The SCOPE Alliance is a non-profit industry alliance aiming at accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf

Commercial off-the-shelf

In the United States, Commercially available Off-The-Shelf is a Federal Acquisition Regulation term defining a nondevelopmental item of supply that is both commercial and sold in substantial quantities in the commercial marketplace, and that can be procured or utilized under government contract...

 (COTS) hardware / software and Free and open-source software (FOSS) building blocks, and to promote interoperability between such components.