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GoAhead® SAFfire 2.0

The First Ready-To-Deploy AIS Implementation

If you are responsible for bringing a carrier-grade or mission-critical system to market, you are most likely juggling challenging requirements—bringing new services to market quicker and with fewer resources, all while ensuring uninterrupted service. Innovators like you are increasingly leveraging standards-based components to speed development cycles, reduce costs, lower project risk and focus on competitive differentiation.

GoAhead SAFfire™, is the first ready-to-deploy implementation of the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Application Interface Specification (AIS). SAFfire includes the sophisticated high availability (HA) and management capabilities found in the company’s flagship product, GoAhead SelfReliant® – proven on more than 25,000 deployments worldwide. SAFfire includes the most comprehensive implementation of AIS, featuring support of the Availability Management Framework (AMF), Information Management Model, Cluster Membership, Checkpoint, Event, Messaging, Notification, and Log services In addition to full support of AIS, SAFfire is also platform-independent. This combination equips you with the flexibility to port applications across platforms and make system changes without compromising previous investments. SAFfire was created by a skilled team with more than a decade of experience successfully designing, developing and deploying highly available systems, enabling you to reduce project risk.

SAFfire Features and Benefits:

  • End-to-end high availability and systems management
    • Helps you ensure system uptime and uninterrupted service
  • First comprehensive, ready-to-deploy implementation of Service Availability Forum AIS standard
    • Helps you ensure flexibility, choice and application portability
  • Platform and operating system independent
    • Enables you to react quickly to technology changes and avoid vendor lock-in
  • Pre-integration with leading hardware and software vendors
    • Equips you with an application ready platform that lets you focus on application development and meet project deadlines
  • Tried and tested code base, proven on more than 25,000 deployments worldwide
    • Lowers risk for your project

Find out why telecom, military and aerospace leades are already leveraging SAFfire to ensure standards-compliance, speed to time to market and focus on innovation. For more details on GoAhead products registered with the SA Forum, go to http://www.saforum.org/specification/product_registry_home/goahead.

GoAhead® SelfReliant®

The Proven High Availability Solution

Deployed on more than 15,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and military/aerospace equipment contractors who must ensure 99.999% or greater availability of mission-critical systems and applications. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers significantly accelerate time-to-market and lower development costs. GoAhead delivers     the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers.

GoAhead SelfReilant® enables telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace contractors to do the following:

  • Shorten the time it takes to build highly available systems
  • Reduce initial development costs by leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology
  • React more quickly to technology and platform changes
  • Focus development efforts on functionality that delivers competitive differentiation
  • Reduce project risk by building on a platform that provides pre-tested, pre-integrated hardware and software

GoAhead SelfReliant implements both the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) specifications (A.01.01 and B.01.01) as well as the Application Interface Specification (AIS).

For more details on GoAhead products registered with the SA Forum, go to http://www.saforum.org/specification/product_registry_home/goahead.

GoAhead SelfReliant works with many leading hardware platforms and through the use of HPI it even comes pre-integrated with leading COTS hardware such as RadiSys Promentum ATCA platform, IBM BladeCenter T and Performance Technologies Advanced Managed Platforms (ATCA and CompactPCI).

For more information about GoAhead Software, please visit www.GoAhead.com or call 425.453.1900.