ENEA Element and IBM BladeCenter

Accelerating deployment and operational efficiency in Next-Generation Networks

"Enea's Element delivers distributed, carrier-grade, SAF-compliant, high availability services on COTS technology that telecom service providers demand for their NGN services. As a result, our customers using the IBM BladeCenter can accelerate time-to-deployment with greater reliability, availability and serviceability than previously achieved with other COTS middleware solutions."

— Terry Pearson, Vice President Marketing, Enea

Establishing standards for a commercial ecosystem

The creation of an open standards, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware and software ecosystem, allows NEPs to source modular building blocks for their NGN platforms. Several industry standards organizations have accelerated this transformation including the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum), the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and the SCOPE Carrier Grade Base Platform (CGBP) architecture.

Enea's Element is a comprehensive suite of middleware services which provides a foundation for building the complex, distributed, high-performance, fault-tolerant applications required in today's NGN applications.

Accelerating application development

The ENEA Element Core Services offer a development framework to address critical NEP programming challenges.

Delivering High-Availability Services

The ENEA Element High Availability Framework (HAF) conforms to the SA Forum Availability Management Framework (AMF). The Element HAF includes extensive system Fault Monitoring, Detection, Recovery and Reporting services, with rapid detection and restart to greatly minimize service outages. In addition, software lifecycle management, including stopping, (re)starting, monitoring, and distributing redundancy role information is provided as part of Service Units and Groups.

The HAF supports standard redundancy models, such as 2N, 1:1, N+1, N+M, etc., along with flexible fail-over policies.

Sample Configuration

Services, Control, Transport, Access. BladeCenter HT. Chassis BladeCenter HT. Processors HS21 Dual Core Intel Xeon. Memory 4GB. Other Red Hat Linux.

ENEA and IBM: a winning combination

The combination of ENEA Element and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.