A Modular, Cost-Effective Application Service

Platform Software for Next-Generation

Communication Systems

Features and Benefits Today’s telecom companies operate in a OpenClovis IDE enables designers to
rapidly-changing marketplace. Converged capture the information model through
• Integrated with AdvancedTCA
multimedia networks, voice over IP, UML notations, and then save it as an XML
and COTS Systems deregulation, and other factors demand a file. Developers can choose to work within
• Enhances developer high level of marketplace agility to maintain the familiar command line interface, or they
productivity profitability. can use the drag-and-drop user interface for
• Reduces time-to-market a more intuitive user experience. This dual
In turn, equipment makers are under
approach accelerates the learning curve,
• Ensures reusability of enormous pressure to provide next-
reducing development time and enhancing
core development efforts generation communication platforms that
user accuracy.
are scalable, manageable, and continuously
• Offers platform-independent available. Minimizing time-to-market and A Standards-Compliant
modeling and implementation development costs is essential to effectively Solution
• Increases development process compete in this environment.
consistency The OpenClovis solution is a key
In response to these challenges, OpenClovis component in the creation of standards-
• Minimizes software footprint has created a modular, cost-effective based, next-generation telecom platforms.
for optimized performance application service platform for next- By embracing a standards-based approach,
generation communications systems. This three key benefits can be realized:
streamlined approach enables network
equipment vendors to create standards- • Time-to-market is greatly accelerated by
compliant, highly-available devices that leveraging standards-based architectures
feature quick integration of telecom in both hardware and software
applications onto the OpenClovis platform.
• Application integration is dramatically
Whether you are designing a one-unit rack- accelerated by utilizing the high-
mounted appliance, a multi-blade chassis- availability OpenClovis solution
based switch, or a dense infrastructure of
• Hardware and software components can
meshed devices, the modular OpenClovis
be deployed into devices manufactured
middleware platform can give your
by a wide range of equipment makers,
company the competitive advantage you’ve
An Open Source Solution been looking for. The scalable solution
breaking the costly proprietary
stranglehold which has slowed industry
OpenClovis released its code offers a broad array of reusable, portable
innovation
base in May, 2006 to the open software components that not only reduce
source community. Guidelines development costs — they also facilitate OpenClovis provides full support for
are now available to open the creation of portable designs that can a broad range of industry standards,
source users enabling them to be quickly customized for any standards- including:
compliant platform.
test the code, make changes, Advanced Telecom Computing
and share their results with OpenClovis provides a hardware- and Architecture (AdvancedTCA) is a series
the open source community operating system-agnostic environment. of standards that define the parameters
as a whole. This enables most applications to be quickly for both interoperability and component
scaled to run on multiple form factors interchangeability of high-availability
Already in use by leading without major changes. And the modular carrier-grade communications equipment
network equipment approach enables designers to use only the
manufacturers, including Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) defines a set of
necessary components, ensuring optimal
HP and IBM, OpenClovis operating system requirements addressing
performance by minimizing the platform’s
will continue to offer its the availability, scalability, and service
software footprint.
response characteristics needed in next-
industry-leading, tested, and
OpenClovis is configured by OpenClovis IDE, generation carrier-grade platforms and
commercially-viable product an integrated development environment applications
suite. OpenClovis is designed designed to accelerate the development
to facilitate the creation of SA Forum Application Interface
of telecom software on the OpenClovis
a broad range of telecom Specification (AIS) provides interfaces to
platform. The powerful Eclipse-based
devices, including routers, the availability management framework,
graphical user interface streamlines the
and delivers services for checkpointing,
switches, media gateways, and process of creating system resources and
event notification, messaging, cluster
wireless infrastructure nodes. components, and defining the attributes
membership, and distributed locking
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 The OpenClovis Architecture Platform and Component
SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface (HPI)
facilitates the administration of sensors monitoring
the vital signs of all hardware resources, and
Manageability (continued)
enables platform management software to control • Component Manager monitors the
components via a technology-independent interface. health and controls the state (start, stop,
resume, restart, suspend, and kill) of all
The need for a standards-compliant, modular, and
active service components executing
cost-effective solution has become increasingly
within the system
urgent. OpenClovis is uniquely positioned to
deliver a next-generation solution that enhances • Chassis Manager supervises the
developer productivity, accelerates time-to-market, components of a chassis’ field replaceable
and ensures the portability and reusability of units (FRUs), such as blades, AMCs, and
critical system components. PMCs. Capable of detecting hot-swapped
modules, the system is able to receive
instructions from other system resources
High Availability
Ensuring high availability across the network
is a key concern in mission-critical telecom OpenClovis Management
environments. The OpenClovis architecture delivers Infrastructure
a high degree of redundancy, delivering access
OpenClovis provides a unified infrastructure
to key services via three highly-resilient traffic
for managing the entire system.
handling and system recovery mechanisms.
• Mediation Manager provides a unified
•R
 edundancy Manager controls the active and
interface to the external management
standby availability states of components that are
protocols and services (CLI, SNMP) to
providing a given service, and supports automatic
control the configuration and operation of
failover according to user-configured policies.
all managed objects within the system.
The Redundancy Manager organizes redundant
components in various configurations, such as 1:1 • Clovis Object Registry (COR) is a
and N+M. distributed, object-oriented database
that captures and stores data on system-
•C
 heckpointing Manager delivers redundant
managed objects and the relationships
component synchronization of run-time data and
between them. COR also manages the
context to ensure smooth failover if a fault occurs.
object life-cycle, transactions on multiple
• Group Membership services assist applications objects, object change notifications, and
and other OpenClovis components to define, form, object change propagation across all the
manage and monitor service groups. various distributed MOs.

