Continuous Computing Announces Breakthrough Performance on the Sun Netra T5220 Server with Industry’s First Comprehensive Signaling Software Suite for Multi-core / Multi-threaded Processors

Trillium Multi-Core SIP Combined with the Sun Netra T5220 Running the Solaris 10 Operating System Dramatically Improves Performance, Achieving 6,000 Calls per Second

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Continuous Computing®, global provider of integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks, today announced the launch of Trillium® Multi-Core, the first comprehensive and portable protocol software suite customized for a new generation of multi-core and multi-threaded processor architectures. Trillium Multi-Core capabilities and benefits extend across the entire Trillium line of more than 60 standards-based protocols, supporting 3G High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Long Term Evolution (LTE). The benefits of this innovative optimization are already being realized in a demonstration system consisting of Trillium Multi-Core Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) running on a Sun Netra™ T5220 server, with Sun's UltraSPARC® T2 multi-threaded processor, achieving a breakthrough 6,000 calls per second with processing power to spare. This represents a performance improvement of at least two times of Trillium SIP compared with any previous generation multi-core or multi-threaded processor tested.

In order to address the triple threats of declining single processor performance, rising heat, and memory latency, processor suppliers are increasingly moving to multi-core and multi-threaded architectures. As the majority of leading silicon companies introduce processors with an increasing number of cores and threads, a new class of software that can effectively utilize each central processing unit (CPU) thread is necessary for TEMs to reap the economic and performance benefits of these progressive architectures. However, harnessing this increase in processing power requires software that utilizes each core or thread, which is where Trillium Multi-Core excels. Trillium Multi-Core is standards-based, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) protocol software that fills the gap between multi-core, multi-threaded processors and TEMs’ end applications, thereby taking full advantage of the parallel processing power. Most importantly, TEMs can realize the economic benefits of multi-core, multi-threaded architectures immediately without making substantial changes to their end application by dramatically scaling the protocol signaling and data capacity using portable Trillium Multi-Core software.

“Continuous Computing maintains product leadership by applying our unique hardware and software architecture expertise to address pressing TEM needs, and we see multi-core as an area where we can innovate to make a true and immediate impact,” said Mike Dagenais, president and chief executive officer at Continuous Computing. “As the first and only comprehensive signaling solution of its kind, Trillium Multi-Core combines the value of the renowned and deployment-proven Trillium brand with the performance benefits of multi-core and multi-threading, thereby elevating performance-for-price to the next level for a wide variety of processing architectures. Our unprecedented numbers on the Sun Netra T5220 prove what Trillium software can do on the right platform.”

Continuous Computing benchmarked the performance of the Trillium Multi-Core solution on the Netra T5220 server, based on the eight-core, 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor, running the Solaris 10 Operating System. With the Trillium Multi-Core optimizations, Trillium SIP on the Netra T5220 (part of Sun’s CMT server line with CoolThreads technology) improved performance by more than two times to an incredible 6,000 calls per second (CPS) as compared to any previous generation multi-core or multi-threaded processor tested.. The improvement in capacity equates to requiring a fraction of the hardware footprint to serve the same number of subscribers, thereby reducing infrastructure costs while improving density.

“The breakthrough performance that Continuous Computing saw on Sun’s Netra T5220 is just what customers demanding high performance from multi-threaded applications are looking for,” said Raju Penumatcha, vice president, Netra Systems and Networking at Sun Microsystems. “Trillium Multi-Core software running on Sun Netra CMT servers is a winning combination and adds to the growing number of telecom software solutions designed specifically to exploit the unique capabilities of Solaris, CMT, UltraSPARC T2, and Sun Netra.”

Trillium Multi-Core SIP software on Sun Netra T5220 servers is available now from Continuous Computing, either individually or bundled as a pre-integrated solution. For more information, please go to www.ccpu.com/products/trillium. In addition, the Trillium Professional Services team is available to assist customers in transitioning smoothly from the single- to multi-threaded processing environment. For more information, please go to www.ccpu.com/services. More information on the Netra T5220 system and Sun’s full line of Netra servers is available at www.sun.com/netra.

About Continuous Computing

Continuous Computing® provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN). More than 150 customers worldwide benefit from the company’s unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium® protocol software, AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI systems, and BladeCenter hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce platform lifecycle costs, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G Wireless, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure. The company is ISO-9001 and CMMI certified and is based in San Diego with development centers in China and India. For more information, visit www.ccpu.com.

Continuous Computing is a member of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance (www.intel.com/go/ica), Sun Partner Advantage Program (www.sun.com/partners), Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) (www.cp-ta.org), Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org), IMS Forum (www.imsforum.org), Service Availability Forum (www.saforum.org), and the Blade.org ecosystem (www.blade.org).

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