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.
| Developer(s) | Ericsson |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1998 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Erlang |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Programming Framework (middleware, libraries, tools, database) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 (since OTP 18.0) Erlang Public License 1.1 (earlier releases) |
| Website | www |
The OTP distribution is supported and maintained by the OTP product unit at Ericsson, who released Erlang/OTP as open-source 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 CORBA Object Request Broker;
- a static analysis tool called Dialyzer;
- a distributed database server (Mnesia); and
- many other libraries.
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