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Networking Hardware
News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2006
Blades are made ready for new Sun
servers
Artesyn Communication Products has announced support for Sun Microsystems' new AdvancedTCA-based Netra family of servers.
Artesyn Communication Products has announced support for Sun Microsystems' new AdvancedTCA-based Netra family of servers Artesyn is currently working with Sun to integrate and certify its KatanaQp ATCA blade with this new family
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Artesyn is also working with Sun to integrate and certify a new ATCA blade that Artesyn will announce later this month.
"Artesyn has been a pioneer in the development and early deployment of open architecture standards like ATCA, AdvancedMC, and MicroTCA", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Product Management at Artesyn Technologies.
"We are pleased to support Sun's launch of its new Netra ATCA family, and look forward to working with Sun to integrate our ATCA-based control, signalling, protocol/packet, and media processing blades within the Netra framework".
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Flexible interfacing for telecomms blade
The Katana 750v CompactPCI packet switching backplane telecomms blade is based on IBM's PowerPC 750FX processor.
Mezzanine card boosts telecomms processing power
A new PowerPC-based PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) adds processing power to telecomms infrastructure applications.
The KatanaQp is a high-performance ATCA blade for telecomms infrastructure applications like WAN access, SS7/Sigtran signalling, media gateways, traffic processing, wireless basestations and softswitches.
The KatanaQp features a pair of PowerPC MPC7448 processors, four PTMC expansion sites, redundant IPMI-based system management interfaces, and a PICMG 3.1-compliant ATCA high-speed fabric interface with four redundant (eight total) gigabit Ethernet channels.
"With the launch of the Netra ATCA server family, Sun brings proven carrier-grade reliability, performance and choice to the most demanding applications in communications infrastructure".
"Sun is pleased to include Artesyn as one of its ATCA ecosystem partners", said Mark Butler, Director of Marketing for Netra and Networking products in Sun's Scalable Systems Group.
"Sun's ATCA partner ecosystem offers a wide choice of best-of-breed partner technologies in multiple vertical solutions".
Artesyn and its partners offer a family of PTMC and AdvancedMC modules that make it easy to add application-specific functions as such as WAN access, packet/protocol processing, signalling, and media processing to Artesyn's ATCA blades.
Artesyn's PTMC WAN interface modules, for example, provide up to eight E1/T1 ports, which enable the KatanaQp to be used as a signalling blade, signalling gateway, or softswitch.
Similarly, Artesyn's PowerPC-based AdvancedMC and PMC modules can be used to add dedicated functions like SONET mapping, packet traffic and protocol processing.
Artesyn is also working with partner Surf Communications to integrate Surf's DSP-based PTMC and AdvancedMC cards, which will enable Artesyn blades to offer triple play media processing for applications such as media gateways.
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