Trillium Digital Systems and LynuxWorks have announced the first certified application-space mapping of the Trillium System Services Interface (SSI) to LynxOS

Trillium-compliant certification of LynxOS for the Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA) means that developers can choose LynxOS for the Trillium SSI that can run Trillium protocol stacks in the application space. TAPA is a set of architectural and coding standards that ensures consistent implementation of communication protocol solutions.

This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 March 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Due to its complete independence from the target system's compiler, processor, operating system and architecture, TAPA allows manufacturers to rapidly adapt and integrate Trillium software solutions into a wide range of products.

By providing an integrated interface that is Trillium Compliant, LynuxWorks alleviates the need to perform time-consuming integration work and enables developers to reduce time to market, lessen risks and decrease costs of bringing a product to market.

Telecommunications equipment manufacturers can use the integrated, tested, industry-standard Trillium software solutions to accelerate development of feature-rich IP telephony, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and next-generation converged network infrastructure equipment.

LynuxWorks' LynxOS is a hard real-time operating system (RTOS) that combines performance, reliability, openness, and scalability together with patented technology for real-time event handling.

Scalability makes the LynxOS well suited for applications ranging from large and complex switching systems down to small, highly embedded products.
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With Trillium's SSI layer, LynxOS will enable companies to migrate tens- or even hundreds of thousands of lines of protocol stack code out of the kernel, into the application space.

This reduces kernel software maintenance and enhances system reliability because any protocol code failure that may occur is far less catastrophic in application space than in the kernel.

'The certification for Trillium's most current software release continues a long-standing relationship between our two companies, based on our mutual support of OEMs in the communications industry', said Brian Ramsey, director of communications and high availability markets for LynuxWorks.

'This agreement ensures that LynuxWorks' OEM customers can seamlessly incorporate any of a broad range of off-the-shelf communications software solutions into their applications, including SS7 over IP (SIGTRAN), SIP, IP telephony/H.323, Media Gateway Control (MEGACO/H.248), ATM and other standards-based protocols'.

'This is a huge step forward in providing more flexibility to manufacturers seeking ways to improve product reliability and performance', said Frank Morese, vice president of Marketing for Trillium.

'The software solutions provided by LynuxWorks and Trillium work together to support fault-tolerant high availability systems demanded in today's five-nines (99.999%) carrier-grade infrastructure equipment'.

The updated LynxOS/Trillium SSI package, that includes both kernel mode and service mode, will be available from LynuxWorks early second quarter 2001.