Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), a U.S. software and hardware development company, with the initial focus on the telecommunications market and CompactPCI. The products developed by PPS are actively used in telephone systems of high level as well as in energy saving systems. The PPS team at Auriga traces its history back to 1997. As an integral part of PPS, the Auriga team participated in the projects for such industry giants as Sun Microsystems, Motorola, NEC, Siemens and many others. Currently the PPS team deals with the development of system software products for CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA based systems and Highly Available systems with redundant system controllers and with the standardization process driven by PICMG.