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News Release from: RadiSys Corporation | Subject: Promentum ATCA-72xx and AMC-7211
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 October 2006
Gigabit interfaces employ Octeon
processors
RadiSys has expanded its market leading ATCA and AMC family by introducing two new products based on the latest Octeon processors from Cavium Networks.
RadiSys has expanded its market leading ATCA and AMC family by introducing two new products based on the latest Octeon processors from Cavium Networks The new ATCA and AMC solutions from RadiSys provide high density Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with sophisticated dataplane hardware acceleration, and help equipment manufacturers reduce research and development costs while accelerating the introduction of high performance, content aware products such as radio network controllers (RNC), session border controllers, media gateways, edge routers and security gateways
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Promentum ATCA-72xx is a high performance, modular Gigabit Ethernet line card for ATCA systems offering 4, 8, 12 or 16Gbit/s Ethernet interfaces.
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Equipped with up to four Cavium Octeon Plus CN58XX processors, the ATCA-72xx provides the wire speed interfaces and hardware accelerated data processing critical for today's dense network elements.
The IPMI compliant, hot swappable ATCA card is available with optional software from RadiSys for hardware accelerated IPV4/IPV6 forwarding, security (IP Sec, SSL, SRTP), IP filtering and traffic management.
Future software upgrades will add support for load balancing, MPLS and GTP-U hardware acceleration.
The RadiSys AMC-7211 provides power efficient, packet and security processing for customers requiring AMC modules for their ATCA and uTCA platforms.
Equipped with four Ethernet interfaces, each AMC-7211 delivers up to 4Gbit/s of Layer 2 to 7 wire speed content aware processing in a compact single width, mid-size AMC.
When installed in AMC slots provided by ATCA compute blades such as the RadiSys ATCA-4300, the AMC-7211 can be used to offload host CPUs from line and packet processing tasks.
"Cavium Networks new Octeon Plus processors deliver the highest performance and best performance/watt offering for networking and wireless applications", said Syed Ali, CEO and President, Cavium Networks.
"We are pleased to work with Radisys using Octeon Plus to enable a new breed of ATCA and AMC solutions which will help equipment manufacturers implement rich, secure, quad-play services for enterprise and service provider networks".
The RadiSys ATCA-7200 and AMC-7211 are available as stand-alone products or as part of the RadiSys Promentum ATCA-6010 application ready platform.
The Promentum ATCA-6010 platform is a fully integrated and validated managed platform designed to address high speed I/O and bandwidth intensive traffic-bearing applications in a flexible and reliable architecture complete with comprehensive system management.
Embedded Promentum building blocks are implemented in a modular fashion with seamless interoperability through a suite of Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs).
RadiSys offers a wide range of AMCs for general purpose and network processing, input/output, and storage requirements.
"Deep packet inspection and complex security processing are becoming fundamental for many network elements in fixed, mobile and enterprise networks", said Scott Grout, CEO, RadiSys.
"These latest offerings from RadiSys build on our leadership position in 10Gigabit ATCA platforms and allow equipment manufacturers to quickly and easily address the most demanding applications".
"With these new products our customers are better able to create products for service providers offering secure connectivity and increased subscriber capacity with a smaller footprint and power envelope than previously possible".
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