AdvancedTCA board offers heavyweight processing

The AT8020 AdvancedTCA processor board is designed to meet the computing-intensive needs of major telecomms equipment manufacturers.

Kontron unveiled its AT8020 AdvancedTCA processor board at this year's Globalcomm.

Designed to meet the needs of major telecomms equipment manufacturers (TEMs), the AT8020 features two dual-core Intel Xeon processors LV 2.0GHz and support for two AdvancedMC modules.

The result is an open modular processing platform that will increase the number of deployments of AdvancedTCA solutions at the heart of every computer-intensive mobile-IMS network element - from the transcoding of live multimedia mobile content on a multimedia resource function processor (MRFP) to concurrent processing of subscriber data on home subscriber locator (HLR) systems.

The Kontron AT8020 AdvancedTCA processor board provides exceptional system performance powered by two dual-core Intel Xeon processors LV 2.0GHz featuring multicore technology and 2Mbyte L2 cache.

This computing-intensive platform is extremely appealing for a wide range of mobile network applications that require high processing power such transcoding of mobile multimedia content and concurrent processing for HLR systems.

Also unique to this board design is its two mid-size AdvancedMC sites for customisation, up to 16Gbyte of DDR 400 registered ECC SDRAM, and a flexible mezzanine switch fabric featuring a crossswitch for SAS and Ethernet.

The AT8020 is designed with a network timing subsystem for clocking support to integrate with a wide assortment of telecomms I/O AMC modules such as T1/E1, OC-3 and others.

The Kontron AT8020 is built with the Intel E7520 chipset with 667MHz FSB and support for PCI Express.

Included are two rear 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet (Base Interface), dual-dual 1000Base-BX Ethernet (Option 3), one serial RJ45, one USB 2.0 (front) and one 10/100BaseT, and SAS via RTM.

The dual-core Intel Xeon processor is targeted for ultradense environments that require lower power consumption and is optimised to deliver a highly energy efficient performance.

This makes the Kontron AT8020 an ideal and scalable platform to deliver more performance per watt and remain within the AdvancedTCA power envelope of 200W.

"Several leading vendors of IMS-based network applications have already shown tremendous interest in the launch of the AT8020", said Norbert Hauser, Vice President Marketing Kontron.

"Its early success is clearly driven by the integration of Intel dual-core technology onto the AdvancedTCA open hardware standard".

"As a premier member of the Intel Communications Alliance, Kontron is pleased to work with Intel to provide its dual-core, multiprocessor Kontron products based on the Intel architecture".

"Dual core technology in a low-power design will bring a new level of performance density to the communications market segment", said Ton Steenman, General Manager, Infrastructure Processor Division, Intel.

"By utilising the Intel Xeon processors LV 2.0GHz, the latest AdvancedTCA product introduction from Kontron will benefit TEMs and OEMs with expanded I/O and processing performance at an attractive thermal envelope".

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