Both Agere Systems and TelGen are contributing compatible circuit switching software source code to the site. And, several other major players have indicated plans to contribute. For now, NMS Communications is hosting the web site and funding a limited amount of support. NMS is interested in driving growth in the CompactPCI industry and expects to profit by selling hardware and software components and support services to developers of telecommunications equipment and services. For a more complete NMS answer, refer to this NMS FAQ .
Support follows a typical open source model.
The source code is available and, hopefully, speaks for itself. And, several commercial companies are prepared to provide contract support for this code base. Initially, those companies include TelGen, Pigeon Point Systems and the Consulting Services Business Unit of NMS Communications. The majority of the code contributed by NMS is production quality code that has been shipping with NMS products for many months to many years. NMS was the first company to demonstrate hot swap of a CompactPCI telecom board and the first company to ship telecom products that support CompactPCI hot swap.