A complete AdvancedTCA (ATCA) application-ready platform with AdvancedMC
(AMC) functionality and 10Gb Ethernet fabric has been announced, by
Performance Technologies.
The new offering, which includes a next-generation ATCA 10Gb Ethernet
SWITCH, two AMC compute modules and a new ATCA 10Gb AMC carrier blade, is
the latest addition to the company's platform product line. The products,
which are also available individually, add to its 'industry-leading' family
of blade products.
The line up of ATCA application-ready platforms provides an alternative to
existing commercial and proprietary systems. Configurations include 1Gb/10Gb
Ethernet or 10/100/1000 Ethernet switches, comprehensive shelf management,
high-performance compute elements, and accommodate Linux or Solaris
operating system software and HA middleware. These configurations provide a
complete, integrated base platform for system designers looking to develop a
wide range of applications, including wireless, IMS, and VoIP, says the
company.
"Today's telecom equipment manufacturers need to look beyond developing
voice applications, rather, they need to develop 'triple-play' applications
that address voice, audio and video," said John Peters, CTO and senior vice
president of platform engineering, Performance Technologies. "The complete
platform we have announced provides manufacturers with the power, speed and
bandwidth they need to not only develop applications for the present market,
but also develop applications addressing future needs. These products
continue our long tradition of offering high availability, fault tolerant
solutions to customers and can act as the basis for many future
developments."
The ARP5210 is a 12U application-ready platform configuration with an
aggregate backplane bandwidth of 0.45 Terabit (450Gbs). It features
redundant 10Gb Ethernet base/fabric switches, comprehensive shelf
management, and compute elements enabled with Linux operating system
software and high availability middleware.
The ATC6640 is a base/fabric 10Gb Ethernet switch that fully utilizes all
the advanced capabilities of the PICMG 3.0/3.1 specifications. It features
two completely independent switching cores, each with its own management
processor, and an aggregate bandwidth of 0.45 Terabit (450Gbs) versus
approximately 50Gbs in PICMG 2.16. The dual switches each support IPv4/IPv6
switching/routing and can sustain non-blocking, full wire-speed data rates.
The ATC8010 is one of the first ATCA AMC carriers that fully exploits the
10Gb capabilities of PICMG 3.1. It supports four standard, single-width AMC
modules and can either aggregate or isolate the dual connections. This
advanced carrier then aggregates the collective bandwidth from all AMC bays
up to redundant 10Gb ATCA interconnects. The carrier also has provisions for
intra-bay connectivity for both SATA and PCI-Express. It is seen as an ideal
compliment to the ATC6640 in applications that demand a distributed,
hierarchical, high-performance ATCA/AMC architecture.
The AMC111, the first of the two AMC modules, is a 64-bit single board
compute module that features an AMD Turion single core 2GHz processor and is
designed for high-performance embedded applications. This processor is built
upon an architecture that offers advanced processing speed while addressing
power and heat constraints for an AMC form factor.
The AMC131 has many of the same features as the AMC111, with a 32-bit
processor with a 64-bit wide memory bus. Also designed for high-performance
embedded applications, the AMC131 features the Freescale MPC8641D dual core
1GHz processor and provides a highly scalable PowerPC architecture that
delivers next-generation performance and a flexible upgrade path from 32- to
64-bit computing.
Designed to run Linux, Solaris and Windows applications, both the AMC111 and
AMC131 are seen as ideal processors for high-end packet processing or
multi-threaded software environments found in IMS, wireless, softswitch,
defense or any other compute-intensive application. Both modules have a wide
range of additional features (including Micro-SD, USB2.0, ECC-protected DDR
SODIMM and 1Gb in front panel) and support for both the AMC.1 (PCI-Express)
and AMC.2 (Ethernet) at card edge. Either can be installed on the ATC8010 or
ATC6640 and be used either as a packet or adjunct processor, says the
company.
