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Standards Bodies And Trade Associations
GoAhead actively participates in key industry associations to define, influence and guide industry standards and ensure collaboration between open standards bodies. Here are the organizations to which we actively contribute.
Blade.org Communications Platform Trade Association (CP-TA) PICMG SCOPE Service Availability Forum
Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. This organization is intended to create new solutions, maximizing the value of the blade platform. More information is available at www.blade.org.
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The Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) is an association of communications platform and building block providers dedicated to accelerating the adoption of SIG-governed, open specification-based communications platforms through interoperability certification. With industry collaboration, the CP-TA plans to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks. For more information visit www.cp-ta.org.
PICMG is a consortium of over 450 companies who collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing leading edge products for these industries. For more information visit www.picmg.org.
SCOPE 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. For more information, visit http://www.scope-alliance.org.
GoAhead is a founding member of the Service Availability™ Forum, a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. The SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry.
Since its inception, GoAhead has been a pioneer for the SA Forum. Currently, GoAhead CTO, Asif Naseem, is the president of the SA Forum. GoAhead was the first software vendor to support the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and one of the first to support the Application Interface Specification (AIS).
For more information, please visit www.saforum.org.
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