Leading Telecom Equipment Manufacturers estimate
30 percent improvement in time-to-market and project development costs by using
standards-based communications servers
TEMPE, Ariz – 22 March 2006 – New research from the Yankee Group reports that
leading Tier 1 telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) estimate that
they can realize significant improvements in project development costs as well
as an estimated 30 percent time-to-market improvement from using
standards-based communications servers. Yankee Group’s analysis estimated a
31.5 percent total cost reduction when using the example of adopting a
standards-based communications server to build a typical piece of mobile core
infrastructure equipment.
The TEMs interviewed for the survey ranked Motorola’s Embedded Communications
Computing business (NYSE: MOT) highest for ability to deliver fully-integrated
communications servers.
The report analyses the adoption of communications servers based on industry
standards such as AdvancedTCA®, Carrier Grade Linux and Service
Availability™ Forum and uses TEMs developing mobile core infrastructure and IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) equipment as an example. Yankee Group’s research
consisted of primary research with leading Tier 1 TEMs and computing vendors
and in-house intelligence.
“The adoption of open, standards-based computing platforms within Tier 1 TEMs
is poised to hit an inflection point during the next business cycle of 12 to 24
months,” said Brian Partridge, senior analyst of the Yankee Group. “As our
report shows, the time is now for TEMs to modify their product roadmaps and
business processes to make room for standards-based communications servers.
Motorola’s ranking in this study reflects its holistic approach, which includes
a comprehensive communications server line of products, an extensive portfolio
of professional services, leadership within industry consortia and commitment
to a strong ecosystem.”
“Our customers are validating the trends identified in the Yankee Group
report,” said Wendy Vittori, corporate vice president and general manager of
Motorola’s Embedded Communications Computing. “They are looking to us to
provide communications servers that help them reduce the number of computing
platforms supporting their product offerings. With Motorola’s open
communications servers, our professional services teams can leverage the
industry ecosystem to integrate and deliver application-specific servers that
enable our customers to have the best available time-to-market for their
applications.”
“We have seen increasing momentum in the communications server market segment
in the last year,” said Doug Davis, vice president and general manager,
Communications Infrastructure Group, Intel Corporation. “Driving this momentum
are companies like Motorola who can quickly deliver integrated solutions
utilizing Modular Communications Platforms, based on Intel® building
blocks.”
Another indication that the industry is adopting open, standards-based
platforms is the recent formation of a new alliance, called SCOPE. SCOPE’s 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.
To download a copy of the Yankee Group report, Standards-Based
Communications Servers for Telecommunications: Market Drivers, Inhibitors,
Perceptions and Rankings, visit www.motorola.com/computing.
About Motorola’s Communications Servers
Motorola’s Embedded Communications Computing business has a comprehensive
portfolio of open standards-based communications servers architected to meet
the needs of a broad range of communications applications. The Avantellis™
series and Centellis™ series communications servers are based on AdvancedTCA
and MicroTCA™ industry standards and run Carrier Grade Linux and Motorola’s
NetPlane™ Software suite for high service availability. Motorola’s
communications servers 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: www.motorola.com/computing.
Motorola is a Premier Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a
community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For
more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica.
Source: Motorola press release
