STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 26 Aug. 2007. Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA), in Stockholm, Sweden, announced the availability of Element version 2.2 -- the latest version of Enea's carrier-grade middleware platform.

The upgrade improves levels of service continuity through an application management framework (AMF) that is aligned with the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) AIS-AMF specification.

Carrier-grade systems must be able to deliver high availability (99.999 percent or greater system uptime) without loss of service continuity. Achieving this goal requires the system to be able to maintain customer data and session state without disruption across a wide variety of fault-recovery scenarios.

To achieve this, availability software must be able to manage all the heterogeneous resources involved in delivering the service. In an open building-block design, middleware manages critical resources to enable continuity of delivered services.

Enhancements to the latest release of Element include software management of application executables, image verification and synchronization, cluster boot, image distribution, and support for node-level upgrades; high availability support for SAF AMF service units and service groups, and N+M redundancy model; and support for heterogeneous, mixed-endian processing environments.

For more information contact Enea online at www.enea.com.