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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: ATCA-9301
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 June 2007
Dual 16-core blade boosts ATCA
performance
Powerful ATCA blade incorporates many-core technology developed to provide a substantial increase in performance and functionality for high-bandwidth packet processing applications.
Motorola has announced a powerful AdvancedTCA (ATCA) blade, the ATCA-9301, which incorporates many-core technology developed to provide a substantial increase in performance and functionality for high-bandwidth packet processing applications It features two Cavium Networks Octeon 16-core processors with built-in hardware acceleration engines, designed to deliver 10Gbit/s packet forwarding throughput
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The ATCA-9301 blade's Cavium-based architecture permits packet processing tasks such as forwarding, packet inspection, and security functions to be done in parallel with control plane tasks at a lower total cost of ownership".
"This will help providers to spend more time developing the broadest set of applications on a single platform and less time dealing with the power and cooling challenges of conventional communications processors", says Jorge Magalhaes, Director of Marketing, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola.
"By universally servicing both data plane and control plane applications the ATCA-9301 provides a powerful engine to continue the success of Motorola's communications servers as one of the most widely adopted common platforms for network equipment".
"As the only Cavium-based ATCA blade supported as a standard part of our Carrier Grade Linux offering, Motorola's ATCA-9301 enables network equipment providers to source a complete solution from an industry leader".
"This offering delivers a high performance solution with a smoother path to application development that can be leveraged for multiple projects", says John Bruggeman, Chief Marketing Officer at Wind River.
"With the device software optimisation methodology behind our operating systems and tools platforms, Wind River can help application developers take full advantage of the Cavium architecture while also speeding time to market".
"We are pleased to be able to bring the benefits of many-core processing to ATCA in collaboration with a leader in ATCA technology", says Amer Haider, Director of Strategic Marketing and Ecosystem Development at Cavium Networks.
"Our next-generation Octeon CN5800 series of processors delivers state of the art packet processing and intelligent networking acceleration, with leading performance and performance per watt".
"Motorola's Octeon-based ATCA solution enables network equipment providers to accelerate the cost-effective deployment of enhanced IP and quad-play services".
The ATCA-9301 is available as stand-alone product or as part of Motorola's Centellis 4000 series of ATCA-based communications servers.
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