Aricent today announced joining the OpenSAF Foundation thereby joining other industry players to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products.

“Aricent is a leading provider of global telecom R&D services,” said Alan Meyer, president, OpenSAF Foundation. “We look forward to their contribution to the Foundation and the industry at large, by expanding the installed base and range of services and products that incorporate OpenSAF software.”

Aricent says that with the industry moving to moving to open platforms, such as ATCA and COTS hardware to benefit out of reduced time-to-market, reliability, ease-of-integration and cost-related concerns, it is no longer necessary to build proprietary High Availability middleware as a differentiator.

With the use of OpenSAF, companies can utilize code that has been deployed successfully in multiple commercial applications for their middleware needs, thereby reducing costs and accelerating development times.

“We are very pleased to become a part of OpenSAF. The Foundation is a tremendous initiative for the industry and priority area for a number of our customers,” said C.P. Murali, senior vice president at Aricent. “We are committed to the OpenSAF community and offer a range of design, R&D and integration services tailored specifically for this domain.”