HP has added to the telecom versions of ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity server families as well as its StorageWorks portfolio.

It says the customer has become "king" and that telecom operators are racing to streamline their networks. Proprietary technologies are giving way to open, modular IP solutions. HP figures to cash in.

Its servers and arrays have been adapted to telecom standards and can now be deployed in both telecom and IT environments. It fancies that put telecom companies closer to a converged, unified environment.

The products include the HP BladeSystem Carrier-Grade (CG) platform, the HP ProLiant carrier-grade rack-mount server, and the HP carrier-grade storage array.

Using high-end Intel processors, both the BladeSystem and the ProLiant platforms double the performance of their predecessors and provide greater energy efficiency.

The two HP carrier-grade platforms support Windows, Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS and Solaris, with HP distributing and supporting the Sun operating system on its platforms. Oracle Communications software is running on the BladeSystems

The boxes include the dual quad-core carrier-grade ProLiant DL380 G6, the carrier-grade Integrity BL860c server blade, and the upgraded dual quad-core ProLiant BL460c G6 carrier-grade server blade, which lets a single BladeSystem c7000-cg enclosure accommodate up to 16 blades for a total of 32 Intel quad-core processors in a 10U enclosure.

There is also the StorageWorks MSA2000fc G2 carrier-grade storage array with features such as snapshots for point-in-time copies of data. It supports up to 24 146GB SAS disks (3.5TB) in a single 2U enclosure, and available in a dual-array controller configuration.

HP also announced the enablement of OpenSAF and OpenHPI on BladeSystem Carrier-Grade and ProLiant Carrier-Grade rack-mount platforms. Both OpenSAF and OpenHPI are open source implementations of Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) specifications.