GoAhead® SAFfire 2.0
The only ready-to-deploy SA Forum AIS implementation
GoAhead SAFfire™ 2.0 high availability and management middleware is the most comprehensive implementation of the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Application Interface Specification (AIS) for designers and developers of carrier-grade and mission-critical systems who are challenged to meet the following market requirements:
- Need to meet stringent project schedules
- With fewer resources
- And in a way that provides platform and application flexibility
SAFfire includes a unique combination that no other HA middleware vendor on the market can offer -- the sophisticated high availability (HA) and management capabilities found in the company’s flagship product, GoAhead SelfReliant®, combined with support of AIS. This means that you can reduce project risk, by leveraging the stability of a product that has been extensively field tested and successfully deployed on more than 25,000 units worldwide, while at the same time taking advantage of the most comprehensive and only customer-validated AIS implementation on the market.
GoAhead SAFfire is distinguished by the completeness of its implementation of the most recent AIS specifications (not only the most comprehensive, but also the most current support of AIS on the market), including the following:
- Availability Management Framework (AMF)
- Information Management Model
- Cluster membership service
- Checkpoint service
- Event service
- Messaging service
- Notification service
- Log service
SAFfire 2.0 is also distinctive in its support of nearly all the redundancy models associated with the SA Forum standards: not only active/standby, but 2N and N+M. It supports all of the logical entities including components, service units, service groups, service instances, component service instances, AMF application, AMF nodes and AMF clusters. No other AIS implementation is as complete, full-featured, or up to date on the specifications.
Lastly, SAFfire 2.0 is unique in the depth and comprehensiveness of the customer testing. Telecom, defense and aerospace leaders are already leveraging SAFfire to ensure standards-compliance, speed time to market and focus on differentiation. Several customers began building real-world applications with the product before it was generally available, providing GoAhead with very useful feedback and testing to ensure that it meets the high standards for stability and performance that GoAhead customers have come to expect over a decade of outstanding service.
SAFfire 2.0: NEW FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY
GoAhead SAFfire 2.0 includes the core HA and systems management capabilities found in GoAhead SelfReliant, plus support of SA Forum AIS. Highlights include the following:
- Support for the SA Forum Application Interface Specification
For equipment manufacturers aiming to achieve standards compliance, GoAhead SAFfire 2.0 supports the SA Forum Application Interface Specification (AIS B.02 and some services implemented to AIS B.03). Specific functionality supported includes the Availability Management Framework, Information Model Management Service, Cluster Membership Service, Checkpoint Service, Event Service, Message Service, Log Service and Notification Service. For details on these services, please visit http://www.saforum.org/specification/AIS_Information.
- Sophisticated high availability and systems management capabilities
GoAhead SAFfire 2.0 features a core base of technology tried and tested for more than a decade in more than 25,000 deployments worldwide to date. This proven and comprehensive functionality lowers project risk and enables shorter development cycles. Highlights include system modeling; discovery; monitoring; high performance with millisecond, stateful failover; fast messaging and low CPU usage; embedded systems management; and a foundational cross-platform, multi-threaded kernel.
- Platform and operating system independence
Like GoAhead SelfReliant, GoAhead SAFfire 2.0 offers platform independence, enabling equipment manufactures choice, flexibility and the ability to quickly adapt to technology changes. SAFfire supports multiple leading hardware platforms (ATCA, cPCI, BladeCenter, MicroTCA, etc.), operating systems (Carrier-Grade Linux, VxWorks, Solaris and Windows) and architectures (IA, PPC and SPARC).
SAFfire Technical Product Description
