Industry Associations

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Standards Bodies And Trade Associations

GoAhead actively participates in key industry associations to define, influence and guide industry standards and ensure collaboration between open standards bodies. Here are the organizations to which we actively contribute.

OpenSAF Foundation
Service Availability Forum
Communications Platform Trade Association (CP-TA)
PICMG
SCOPE

OpenSAF™ is an open source community with projects focused on high availability middleware. The goal of OpenSAF projects is to develop HA middleware that is consistent with the Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum™) specifications. OpenSAF is freely available to anyone under the LGPLv2.1 and anyone may contribute to the code base. The OpenSAF Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established by leading communications and computing companies to facilitate the work of the OpenSAF project and to accelerate the adoption of OpenSAF in commercial products. For more information, please visit www.opensaf.org.

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GoAhead is a founding member of the Service Availability™ Forum, a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. The SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry.

Since its inception, GoAhead has been a pioneer for the SA Forum. GoAhead was the first software vendor to support the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and one of the first to support the Application Interface Specification (AIS).

For more information, please visit www.saforum.org.

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The Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) is an association of communications platform and building block providers dedicated to accelerating the adoption of SIG-governed, open specification-based communications platforms through interoperability certification. With industry collaboration, the CP-TA plans to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks. For more information visit www.cp-ta.org.

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PICMG is a consortium of over 450 companies who collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing leading edge products for these industries. For more information visit www.picmg.org.

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SCOPE 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. For more information, visit http://www.scope-alliance.org.

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