From:	 Annette Oevermann <aoevermann@pacifico.com>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: MontaVista Now Ships High Availability Framework
Date:	 Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:57:04 -0700

MontaVista High Availability Framework Now Shipping

Sunnyvale, Calif., October 17, 2001 ‹ MontaVista Software Inc., the company
powering the embedded revolution, today announced that its High Availability
Framework for Hard Hat� Linux® 2.0 is available immediately to customers.

The High Availability Framework is second-generation software that provides
a standards-based platform for fault-resilient systems. It was introduced
and demonstrated at Linux World and Expo in San Francisco in August. HA
Framework is targeted for ³service critical² applications that typically
have heavy I/O requirements such as switching equipment, service provider
systems, streaming media and VoIP.

HA Framework provides an open architecture platform for building
fault-resilient systems based on CompactPCI industry standards and it
enables telecom equipment manufacturers to minimize development and design
costs by enhancing the availability of CompactPCI I/O bus, network and
storage subsystems with out-of-the-box functionality such as redundant
Ethernet connections and software RAID1.

MontaVista¹s HA Framework, an add-on product to Hard Hat Linux Professional
Edition, provides the core for an open architecture high availability
solution based on PICMG (PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturing Group)
standards. Hard Hat Linux is one of the leading development platforms
available to embedded developers today.

Highlights of the HA Framework include:
- Supports latest 2.4.2 Linux kernel
- PICMG 2.12 CompactPCI hot swap
- Active/Backup Ethernet support
- Hot swap aware Ethernet drivers
- Disk mirroring (RAID 1) with boot support on x86 architectures
- Hot swap aware Hard Hat Net
- IPMI support (RadiSys only)
- Framework for kernel resource monitoring and publish and subscribe event
brokering

The MontaVista HA Framework initially supports multiple leading CompactPCI
chasses, System Slot CPUs and Intelligent I/O boards, including popular
Intel x86/IA-32 processor boards from Motorola and RadiSys and popular
PowerPC processor boards from Motorola and other vendors.

For more information, please visit http://www.mvista.com/products/hhlas.html

About MontaVista Software, Inc.
MontaVista Software, Inc. powers the embedded revolution by providing
open-source systems software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in
1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's
principal products include Hard HatTM Linux®, a Linux-based embedded source
and binary distribution, cross development platform and a set of tool kits
for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale and other
microprocessor architectures. MontaVista offers developers a family of
products and services for embedded design and development targeted for
applications ranging from communications infrastructure to thin-client and
consumer devices. MontaVista Software also provides several technology
add-on products addressing specific customer needs such as the Java
Development environment, High Availability technology, powerful graphics
toolkits and more.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California,
MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors
such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co.,
and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit
http://www.mvista.com,  email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark
of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks,
registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.