The fault-tolerant Netra ft 1800 server is a NEBS-certified system designed to meet the most stringent telecom-critical requirements for Intelligent Network (IN) and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) applications such as signal control processing, emergency 911 and directory and authentication services. Unlike competitors, who have been touting "five nines" as the Holy Grail of computing availability without delivering, Sun's Netra ft 1800 server provides greater than 99.999 percent availability today -- which translates to less than five minutes of both planned and unplanned downtime each year.

Unlike traditional fault-tolerant servers, which are based on proprietary operating systems, the Netra ft 1800 server is powered by the open, robust Solaris operating environment. Standard Solaris enables carriers and network equipment providers (NEPs) to develop applications on any Sun workstation or server and deploy the application on the Netra ft 1800 without modification, resulting in ample cost savings and significantly faster time-to-market with new services. Telecom service providers traditionally have been forced to undergo the time-consuming and expensive task of porting and testing their applications before deploying them on fault tolerant platforms, because there are no fully compatible "commercial" systems for application development.

As the Netra ft 1800 server leverages Sun's industry-leading commercial computing technology -- Solaris, UltraSPARC and Sun Enterprise servers -- Sun is able to deliver a fault tolerant solution at a much lower price point. The Netra ft 1800 can be up to fifty percent less expensive than comparable solutions from Stratus and Compaq/Tandem. (To date, HP has yet to deliver a fault tolerant system.) And while the Stratus and Compaq/Tandem servers are NEBS compliant, only Sun's Netra ft 1800 is NEBS certified by Bellcore for added peace of mind. [...read more...]

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