SAN JOSE, Calif.-Motorola Inc.’s Paging Systems Group has selected Sun Microsystems Inc.’s SPARCengine Ultra 2 motherboards for use in its next generation FLEX family protocol transport and infrastructure equipment, Sun Microsystems announced.
According to the company, the new motherboards will enable a scalable platform capable of supporting up to 1 million subscribers.
“Our decision to use Sun technology was based on our customers’ increasing demands for maximum processor performance, scalability and robust operating system support,” said Mike Malony, senior director of product management and marketing, Motorola Paging Systems Group. “With the modularity of UltraSPARC our customers’ investments are protected as their businesses grow and it allows our systems to be cost-effective in configurations from as few as 25,000 subscribers to as many as one million.”
The processor also will mean less latency in page delivery, Sun Microsystems said.
Motorola is expected to incorporate the technology in its Wireless Messaging Gateway and the RF-Conductor controller for both one-way and two-way messaging solutions.
The SPARCengine Ultra 2 motherboard uses up to two 167 MHz UltraSPARC UPA processor modules, each of which support a 1.2 gigabyte per second data transfer speed running the Solaris 2.5 operating system.
