Email from James Botte, Nortel to John Rynearson, VITA

RE: TEMPE Report for Geneva VSO Meeting

Date: 25 Mar 1998 22:52 EST

As I communicated to some of the people who have expressed interest in
the TEMPE project, I start my new position April 13, 1998 as the Concorde
ATM Switch project, OEM Systems department. I will be responsible for the
development and low-level integration of their new VME-based Control Element.
I will no longer be working on the NAV project. The jist of this is that I
will be concentrating on *new* development in the VME domain, and I have
received commitment by my new management team regarding my VSO
participation and attendance at meetings. I will also be officially
starting a Nortel-wide VME User's Group with its first meeting sometime
this summer (I hope).

As for TEMPE (the Telecommunications and Enterprise Multimedia Platform
and Environment proposal), I have made some key decisions regarding how
I'm going to approach it from the stanpoint of attempting to get it
adopted as a VSO standard. I also have plans for the May meeting in
Phonix, AZ to announce some technical details and revised timelines.
Most importantly, I have decided to break TEMPE into smaller, more
manageable, and perhaps less controvertial components. In specific, the
backplane and system controller portion of TEMPE (the key technical
innovation) will be done as a stand-alone item. The packaging (VME
Advantage Packaging -- as shown in Vancouver, BC) will be a totally
seperate stand-alone item. These two items and the additional items
given at my initial TEMPE presentation will be integrated into a
"meta" standard at some point down the road.
It is my expectation, that by the May meeting, formal working groups
will be created to address the proposals I am advancing immediately
as stand-alone proposals, independent of the overall TEMPE concept.

James Botte, Nortel
Concorde OEM Systems
jbotte@nortel.ca
613-765-5781