Motorola Computer Group and several collaborating companies have reaffirmed their commitments to build system-level platforms and products that adhere to the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) Backplane Communications standard (PICMG 2.16), ratified last week at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston. Motorola, which provides embedded boards and system-level platforms for nine of the world's top 10 telecommunications OEMs, recently announced its Multi-Service Packet Transport Platform (MXP). The MXP, which adheres to PICMG 2.16 and functions as an embedded applications platform, helps provide the industry's fastest throughput (more than 700Gbit/s) with the flexibility and scalability needed to deliver multiple services that can connect to different networks - IP and ATM.
Companies collaborating on embedded designs in support of PICMG 2.16 and the new multi-service platform include Brooktrout, Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group, NMS Communications, NetPlane Systems, Performance Technologies, SBE, Wind River and ZNYX Networks.