The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) announced that 4D HomeNet, Acunia,
Connected Systems, Espial, Gatespace, IBM, ProSyst, Samsung and Sun Microsystems
are the first nine companies worldwide to have passed certification testing for
their OSGi Service Platform-based products. This validates the growing adoption
of OSGi deployment for the residential and telematics environments.
The availability of certified and compliant service platforms allows
customers to purchase products, confident in the knowledge that they meet the
requirements for the OSGi Service Platform Release 2 specification. The
specification facilitates the installation and operation of multiple services on
a single service gateway (set-top box, cable or DSL modem, PC, automotive
information and entertainment platform, multimedia gateway or dedicated
residential gateway).
"This is a great achievement for OSGi," said John R Barr, President
of OSGi and Director of Standards Realization for Motorola. "Producing a
compliant framework is not a trivial undertaking and the availability of so
many, just three months after the start of the program, is a huge vote of
confidence for what we´re doing for the delivery of services to networked
devices."
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