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Teltronic, a manufacturer of mobile terminals, in-car terminals and infrastructure for TETRA-based radio networks used by emergency services, security services, the police and public transportation systems, has reportedly deployed MontaVista Linux in to its next-generation private radio network base stations.

 

Teltronic selected MontaVista (News - Alert) Linux to achieve a substantial increase in call capacity and data throughput required in its next-generation TETRA system and to help in providing high-speed parallel processing and fast switching between arrays of radio repeater stations.

 

Officials at Teltronic confirmed that, MontaVista Linux was selected for its high degree of reliability, scalability, and performance which can run in the TETRA modules with highest performance requirements to provide an uninterrupted flow of the enormous volume of high-bandwidth data and voice needed for today's multimedia communications.

 

Roman Abadias, Deputy Director of R&D at Teltronic. ”For users of our equipment, the network is mission-critical. Downtime is not acceptable to security or police services, so our infrastructure must offer carrier-grade levels of reliability. We chose MontaVista Linux because it comes with the high-availability features we need – such as redundancy, clustering and replication – to meet our customers’ very demanding requirements.”

 

He said that, by using a commercial Linux product that offers these features was better than trying to build and certify their own Linux. He confirmed the new deployment has saved substantial amounts of engineering effort and expense and reduced risk, and also has shortened the development time.

 

MontaVista has a history of being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and the open-source community. Company open sourced a working prototype of the real-time kernel in October 2004 and has continuously contributed to this project.

 

Company recently announced Meld, a new community for developers of embedded Linux devices that is aimed to provide a forum for developers of all skill levels to connect and share information, ideas and software around embedded Linux designs, accelerating their development efforts and delivery of commercial products.

 

“As the provider of the world's most widely deployed carrier grade Linux, MontaVista is committed to supplying customers like Teltronic with the highest quality operating system. MontaVista Linux offers the highest levels of availability, field serviceability, and security of any carrier grade OS,” said Dan Cauchy, senior director of market development, carrier and mobile platforms at MontaVista Software.