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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: KatanaT3752
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 June 2004
Top performance claims for telecomms
blade
The KatanaT3752 is billed as the industry's highest performance cPSB (CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane) telecomms blade.
The KatanaT3752 is billed as the industry's highest performance cPSB (CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane) telecomms blade Equipped with three 1GHz PowerPC 750GX processors, the new blade features five Gigabit Ethernet links, all managed by an onboard Gigabit Ethernet switch that eliminates the packet routing processor overhead incurred by traditional architectures
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Katana's high-performance multiprocessing and versatile multichannel Gigabit Ethernet capabilities make it ideal for a variety of telecomms infrastructure applications that require high-speed packet processing, including WAN access, SS7 signalling, media gateways, routers and softswitches.
"Artesyn set a new standard for high-performance packet processing when it introduced the Katana3750 last year", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Marketing at Artesyn Communication Products.
"The Katana 3752 raises the bar again, providing an additional 75% performance increase".
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Flexible interfacing for telecomms blade
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"Katana's three high-speed PowerPC processing complexes, together with its managed multichannel Ethernet capability, make it the industry's fastest cPSB blade, and the consummate packet processor".
The Katana3752 provides three independent processing complexes based on the PowerPC 750GX.
Each complex is equipped with a Marvell Discovery III system controller, which provides direct access to up to 1Gbyte of SDRAM and 64Mbyte of Flash memory.
Complex one, equipped with an additional 512Kbyte of Flash memory, serves as the PCI host.
Complex one also provides a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet debug link, which is routed to the front panel.
The three complexes are linked via a local PCIbus, which serves as the control plane.
The three processing complexes are also equipped with dedicated Gigabit Ethernet links, which serve as the on-card data plane.
Each Ethernet link is connected to a Broadcom BM5691 Ethernet switch, which manages traffic between the three processing complexes.
The switch also routes two Gigabit Ethernet links to the cPSB/PICMG 2.16 Ethernet backplane.
Katana's cPSB interface complies fully with PICMG 2.16, an Ethernet-based standard for moving data between cPSB boards.
Katana also supports PICMG 2.9 system management, which provides an I2C-based Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) bus and controller that makes it easy to monitor, control and exchange management information between the Katana3752 and shelf management controllers.
Software support for the Katana3752 includes board-support packages for Linux and VxWorks 5.5/Tornado 2.2.
The Katana3752 complies with all major safety, EMC, and environmental standards, including UL/EN60950, FCC Part 15, Class B (USA), ICES003, Class B (Canada), AS/NZS3548 (Australia), VCCI Class 2 (Japan), EN55022, EN300 386, EN55024 and applicable sections of NEBS, including Telcordia GR 1089 and GR-63.
The Katana3752 costs less than $6100 in OEM quantities, and is available immediately for early customer involvement.
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