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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: MicroTCA development platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2006
MicroTCA platform on show in San Jose
Artesyn Communication Products will demonstrate its new MicroTCA development platform at the VON show in San Jose in conjunction with its partner Surf Communication Solutions.
Artesyn Communication Products will demonstrate its new MicroTCA development platform at the VON show in San Jose from 14th to 17th March 2006 in conjunction with its partner Surf Communication Solutions Artesyn and Surf are collaborating to use the new system as an evaluation and development platform for MicroTCA-based media servers and media gateways
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Surf's extensive DSP hardware, software and media processing expertise makes them an excellent partner for creating open architecture and triple play media processing solutions", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Product Management at Artesyn.
"We look forward to working with them to develop compact, low-cost media server and gateway solutions based on our MicroTCA systems and their AdvancedMC modules".
"Artesyn has been a pioneer in developing the MicroTCA standard and making it a reality", said Amir Zmora, Vice President of Marketing at Surf.
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"Artesyn's new MicroTCA system, when equipped with our media processing modules, will provide an excellent platform for evaluating and developing media processing and media gateway applications with tight cost and size constraints".
Artesyn's MicroTCA development platform uses a 12-slot MicroTCA chassis equipped with a MicroTCA carrier hub (MCH) module, power supply, fat pipe switch module, application/protocol processing, and platform management software, all developed by Artesyn.
Artesyn's unique design allows for independent control and data plane operation.
The MCH provides IPMI management, gigabit Ethernet switching for the control plane, and optional telecomms clock distribution.
The fat pipe switch provides Serial RapidIO data plane switching for up to 12 AdvancedMC modules.
Artesyn's KosaiPM modules provide control, protocol and application processing for the system.
The KosaiPM features a 1.4GHz Pentium M processor, 1Mbyte of Level 2 cache, 2Gbyte of SDRAM, 128Mbyte of Flash, and two gigabit Ethernet channels, which facilitate communications between the KosaiPM and the MicroTCA backplane.
The KosaiPM also features a USB interface, front panel 10/100BaseT management interface, an I2C-based IPMI system management interface, and an optional storage interface, which provides access to hard drives residing in other MicroTCA slots.
The system's IPMI-based (Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface) SpiderWare platform management software features an intuitive GUI that makes it easy to monitor key physical system health characteristics such as voltages, fan speeds, temperatures, and power supply status.
Using this information, which each AdvancedMC module conveys via its I2C-based Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface, the platform management software and network operators can monitor system operation, take corrective action, optimise cooling and system power allocation, perform remote shutdown/restart (typically on a slot by slot basis), and log events.
SpiderWare platform management software is fully compliant with the Service Availability Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) specification.
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