====== Open Telecom Platform (OTP) ======
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**Open Telecom Platform (OTP)** is a collection of useful middleware, libraries, and tools written in the Erlang programming language. It is an integral part of the open-source distribution of Erlang. The name **OTP** was originally an acronym for **Open Telecom Platform**, which was a branding attempt before Ericsson released Erlang/OTP as open source. However, neither Erlang nor **OTP** is specific to telecom applications.

The **OTP** distribution is supported and maintained by the **OTP** product unit at Ericsson, who released Erlang/OTP as [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:o:oss]] in the late 90s, to ensure its independence from a single vendor and to increase awareness of the language.

It contains:

  * an Erlang interpreter (which is called BEAM)
  * an Erlang compiler
  * a protocol for communication between servers (nodes)
  * a [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:c:corba]]
  * a static analysis tool called Dialyzer
  * a distributed database server (Mnesia)
  * many other libraries.

Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Telecom_Platform ]]


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