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News Release from: SBS Technologies | Subject: BCT4-AMC1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2006
Carrier blade hosts up to four
AdvancedMC modules
At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SBS Technologies announced the expansion of its telecommunications product line with an AdvancedMC carrier blade for IBM Bladecentre systems.
At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SBS Technologies announced the expansion of its telecommunications product line with an AdvancedMC carrier blade for IBM Bladecentre systems The SBS BCT4-AMC1 carrier blade is capable of hosting up to four AdvancedMC modules to create application-specific blades from standard off-the-shelf SBS Telum modules and other third-party AdvancedMC cards
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The BCT4-AMC1 is ideal for system designers creating high-performance telecommunications solutions using AdvancedMC modules with specific networking features such as LAN/WAN and storage I/O capabilities.
SBS' AdvancedMC modules allow Bladecentre servers to be optimised for next-generation IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and FMC (fixed mobile convergence) IP-centric applications.
"It's great to see a strategic product such as the BCT4-AMC1 Carrier Blade come to market".
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"This carrier blade helps extend Bladecentre Server communications input/output and Telecom clocking capabilities".
"A Bladecentre server can now be used for building convergent IMS media processing and signalling gateway solutions".
"For example, our carrier blade enables the Bladecentre server to be configured to support next generation FMC applications such as IPTV and WiMax", said Rubin Dhillon, VP of Communications and Enterprise for SBS.
The BCT4-AMC1 offers two AdvancedMC bays accessible from the blade's front and two internal bays that are accessible from the side.
To help reduce equipment downtime, the BCT4-AMC1 supports hot swap capability for the front bay AdvancedMC modules and for the carrier blade itself.
For broad flexibility, the blade's front bays support extended AdvancedMCs and all bays support full height single- or double-width AdvancedMC modules.
"The SBS BCT4-AMC1 Carrier helps to extend IBM's reach into the convergent communications equipment market and expands our Bladecentre systems telecommunications solutions portfolio", said Jim Pertzborn, Vice President, Telecommunications Industry, IBM Systems and Technology Group.
"We are pleased to have industry leaders like SBS develop solutions for the rapidly-growing Bladecentre ecosystem as one of our leading partners for I/O internetworking".
Adding system robustness to the BCT4-AMC1, the blade's baseboard management controller communicates with the chassis management module by using two redundant RS485 interfaces to the blade's backplane.
To manage the PCI Express root complex a processor AdvancedMC single board computer, such as the Telum ASLP10 running a Carrier Grade Linux operating system, may be installed in bay 2.
In keeping with environmental policies, a RoHS version will be made available.
BCT4-AMC1 Bladecentre carrier blade pricing starts at US $1950 and is available now.
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