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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: Katana 750v
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2004
Flexible interfacing for telecomms blade
The Katana 750v CompactPCI packet switching backplane telecomms blade is based on IBM's PowerPC 750FX processor.
The Katana 750v CompactPCI packet switching backplane telecomms blade is based on IBM's PowerPC 750FX processor It features two PTMC sites, five Ethernet channels, and a versatile CTBus/H.110 TDM interconnect that makes the Katana easy to configure for a variety of telecomms infrastructure applications, including WAN access, SS7 signalling, media gateways, traffic processing and soft switches
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Katana's high-speed PowerPC processor, dual PTMC sites, and versatile TDM architecture provide a unique blend of performance and flexibility", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Marketing at Artesyn Communication Products.
"Whether you're designing a Sigtran gateway, soft switch, or media gateway, Katana provides the open, flexible, high-availability platform needed to get high-performance network infrastructure products to market fast".
The Katana750v combines an 800MHz PPC 750FX processor with a Marvell MV64360 system controller, which provides high-speed access to as much as 1Gbyte of SDRAM and 128Mbyte of Flash memory.
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The Marvel controller also provides three Ethernet channels.
Two of these (Gigabit Ethernet) are routed to the cPSB backplane.
The third channel (10/100Base-T) channel is routed to an RG45 connector on the front panel.
The Katana750v also provides two additional 10/100Base-T channels, which are routed between the PTMC sites and RJ45 connectors that reside on a rear transition module.
Katana's PTMC sites, which support 32bit PCI data transfers at 33 or 66MHz, are equipped with dedicated CTBus and RMII interfaces that facilitate collaborative processing and provide direct access to external TDM and packet data sources.
Each site's local CTBus is linked through an H.110 bridge and time slot interchanger, which enables the two sites to exchange TDM (time division multiplexed data) data with each other and the H.110 backplane bus directly.
The two sites are also equipped with an Ethernet RMII interface, which enables them to send and receive packet data directly via Katana's two external 100Mbit/s Ethernet ports.
This close coupling between the PTMC sites and versatile data acquisition capability makes Katana ideal for building integrated systems that combine network access (LAN or WAN) with packet, protocol, and media processing functionality (ie DSP farm) on the same blade.
Katana's cPSB interface complies fully with PICMG 2.16, an Ethernet-based standard for moving data between cPSB boards.
Katana also supports the PICMG 2.9 System Management Bus, which provides an I2C-based Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) that makes it easy to monitor, control and exchange management information between the Katana750v and shelf management controllers.
Artesyn offers a variety of PTMC modules that make it easy to customise Katana for specific telecom applications.
Artesyn's Pm3Gv PTMC WAN interface module, for example, provides eight E1/T1 ports that enable the Katana750v to be used as an SS7 signalling blade, signalling gateway, or soft switch.
Artesyn also offers a family of PowerPC-based processor modules (PmPPC) with multiple Ethernet channels that enable OEMs to add auxiliary processing for dedicated functions like Sonet mapping, packet and protocol processing.
Katana's PTMC sites can also be used to add custom and third party modules.
By adding a cryptography module, for example, OEMs can use the Katana750v to provide secure access for applications such as VPNs, WLAN and SOHO gateways.
With a LAN module, the Katana750v can handle IP input and output in a signalling gateway or soft switch.
And with a fibre channel or OC-3 module, the Katana750v can be used as a storage area network interface or ATM end point.
The Katana750v is available with turnkey software for a variety of signalling, network interface, gateway, and network processing applications.
Artesyn's SS7 software, for example, enables the Katana750i to be used as an SS7 signalling blade that provides up to 64 signalling channels over E1/T1 networks with 100% line utilisation.
This makes the Katana750v ideal for signalling transfer points, service control points, signalling gateways and basestation controllers.
Artesyn also offers Sigtran signalling gateway software that make it easy to connect TDM-based PSTN networks to IP-enabled STPs, SCPs, HLRs, VLRs and MGCs.
Additional software support for the Katana750v includes TimeSys real-time Linux, VxWorks 5.5/Tornado 2.2, a reference kernel port for GPL Linux, and a PowerPC boot loader (PPCBoot) with power-on self test.
The Katana750v complies with all major safety, EMC, and environmental standards, including IEC60950/EN60950, UL60950, CSA C22.2, Global IEC - CB Scheme Report IEC60950), NEBS Telecordia GR-63, and GR1089 Level 3, FCC Part 15 (USA and Canada), and ETSI EN300386-V1.3.1.
The Katana750v costs less than $2000 in OEM quantities, and is available immediately for early customer involvement.
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