PrismTech
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PrismTech, is a software company founded in 1992 by Keith Steele, John Russell and John Bigerstaff. PrismTech's USA headquarters are located at Woburn
, MA
, USA with other offices in Gateshead
, UK; Paris
, France
; Hengelo
, Netherlands
.
The company specializes in advanced software integration and middleware
software for industries including defense (military)
, aerospace
, telecommunication
s, financial services
and software defined radio.
(CORBA) and Data Distribution Service
(DDS) specifications.
PrismTech's products include:
. PrismTech is a member of the following open standards groups:
Woburn, Massachusetts
Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston, Massachusetts, and just south of the intersection of I-93 and I-95.- History :...
, MA
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, USA with other offices in Gateshead
Gateshead
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...
, UK; Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
; Hengelo
Hengelo
Hengelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the International Amsterdam – Hannover – Berlin service.-Traffic and transport:...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
The company specializes in advanced software integration and middleware
Middleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
software for industries including defense (military)
Defense (military)
Defense has several uses in the sphere of military application.Personal defense implies measures taken by individual soldiers in protecting themselves whether by use of protective materials such as armor, or field construction of trenches or a bunker, or by using weapons that prevent the enemy...
, aerospace
Aerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...
, telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s, financial services
Financial services
Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...
and software defined radio.
PrismTech products
PrismTech has built its products around open industry standards, such as the Common Object Request Broker ArchitectureCommon Object Request Broker Architecture
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture is a standard defined by the Object Management Group that enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together .- Overview:CORBA enables separate pieces of software written in different...
(CORBA) and Data Distribution Service
Data Distribution Service
Data distribution service for real-time systems is a specification of a publish/subscribe middleware for distributed systems created by the Object Management Group in response to the need to standardize a data-centric publish-subscribe programming model for distributed systems.- History :A few...
(DDS) specifications.
PrismTech's products include:
- OpenFusion - commercial and open source CORBAÇorbaChorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...
CC (programming language)C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
, C++C++C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
, JavaJava (programming language)Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
, Ada, ORBs and CORBA Services for real-time computingReal-time computingIn computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
, embedded systemEmbedded systemAn embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
s and enterprise applications, - OpenSplice DDSOpenSplice DDSOpenSplice DDS Community Edition is an open source implementation of the Object Management Group's Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems specification....
- an open source and commercial implementation of the Object Management GroupObject Management GroupObject Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...
(OMG) DDSData Distribution ServiceData distribution service for real-time systems is a specification of a publish/subscribe middleware for distributed systems created by the Object Management Group in response to the need to standardize a data-centric publish-subscribe programming model for distributed systems.- History :A few...
standard at both Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) and Data Local Reconstruction Layer (DLRL) levels, - Spectra - productivity tools and operating environment (OE) middlewareMiddlewareMiddleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
for use in software defined radio (SDR) including the Joint Tactical Radio SystemJoint Tactical Radio SystemThe Joint Tactical Radio System is planned to be the next-generation voice-and-data radio used by the U.S. military in field operations after 2010...
(JTRS) Software Communications ArchitectureSoftware Communications ArchitectureThe Software Communications Architecture is an open architecture framework that tells designers how elements of hardware and software are to operate in harmony within a software defined radio. SCA governs the structure and operation of the U.S...
(SCA) specification, - Xtradyne - CORBAÇorbaChorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...
and Web Services security products, - Professional services - training, consulting, and support.
PrismTech and open standards
PrismTech is actively involved in the development and implementation of open standards that are relevant to productivity tools and middlewareMiddleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
. PrismTech is a member of the following open standards groups:
- Object Management GroupObject Management GroupObject Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...
(OMG) - Wireless Innovation ForumWireless Innovation ForumThe Wireless Innovation Forum is a non-profit "mutual benefit corporation" dedicated to technology innovation in commercial, civil, and defense communications around the world...
(formerly Software Defined Radio Forum)