3GSM debut for speedy blade

Artesyn Communication Products will demonstrate the industry's fastest AdvancedTCA telecomms blade at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France from 14th to 17th February 2005.

Artesyn Communication Products will demonstrate the industry's fastest AdvancedTCA telecomms blade at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France from 14th to 17th February 2005.

The KatanaPPB, combining up to six PowerPC processors with a high-speed ATCA fabric interface, provides a modular, scaleable, high-density solution that enables telecom OEMs to significantly increase control and packet processing performance while reducing blade count.

Artesyn will host the demonstration at its booth located in Hall 5, Stand M27.

The demonstration system, using an ATCA shelf equipped with a pair of KatanaPPBs, will highlight the board's unique board-area network, which employs separate control and switched Ethernet data planes to maximise control and packet processing performance.

Throughout the demonstration, the system will execute compute-intensive programs common to telecomms applications, while simultaneously routing real-time Ethernet packet traffic over the ATCA switch fabric.

"KatanaPPB's six processors, high-speed switched fabric interface, and dedicated control and data planes make it the industry's fastest ATCA telecom blade", said Todd Wynia, vice president of marketing at Artesyn Communication Products.

"At 3GSM, telecom OEMs will get their first look at Katana's high-speed, control, number crunching, packet processing, I/O and networking capabilities in a real system".

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