OpenClovis

About OpenClovis

Founded in 2002, OpenClovis provides infrastructure software focused on high availability and scalability for networking, computing, and defense products. The company, which was backed by venture capitalists including Intel Capital, American River Ventures, and Sevin Rosen, developed its products with an investment of $40 million. OpenClovis targets its solutions at enterprise and service-provider operators, enabling them to build and deploy carrier-class products. Clients include major tier-1 networks like Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint, as well as companies such as Sonus, HP, Ericsson, NASA, and Lockheed Martin.

The core of the company's offering is the SAFplus platform, a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software infrastructure that furnishes the management and system software required for carrier-grade applications. This allows development teams to concentrate on creating value-added features rather than foundational system functions. SAFplus is designed to provide 99.999% availability through rapid failover, low-latency connections, and comprehensive fault detection for both software and hardware. Its modular architecture allows for scalability across hundreds of nodes. The platform runs on various operating systems, including Linux and Wind River's PNE & VxWorks, and supports multiple hardware platforms like PICMG AdvancedTCA, BladeCenter/T, HP BladeSystem, and Oracle's Sun Netra Servers.

OpenClovis also offers a suite of development tools to complement its main platform. The OpenClovis Integrated Development Environment (IDE), based on Eclipse, simplifies the development and configuration process through a graphical UML editor and stores project information in XML files. Additionally, the Test Automation Environment (TAE) provides a framework for lifecycle testing, from unit and component testing to system and regression testing, complete with advanced reporting capabilities. For cluster management, the company provides the Runtime Director, a web-based solution that allows for the graphical viewing and modification of all SAF AMF entities within a cluster.