PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES JOINS THE SERVICE AVAILABILITY FORUM’S EFFORTS
TO ENABLE MANAGED SERVICES
Phoenix Technologies joins the SA Forum to ensure managed services
within the communications infrastructure
PORTLAND, Oregon. – October 14, 2003 - The Service
Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) today announced Phoenix Technologies
Ltd., the global leader in device-enabling and management software
products has joined its growing list of participating industry leading
communications and computing companies. The SA Forum is the first
industry body dedicated to developing specifications that facilitate the
faster delivery of cost-effective, carrier-grade communications
equipment and applications.
“Phoenix is pleased to join the SA Forum and take advantage of the
program with other industry leaders,” said Timothy D. Eades, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Corporate Marketing and Products Division
for Phoenix. “We see tremendous potential to widen our customer and
partner base through the SA Forum, especially in industries that focus
on infrastructure equipment and applications.
Phoenix Technologies joins the efforts of the SA Forum in the
development and facilitation of the adoption of open, carrier-grade
platform and middleware interface specifications that encompass all
standards-based network equipment elements quickly and easily. Phoenix
Technologies brings its experience in communications solutions that
activate, secure, connect, and recover the world's best-known systems.
These solutions operate from the Phoenix Core Managed Environment™
(cME), where they're built in and protected from viruses, user errors,
hackers, and corruption.
"Phoenix Technologies provides expertise in service delivery
solutions that will make an important contribution to the Forum’s
efforts," said Timo Jokiaho, president of the Service Availability
Forum. "Membership continues to grow as companies like Phoenix
Technologies see the opportunity to contribute to the SA Forum’s success
in delivering standards needed for cost-effective, carrier-grade
communications infrastructure equipment and applications.”
The SAForum Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and SA Forum
Application Interface Specification (AIS) are now available to TEMs,
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Independent Software Vendors
(ISVs), and Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) on the SA Forum’s web
site (www.saforum.org). These specifications facilitate
faster and more cost-effective development and deployment of
carrier-grade infrastructure equipment and applications. In addition,
this open, standards-based interface will enable an ecosystem of
solutions providers, yielding greater focus of design resources on
innovation and product differentiation.
Historically, proprietary technologies have been seen as a means of
competitive differentiation but today, industry leaders in
communications are beginning to move from proprietary development to a
more open, standards-based environment in order to lower costs, limit
technology risk, and reduce time-to-market. The SA Forum and it’s
members are dedicated to developing and facilitating the adoption of
open, carrier-grade platform and middleware interfaces that tie together
all standards-based network equipment elements quickly and easily.
About the Service Availability Forum
The Service Availability Forum is the industry body dedicated to
developing specifications that facilitate the faster delivery of
cost-effective, carrier-grade infrastructure equipment and applications.
Created by industry leading communications and computing companies, the
Forum’s specifications represent a crucial, missing piece of the COTS
ecosystem model – open, carrier-grade platform and middleware interfaces
that tie together standards-based network equipment elements quickly and
easily. Service Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to
take part in building the availability specifications for the future.
For more information about the Service Availability Forum, or to
download the SA Forum HPI or AIS specifications, visit www.saforum.org.
About Phoenix Technologies
Founded in 1979, Phoenix Technologies (NASDAQ: PTEC) helped launch
the digital revolution when it created the industry's leading
machine-independent BIOS software, which ships in more than 100 million
new systems each year. Phoenix continues to leverage that core-level
experience to develop many other vital solutions at multiple points in
the foundation of PCs and other digital devices. Today, Phoenix
solutions activate, secure, connect, and recover the world's best-known
systems. These solutions operate from a Core Managed Environment (cME),
where they're built in and protected from viruses, user errors, hackers,
and corruption. Phoenix is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. USA
(Silicon Valley), with offices in global business and technology
centers. For more information about Phoenix Technologies, visit our Web
site at www.phoenix.com
The Service Availability Forum is a registered
trademark. Phoenix and Phoenix Technologies are registered trademarks of
Phoenix Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
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