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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: KatanaQp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 June 2005
Telecomms blade gains Carrier Grade
Linux support
Artesyn Communication Products has announced the availability of Wind River Systems' Platform for Network Equipment for Artesyn's KatanaQp AdvancedTCA telecomms blade.
Artesyn Communication Products has announced the availability of Wind River Systems' Platform for Network Equipment for Artesyn's KatanaQp AdvancedTCA telecomms blade Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment combines Linux 2.6 and OSDL Carrier Grade Linux with Wind River's Eclipse-based Workbench development suite and a rich set of networking middleware
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The KatanaQp is a new AdvancedTCA (ATCA) processor blade for telecomms infrastructure applications.
Telecomms blades gain development support
Artesyn Communication Products and Wind River Systems have joined forces to offer the Wind River Platform for Network Equipment on Artesyn's telecomms blades.
The platform makes it easy for telecom OEMs to develop and deploy network infrastructure equipment based on Artesyn's KatanaQp ATCA blade.
The KatanaQp is a high-performance ATCA telecomms blade that combines two PowerPC MPC7447A processors with four PTMC expansion sites, IPMI-based system management, and a PICMG 3.1-compliant ATCA interface.
The KatanaQp's high-speed PowerPC processors, switched fabric ATCA interface, flexible mezzanine expansion, and integrated system management make it easy to configure for a wide variety of control and packet processing applications, including WAN access, SS7/Sigtran signalling, media gateways, traffic processing, wireless basestations and softswitches.
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Blade and mezzanine card make the most of PowerPC
Artesyn Communication Products has released two enhanced telecomms infrastructure products based on Freescale's advanced MPC7448 PowerPC processor.
Blades and modules take Linux onboard
Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing has announced the availability of MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux for its KatanaQp AdvancedTCA blades and PmPPC7448 ProcessorPMC modules.
Processors combine to boost infrastructure power
A new dual-processor PowerPC PCI Mezzanine Card is aimed at telecomms infrastructure applications.
"We are seeing tremendous interest in embedded Linux as a platform for building high-availability network infrastructure products", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Marketing at Artesyn.
"Wind River has taken the lead in combining carrier-grade Linux with an easy-to-use development environment".
"Its Platform for Network Equipment, together with our configurable multiprocessor KatanaQp blades, provide an excellent foundation for building a wide range of high-performance ATCA-based network infrastructure systems".
Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment provides a complete implementation of Linux 2.6 with CGL 2 extensions.
The pre-emptive kernel features high-resolution timers, fast user-space mutexes, and a native Posix thread library.
CGL v2 extensions include an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), Hardware Platform Interface (HPI), heartbeat monitor, hot-plug, and Ethernet link aggregation failover.
Networking support includes IPv4/IPv6, SNMP management, and a comprehensive suite of open source networking protocols and applications including DHCP, FTP, HTTP, NFSv4, NTP, PPP, SCTP, Telnet, VLAN, SSL, SSH, and IPsec.
Wind River's Workbench provides a comprehensive development environment for KatanaQp-based applications.
Host development tools include a state-of-the-art Gnu GCC cross-toolchain, Linux cross-build system and root file system creation tools.
The Eclipse-based kernel and package configuration tools include an enhanced project and project build system, editor, source code analyser, debugger, target manager and on-chip-debug (JTAG) plug-in.
The KatanaQp features two 1.4GHz PowerPC MPC7447A processors, 64Kbyte of L1 instruction/data cache, 1Mbyte of L2 cache, 2Gbyte of SDRAM, 64Mbyte of Flash memory, and built-in support for symmetric multiprocessing.
The KatanaQp also features four PTMC mezzanine expansion sites, which provide industry standard PCI-X control and CTbus (Computer Telephony Bus) data interfaces to external modules.
The KatanaQp's high-speed PICMG 3.1-compliant ATCA fabric interface utilises a 24-port Ethernet switch and ten gigabit Ethernet channels to provide high-speed control and data plane connections.
The KatanaQp also features a redundant PICMG 3.0 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), which makes it easy for shelf management controllers to monitor, control and exchange management with the KatanaQp.
The KatanaQp, equipped with a single MPC7447A processor and a four-channel Gigabit Ethernet fabric interface, sells in OEM quantities starting at $3498.
Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment is available directly from Wind River Systems.
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