Scope Alliance, an association of network equipment providers (NEPs), has released its Middleware Portability Project and CPU Benchmarking Recommendations, which provides commercial off-the-shelf ecosystem vendors with new insights into NEPs’ requirements for middleware and benchmarking.
The new Middleware Portability Project addresses the middleware layer in a carrier-grade base platform (CGBP). The project was created to analyse portability and interoperability issues of the CGBP that arise when the base platform is implemented in a system composed of building blocks from various vendors.
Scope Alliance said that its CPU Benchmarking Recommendations provides recommendations to ecosystem suppliers regarding the benchmark configurations that are applicable to NEPs and guidance.
Leslie Guth, chair of Scope Alliance, said: “The Middleware Portability Project further demonstrates our commitment as an Alliance to enable the deployment of carrier-grade base platforms for service provider applications. CGBP middleware must be able to interoperate across multiple dimensions and our work in this area identifies scenarios that could impact building block interoperability and application portability.
“We developed this technical note to provide critical guidance to ecosystem vendors about the benchmarks that matter the most to NEPs. It can be very costly and difficult for NEPs to compare the relative performance of similar systems, so we compiled these recommendations in an effort to reduce the costs and overhead associated with benchmarking numerous configurations and running multiple benchmark suites.”
