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| Type | Non Profit Organization |
| Founded | January 2006 |
| Headquarters | Piscataway, NJ, USA |
| Key people | Magnus Karlson, Chairman Eric Chacron, Vice Chairman Timo Jokiaho, Technical Co-Chair Paul Steinberg, Technical Co-Chair Bo Andren, Membership Officer Henry Turko, Marketing Officer Leslie Guth, Marketing Officer Chris Wardale, Treasurer |
| Industry | Network Equipment |
| Products | Profiles of Open Specifications |
| Slogan | Promoting Open Carrier Grade Base Platforms |
| Website | www.SCOPE-Alliance.org |
The SCOPE Alliance [1] 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. SCOPE complements the work of industry initiatives such as PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group], and the SAForum, The Linux Foundation and others that have successfully created high quality open specifications that enable the creation of carrier grade base platforms. SCOPE will not create specifications, but will establish profiles that enable and encourage the use of COTS and free open source software building blocks based upon open specifications developed by those other industry groups. SCOPE will focus on existing open specifications it believes best meets the needs of Service Providers and identify areas where additional specification work is needed. SCOPE has been founded [2] January 1, 2006 by Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens AG.
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Goals & Objectives
The SCOPE Alliance's Goalsare to encourage and support the Carrier Grade Base Platforms (“CGBP”) open specifications in order to enable an efficient component market, promote CGBPs that integrate components, and promote interoperability to better serve the carriers. SCOPE is a vehicle for the exchange of technical views in the field of telecommunication network equipment manufacturing without exchanging commercial confidential or proprietary information. SCOPE will not create specifications; rather it will describe carrier grade [application] profiles based on existing open specifications, thus supporting already established open specification efforts.
Membership
Membership in SCOPE is open to any NEP that supports the goals and objectives of the alliance. There are three classes of memberships Sponsor Members, Contributor Members and Supporter Members. For details see SCOPE Alliance website at www.scope-alliance.org.
Member Companies
Sponsor Members
Alcatel-Lucent , Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel.
Contributor Members
Diversified Technology Inc., Emerson, ENEA, Flextronics, GE Fanuc Embedded, GoAhead Software, Intel Corporation, Interphase, kontron, Monta Vista, Red Hat, RadiSys, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Ulticom, VirtualLogix, and Wind River
Supporter Members
Operating Procedures
The SCOPE Alliance is governed by a Board Of Directors elected from its Sponsor Member companies and is operated as an [IEEE-ISTO Program] .
Profiles & Position Papers
Profiles are subsets of existing specifications that attempt to eliminate options and promote interchange-ability of components or subsystems.
SCOPE Overview
Technical overview
ATCA Profile
AMC Port Map Gap-Analysis
Linux Profile
Carrier Grade Middleware Profile
JavaEE and SAForum
Liaison Relationship
- The SCOPE Alliance has an active liaison relationship with the Mountain View Alliance [3]
- The SCOPE Alliance is operated as an IEEE-ISTO Program [4]
