuring test procedures on a one-to-one basis with the structure of the PICMG (
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The Communications Platforms Trade Association (
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