Enea introduces ENEA LINX for Linux 2.0 for High-Performance Inter-Process Communications

Enea introduces ENEA LINX for Linux 2.0 for High-Performance Inter-Process
Communications

Transparent and Reliable Services With Forward and Backward Compatibility for
Complex, Distributed Systems Projects

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, and SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 28, 2008 - Enea (Nordic
Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA), a world leading provider of network software and
services, today announced the release of Enea ® LINX for Linux 2.0, which
includes protocol and feature negotiation to enable seamless upgrades of system
subsets with newer versions of the protocol, without concern for backwards
compatibility with non-upgraded portions of the system. This addition to the
protocol ensures forward and backward compatibility with all future versions of
LINX for Linux.

“Upgrading the basic communications protocol in a deployed system has been a
large problem in the past,” said Michael Christofferson, director of product
management at Enea. “However, our new protocol and feature negotiation addition
allows upgrades to portions of the system without affecting the whole system and
also enables new subsystems to be added to an existing system without regard to
communications protocol compatibility issues.”

LINX provides reliable, high-performance, interprocess communications services
that make complex distributed systems easier to conceptualize, model, partition,
and scale. Utilizing direct message passing, LINX provides the performance and
versatility needed to satisfy local and remote IPC requirements across all CPU
(including multi-core devices), OS, and interconnect boundaries. LINX can even
act as a transport for bearer protocols such as UDP and TCP, and is efficient
enough to work with DSPs. LINX is independent of the underlying processor,
operating system, or interconnect, and has the ability to support control and
data plane applications over reliable and unreliable media, while delivering a
20 percent higher performance than TIPC. LINX also supports any distributed
system topology, from a single processor on a single blade, to large networks
with complex cluster topologies deployed on hundreds of processors in a
multi-rack system.

Any system that uses the latest version of Enea LINX is completely
forward-compatible with newer versions of LINX, and vice-versa. As LINX nodes
connect through the initial connection-establishment protocol, each node
discovers the version of the other and negotiates the lowest common denominator
of features and protocol versions that are required for effective
communications.

LINX enhances distributed system availability by providing supervision and
failure reporting for designated connections. LINX also provides built-in
support for redundant links, both for physical CPU interconnects and logical
connections between endpoints. LINX for Linux version 2.0 is available now as a
free open-source download. 

For more information, visit www.enea.com.



For more information, please contact:

Nordic:
Jenny Palmblad
Director of Communications, Enea
Phone: +46 8 507 143 24
Email: jenny.palmblad@enea.com

North America:
Danielle Schwartz Cordingley
Senior Director Corporate Marketing, Enea
Phone: +1 760 603 9315
Email: danielle.schwartz@enea.com

Heidi Rosenberg
Nadel Phelan, Inc.
Director
Phone: + 1 831 440-2405
Email: heidi@nadelphelan.com

Asia Pacific:
Marcus Hjortsberg
Vice president of software sales Asia, Enea
Phone: +86 21 6334 3406
Email: marcus.hjortsberg@enea.com

Europe:
Benedicte Bissey
Marketing communications manager, Europe, Enea
Phone: +33 1 69 18 14 47
Email: benedicte.bissey@enea.com


About Enea
Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA) is the leading supplier of real-time
operating systems, middleware, development tools, database technology and
professional services for high-availability systems such as telecommunications
infrastructure, mobile devices, medical instrumentation, and automobile
control/infotainment. Enea's flagship operating system, OSE™, is deployed in
approximately half of the world's 3G mobile phones and base stations. Enea has
over 500 employees and is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm AB.
For further information on Enea, please visit www.enea.com.

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Enea® LINX, Enea® Accelerator are registered trademarks of Enea AB or its
subsidiaries. Accelerating Network Convergence™, Device Software Optimized™ and
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