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News Release from: Pigeon Point Systems | Subject: Shelf Manager release 2.3.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2006
Shelf management extends to AdvancedTCA
Pigeon Point Systems has released a new version of its Shelf Manager, supporting the ATCA specification revision that was just adopted by PICMG in May 2006.
Pigeon Point Systems has released a new version of its Shelf Manager, supporting the ATCA specification revision that was just adopted by PICMG in May 2006 As with every previous major revision of the AdvancedTCA specification since its original adoption in 2002, Pigeon Point is, once again, the first in the industry to deliver a compliant Shelf Manager
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Among the refinements in the specification revision - formally known as PICMG ECN 3.0-2.0-002 or ECN-002 for short - are advanced facilities for managing the cooling of an ATCA shelf.
These ECN-driven enhancements are combined with Pigeon Point innovations to implement market-leading cooling management capabilities in the new release, which has already been successfully tested in the labs of major telecomms equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and their suppliers.
The new release 2.3.0 will be available to upgrade any of the thousands of Pigeon Point shelf management mezzanines (especially the second generation Pigeon Point ShMM-500) that manage the majority of the world's AdvancedTCA shelves.
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The cooling-related extensions in ECN-002 support a built-in definition within an ATCA shelf of how the fans it implements relate to the boards it can house.
This definition enables a shelf-independent shelf manager, such as the widely used Pigeon Point Shelf Manager, to automatically boost cooling from the particular fan or fans that affect a particular board that is too hot.
This is just one of a wide range of specification improvements in ECN-002.
Along with many other enhancements in addition to ECN-002 compliance, the new Shelf Manager supports a new cooling management algorithm that automatically finds the range of stable fan levels that minimises fan speeds and the corresponding fan noise, while respecting the temperature thresholds defined by installed boards.
Algorithms like this are crucial to meeting stringent carrier requirements on acoustic noise for a fully loaded shelf, while preserving the MTBF ratings of the boards it houses.
"We and our major TEM customers have intensively tested the new release of the Pigeon Point Shelf Manager and actively collaborated on the cooling management improvements it includes", said Laurie Burger, Director of Business Development, Pentair Technical Products.
"Our partnership with Pigeon Point continues to be a vital contributor to the market-leading success of our Schroff and Electronic Solutions AdvancedTCA shelf offerings".
"Once again, with this new ECN-002 and the release of an ECN-compliant Pigeon Point Shelf Manager just a couple of months after PICMG adoption, Pigeon Point Systems is demonstrating their strong commitment to the maturation of hardware platform management for AdvancedTCA", stated Jeff Munch, CTO of Adlink Technology and Chair of the PICMG AdvancedTCA subcommittee.
"Pigeon Point's involvement in the management aspects of this specification revision was intensive and crucial".
"It is no surprise that their products demonstrate this same commitment to compliance and interoperability".
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