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Motorola Takes Leadership Role in Accelerating Adoption of Open, Standards-Based Communications Platforms

Posted on: Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:00 CDT

TEMPE, Ariz., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing its long-term commitment to open, standards-based communications computing, Motorola, Inc. has taken a leading role in accelerating the adoption of open, standards-based communications servers by becoming a founding sponsor of the recently announced Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA).

"The mission of the CP-TA is perfectly aligned with Motorola's communications server vision of a common communications computing platform based on open industry standards," said Shlomo Pri-Tal, Director, Group Technology Office for Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing business. "By adding Motorola's experience and high level of commitment to CP-TA, we believe that the industry's ability to deliver the time-to-market, flexibility, and economic benefits of open, standards-based computing will be more quickly realized."

CP-TA's mission is to drive the creation of a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks from multiple vendors. Twenty telecom industry companies have joined to launch CP-TA and elected Pri-Tal as its first chairman.

"The CP-TA brings together industry leaders who are collaborating to establish a true standards-based ecosystem that delivers interoperable products from multiple vendors," continued Pri-Tal. "As a result, we expect that Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) will see faster time-to-market, lower integration costs, alternative sourcing and product choice and economies of scale. Specifying CP-TA certified products will allow NEPs to identify hardware and software products and be confident that everything works together."

CP-TA will develop interoperability testing requirements and test methodologies and procedures based on the profiles created by the SCOPE Alliance and specifications developed by PICMG, OSDL/CGL, the SA Forum and other standards development organizations. Initial focus will be on ATCA technology and systems.

CP-TA is co-locating with OSDL and the Service Availability Forum in Booth #13048 at GLOBALCOMM 2006. These three groups, along with PICMG and the SCOPE Alliance will share how they are working together in an Interop Panel on June 5 at 2 p.m. in the CP-TA booth. Show attendees also will have the opportunity to hear CP-TA introductory presentations from CP-TA members and see two interoperability demonstrations.

About Motorola's Communications Servers

Motorola's communications servers are open, fully integrated systems that act as a common, carrier-grade platform for a wide range of applications. This common platform concept integrates hardware and software elements to enable equipment manufacturers to focus on adding their application-specific value, thereby reducing the time, cost and risk involved in deploying new revenue-generating applications or migrating existing applications to standards-based technology. For more information: http://www.motorola.com/computing .

About Motorola

Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com/ .

About CP-TA

The Communications Platforms Trade Association is a global organization of communications platform and building block providers whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of SIG-governed, open-specification-based communication platforms through interoperability certification. Sponsor companies include Intel, Motorola, Artesyn Technologies, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Kontron, MontaVista Software, Nortel Networks and Wind River. For more information about the CP-TA, visit http://www.cp-ta.org/ .

MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. AdvancedTCA and ATCA are registered trademarks and MicroTCA is a trademark of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. Service Availability is a proprietary trademark used under license. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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Motorola, Inc.

CONTACT: Lee Ann Kuster, Embedded Communications Computing,+1-602-438-3623, or leeannkuster@motorola.com , or Shreek Raivadera, EmbeddedCommunications Computing, +44 (0) 1509 634461, or shreek@motorola.com , bothof Motorola

Web site: http://www.motorola.com/http://www.motorola.com/computinghttp://www.cp-ta.org/

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