Platform and Component • Logging Manager is a syslog-based

infrastructure that enables administrators
Manageability to record significant events in the system.
Another aspect of achieving mission-critical • Transaction Manager provides an
availability is providing comprehensive platform infrastructure library that uses transaction
and component manageability. semantics to manage distributed data,
•P
 rovisioning Manager is a client module that enabling components that need to
is automatically bound to every component participate in a transaction to act as a
that manages a hardware resource. Provisioning resource manager.
attributes are created and deleted as components • Event Manager provides a flexible,
start and terminate service. scalable, distributed service infrastructure
•A
 larm Manager provides an infrastructure for for event notification across multiple
configuring alarms, and defining the actions to be blades. Maintains a copy of the local
taken when an alarm is generated. • OS Abstraction Layer (OSAL) provides • Transport Object (TO) provides a • Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) subscriber database for resilient system
an OS-independent software layer that standardized interface to underlying provides OpenClovis and applications with recovery in the event of a server failure.
•F
 ault Manager offers a hierarchical system for enables common, uniform APIs and custom communication links and protocol stacks. It a hardware-agnostic interface to processors
managing both hardware and software faults. applications to access OS services required can operate over UDP/IP and any underlying located on the peripheral hardware. • Name Service replicates the name
Faults can be prioritized to ensure they are by the OpenClovis runtime environment. IP-capable link, or it can be mapped directly to database across all nodes to allow efficient,
responded to in the order of their importance, and the link layer such as Ethernet, ATM, or RapidIO. scalable lookups between applications
associated actions can be specified. and the local name server. Provides one-
to-one mapping between the name of a
• Remote Method Dispatch (RMD) • Intelligent Object Communication (IOC) service and its object reference.
transparently invokes methods exported by provides messaging services between
various software components, regardless objects distributed across various blades,
of whether the object resides locally or is and allows location transparent addressing.
located on a remote blade.
OpenClovis IDE — an innovative, model-driven
approach for system architecture and design.

OpenClovis IDE is an integrated The physical (resource) view clearly displays OpenClovis IDE facilitates collaborative work
development environment designed to the chassis, blades, daughtercards, network by clearly separating out generated code
simplify and accelerate the development ports, other devices, and the software that is user-modifiable. The advanced design
of application service platforms for the entities running on the displayed hardware. framework anticipates the incremental
telecom marketplace. Coupled with The physical containment hierarchy is used development of a system under design,
the OpenClovis platform, the intuitive to define the Managed Object (MO) tree, enabling user changes to be read back into
software solution streamlines the process and to derive the MO path (addressing) the IDE and modified on an as-needed basis.
of specifying the information model, information.
high availability (HA) aspects, and the
The logical (component) view displays
communication infrastructure of a system.
service availability of the system, using
This advanced application stores all concepts such as cluster, nodes, service
information describing a project in well- units, service groups, service instances,
defined XML files that can be modified by proxy components, non-proxy components,
the user, and generates customized code and proxied components.
ready to run on the OpenClovis platform.
OpenClovis IDE provides the ability to
generate and compile code, and deploy
the resulting image onto the target system
under development.
The Eclipse-based graphical user interface
streamlines the process of system
modeling, information modeling, and
product development on the OpenClovis
platform. Modeling of system resources and
their relationships such as containment,
aggregation, and inheritance are specified
using a graphical UML editor. Modelled
artifacts are reusable across multiple
projects, shortening development time and
increasing design team efficiency.
OpenClovis IDE provides two views: the
physical (resource) view, and the logical
(component) view. These two views are
linked, delivering a high level of visibility
into the system under development.

OpenClovis IDE, an Eclipse-based development environment

(Component Editor View shown).

About OpenClovis: OpenClovis is the leading provider of application service platform software to the telecommunications industry. Founded in 2002, OpenClovis
is leveraging more than 450 years of collective communications systems expertise to revolutionize the development and deployment model for next-
generation communication systems. OpenClovis delivers a modular, end-to-end software solution for creating application service platforms. This innovative
approach enables solutions integrators, network equipment providers (NEPs), and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to bring new products to market
more quickly, with smaller investments in R&D. By using the innovative OpenClovis software infrastructure design platform, customers can gain a competitive
advantage in today’s fast-moving and converging market environment. OpenClovis is headquartered in Petaluma, California, in the heart of Telecom Valley, and
also has a significant R&D facility in Bangalore, India.

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