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Why use SAFfire?
Reduce Risk. Ensure flexibility. Speed Delivery.

Here are the top reasons telecom, aerospace and defense leaders are choosing SAFfire to ensure continuous service of mission-critical systems and focus on innovation.

• End-to-end high availability and systems management
  Helps you ensure system uptime and uninterrupted service
  
  SAFfire high availability middleware sits in the middle of a system, monitoring and managing redundant hardware and software system resources to ensure 99.999% or better availability. Millisecond, stateful failover, checkpointing to preserve application data, and more than 40,000 distributed messages per second reflect SAFfire’s high performance. Real-time capture, storage and replication of system and/or application data assure continuous, uninterrupted service.
• Unmatched support of Service Availability Forum specifications
  Ensures flexibility, choice and application portability
  
  SAFfire includes a unique combination that no other HA middleware vendor on the market can offer -- sophisticated availability and management capabilities combined with unmatched support of AIS. This means that you can reduce project risk, by leveraging the stability of a product that has been extensively field tested and successfully deployed on tens of thousands of units worldwide, while at the same time taking advantage of the most comprehensive and only customer-validated AIS implementation on the market.
  
  GoAhead SAFfire is distinguished by the completeness of its implementation of the most recent AIS specifications (not only the most comprehensive, but also the most current support of AIS on the market). See the SAFfire Services Overview for details.
  
  No other AIS implementation is as complete, full-featured, or up to date on the SA Forum specifications.

  
  
• Platform and operating system independence
  Enables you to react quickly to technology changes and avoid vendor lock-in
  
  GoAhead SAFfire is based on open-standards and platform independence, enabling equipment manufacturers, network equipment providers and systems integrators choice, flexibility and the ability to quickly adapt to technology changes.
  
  Early on, GoAhead designed a small, reliable, cross-platform code base that is the foundation for all GoAhead products. This code base, the Kernel, provides both a run-time environment and a portability layer so the same code base runs across all supported platforms, giving you true platform-independence. Our products support multiple leading platform architectures (ATCA, cPCI, BladeCenter, MicroTCA, etc.), operating systems (Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, and Windows), and CPU architectures (x86, x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC, and SPARC), and can be easily conditioned to handle other combinations.
• Pre-integration with leading hardware and software vendors
  Equips you with an application ready platform that lets you focus on applications and meet project deadlines
  
  While open standards certainly do offer equipment manufacturers increased flexibility and cost savings, there is still significant effort required to integrate and validate standards-based components to build a true application ready platform. GoAhead SAFfire comes pre-integrated with leading hardware and software solutions (RadiSys Promentum ATCA chassis and blades, Continuous Computing FlexTCA pre-integrated platform and IBM BladeCenter family, and Tail-f Systems ConfD, to name a few). This means that the burden of integration and testing has already been taken care of, and you can focus resources on deploying new, revenue-generating applications on schedule.
• Tried and tested code base, proven on tens of thousands of deployments worldwide
  Lowers risk for your project
  
  Telecom, defense and aerospace leaders are already leveraging GoAhead SAFfire to ensure standards-compliance, speed time to market and focus on differentiation. GoAhead solutions demonstrate an unparalleled track-record, proven in tens of thousands of deployments worldwide. What’s more, GoAhead is home to the industry’s largest development team dedicated to building COTS HA. GoAhead’s team has more than a decade of experience designing, developing and deploying HA solutions that employ the most current technology and standards. This combination of field-tested product and top-notch expertise means you can reduce project risk while satisfying the most stringent availability requirements.