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News Release from: RadiSys Corporation | Subject: SYS50
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 September 2003
cPCI system speeds high availability
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The SYS50 is a fully integrated CompactPCI PICMG 2.16 platform that is ideal for high-availability applications.
Today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose and the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Radisys will launch the Radisys SYS50, the industry's first fully integrated, CompactPCI PICMG 2.16 platform The SYS50 is ideal for high-availability applications such as signalling, media gateways, VoIP gateways, switching and routing functions, billing servers and storage servers including HLR and VLR
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Radisys Corp has a 1U platform for OEMs who are developing a variety of complex appliances on a single common server platform.
This means customers no longer need to spend their precious development time performing validation testing of individual building blocks from multiple vendors, which can be time consuming.
Instead, the Radisys SYS50 provides customers a proven system platform that can be used as the foundation for their production configuration, shaving months off their development time.
"Radisys has emerged as a leading provider of integrated, application ready platforms", said Scott Grout, president and CEO.
"We have taken outsourcing of modular functionality to the next level by offering complete, integrated embedded systems for use in next generation commercial, enterprise and service provider systems".
OEMs designing CPU and switch intensive applications used in data centres and central offices are pressured to provide fault-tolerant, high-density systems that are scalable.
Driving this need is the enormous compute power required to cost effectively support complex applications in the control, services and management plane.
The need for flexible server systems continues to escalate as these applications proliferate.
Blade servers are cost effective and scalable by design and therefore offer a compelling value proposition.
As a result, OEMs are beginning to rely on modular solutions that can maximise budgets and resources, allowing them to develop better products, faster.
"Validation and testing an integrated solution can take many months", said Fred Yentz, Vice President for Radisys.
"Providing customers with a validated and fully integrated platform helps them reduce development cycles and ultimately improve their time to market and product realisation costs".
The Radisys SYS50 offers multiple modular slots per shelf that can be configured with any combination of CPU cards, I/O cards and/or media modules.
This flexibility allows the SYS50 to service a broad range of media and/or CPU intensive applications.
Radisys engineered the SYS50 with 5 nines (99.999%) high availability ensuring customers "always on" operation.
The Radisys always on architecture means customers achieve carrier grade reliability at data centre costs and they can also easily port applications across platforms ensuring full compliance with SAF and HPI.
The SYS50 also provides legacy cPCI support, including H.110, allowing integrators to configure legacy I/O boards with CPU boards that support the standard CompactPCI interface and PICMG 2.16 interconnection.
Two predefined configurations are available for customer development: The CP50-DC-LS comes complete with a CP50 chassis that includes two 300W DC power supplies, two EPC-3100 Fast Ethernet switches with integrated platform management, two EPC-3311 CPU blades, a MM50 media module with one 20Gbyte IDE hard disk drive, a CD-ROM drive and Monta Vista Carrier Grade Linux 3.0 pre-installed.
The CP50-DC-LSM has the same basic configuration as the CP50-DC-LS and includes a DM50 media module with two 18Gbyte SCSI hard disk drives.
An AC power supply is also available as an option.
In addition to providing PICMG 2.16 compliance, high availability and legacy CompactPCI support, the Radisys SYS50 offers high density in a 9U package.
Up to 52 CompactPCI slots can be configured with CPU cards, I/O cards or media modules when configured in a typical 40U high frame.
The SYS50 also features shelf management, which has been integrated into the switch, meaning there is no need for a separate chassis management module (CMM).
The Radisys SYS50 also supports PCI and switched blades easing the migration path from PCI to switched backplanes.
Additionally, the SYS50 supports H.110 and can be configured as a compute or storage server.
The Radisys SYS50 is available immediately and priced at US $24,245 for the CP50-DC-LM configuration.
OEM quantities and pricing are available.
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