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The convergence between telecom and datacom is a two-way process, with both worlds contributing their experience and best technology to the future network. One area where telecom companies have extensive experience is computer clustering, and more specifically, providing high-availability (HA) systems by using such technology. A well-proven product from this application area has now been released to open source. Since the mid-nineties, telecom equipment vendor Ericsson has been developing and deploying a tailor-made reliable communication protocol for their cluster-based products. This protocol, called Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC), has over the past two years undergone a significant redesign and is now available as a portable source code package of about 12,000 lines of C code. The code implements a kernel driver, a design that has made it possibl... (more)