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News Release from: Kaparel Corp | Subject: PS4800 series backplanes
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2002
StarFabric backplanes offer migration
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The PS4800 series of backplanes support a StarFabric topology and offer high capacity CompactPCI, incorporating PICMG 2.17 architecture for developers of next generation telecomms networks.
The PS4800 series of backplanes from Kaparel support a StarFabric topology and offer high capacity CompactPCI, incorporating PICMG 2.17 architecture for developers of next generation telecomms networks The PIMG 2.17 StarFabric specification provides a seamless migration path from today's shared bus architecture to a robust switched interconnect, while retaining the existing hardware and software infrastructure
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tom Sutherland, General Manager of Kaparel commented, "Kaparel is on the PICMG 2.17 subcommittee, a designated StarFabric developer and a member of the StarFabric Trade Association Board of Directors and the PS4800 is the first of a range of off-the-shelf StarFabric backplanes based on the ratified specification".
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Features include: two eight-slot 64bit CompactPCI buses operating at 33MHz PCI or 66MHz PCI-X; selectable 3.3 or 5V I/O; PICMG 2.1 R2.0 compliant full hot swap; PICMG 2.5 R1.0 compliant H.110 CT bus on all node slots (PS4800 only); support for 8HP host boards at expense of one node slot; dual redundant StarFabric support (two fabrics and 14 basic nodes) as outlined in PICMG 2.17 R1.0; support for rear transition modules in all card slots; configurable power slot support for two 6U x 8HP, three 6U x 4HP, three 3U x 8HP, or four 3U x 4HP supplies; PICMG 2.9 R1.0 compliant SMBus support on all cards, power supplies, PEMs, fans, and alarm card; and support for I2C bridge function on alarm card to support more than 19 SMBus nodes.
Sutherland added: "The PS4800 will be followed by a family of off-the shelf backplanes for designers to develop StarFabric systems and can also provide custom StarFabric architecture solutions and integration services for specific customer applications".
As an integral part of providing off-the-shelf solutions Kaparel is also introducing the PS6090 StarFabric development platform that provides a PICMG 2.17 system for the development of next-generation network systems.
The system includes a PS4800 2.17 backplane in an 8U Rittal chassis configured with power supplies and the StarGen SFS2100 StarFabric Switch.
This platform enables OEMs and integrators to provide fast to market product based on the 2.17 architecture.
In addition to the PS4800 series, Kaparel will offer the StarBridge PS1160 devices and PS4810 backplanes that will provide a solution for bridging legacy CompactPCI components over StarFabric technology with the benefit of providing the application with HA/redundancy.
The solution provides for two seven-slot CompactPCI buses and two redundant controllers interconnecting in a dual star configuration.
This is accomplished by using: two SG2010s in leaf mode providing transition to the StarFabric; two SG2010s in root mode for full redundancy; segments tied together by two SG1010 switches; and remaining link for each switch allow for connection to an external fabric.
The architecture can also be extended to coexist with the PICM 2.17 specification by removing the SG1010s and connecting the StarFabric links directly into the 2.17 fabric.
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 7 August 2002).
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