Oct 13, 2005 10:56 AM,

Oracle opens competency center in China

By Tim McElligott

Last December, Oracle launched its Carrier Grade Framework in an effort to drive standards-based modularization of communications platforms among other things related to efficiency and open software interfaces. Today, the company opened the Oracle Carrier Grade Framework (CGF) Competency Center at the Oracle China Development Center in Shenzhen, China. The CGF Competency Center, led by a development team from Oracle and Intel, will drive the adoption of standards-based technology in communications networks worldwide.

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Oracle’s CGF initiative aims to replace proprietary solos of communications technology with a modular, standards-based data management offering that combines Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, and leverages AdvancedTCA (ATCA)-compliant Intel servers. ATCA is an industry standard that provides a scalable, reliable platform architecture for carrier-grade communications applications.

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database plays a key role in Oracle CGF. It provides real-time data management for event-centric network systems such as the Home Subscriber Server, location-aware emergency services and push-to-talk. The combination of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database provides a complete data management solution for the Oracle CGF.

Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), including ASPire, Huawei, UTStarcom, Xin Wei and ZTE have expressed interest in the center and attended today’s official launch in Shenzhen. Oracle already has a center in Beijing.

The new center will develop a dynamically scalable demo solution for NEMs to establish benchmarking, as well as showcase the reliability, performance and scalability of Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Application Server running on Linux and Intel servers. It will develop a demo solution for mobile carriers in order to benchmark an application such as home subscriber server running on top of the Oracle and Intel platform. It also will develop prototype Oracle CGF solutions and produce specific and auditable performance numbers as well as optimize and tune Oracle CGF on ATCA blade servers and align Oracle CGF with open standards such as the Service Availability Forum, Open Source Development labs and ATCA.