The Holy Grail of Networking
Recent studies show Linux taking a large and growing share of the global data center market, as well as making incipient gains on the desktop. Traditional IT deployment, however, doesn't tell the whole Linux story - this open source OS is also making impressive inroads in less-visible embedded applications. On this front Linux has come to dominate design-wins in communications, consumer electronics, and other ubiquitous applications, going from upstart to leader in less than four years.
Linux's success in telecommunications and networking infrastructure includes hundreds of shipping systems that do routing, switching, security, wireless and broadband access, billing, and many other data- and voice-centric functions. Emblematic is the success of Carrier Grade Linux (CGL), the specification recommendations created by OSDL members to support the needs of communications carriers and operators. When the CGL specification was first introduced four years ago, it was deemed too "exotic" and specialized; today, CGL capabilities for availability, fault management, performance, and other areas are mainstream in the Linux kernel and software stack. Now in its third revision, the CGL requirements specification informs Linux platform offerings from eight distribution suppliers, powers the product offerings of several dozen networking equipment providers, and underlies voice and data networks around the world. For example, the wireless phone networks of greater Tokyo, much of the United Kingdom, and all of Belgium rely on CGL.
In the last two years, Linux has also enjoyed substantial gains on the "other end of the wire" -
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As many of our readers already know, all the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine have day jobs where we use Linux and open source. Some like Paul Sterne of Open-Xchange (www.openexchange.com) and Jon Walker of Linux migration specialists, Versora (www.versora.com), work for vendors. Others are practitioners like Matt Frye who manages Solaris-to-Linux migrations for a telecom infrastructure company. That's what I like about LinuxWorld Magazine; you get the unique perspective of not just pundits who are reporting on technology but anecdotal stories about real-life successes (and failures) that benefit our readers.
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