AdvancedTCA-MicroTCA Summitvisits Santa Clara November 9th

AdvancedTCA-MicroTCA Summitvisits Santa Clara November 9th

Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) is taking hold in a number of application areas and in 2010 is projected to hit close to $2.6 billion in revenue. The ATCA summit November 9 to 11 (www.advancedtcasummit.com) will have pretty much all the companies that offer products in this area all under one roof. From technical forums to chat sessions, you’ll get all the information you need in one place. Here are just a few of the products you will be able to take a look at.

CommAgility’s (www.commagility.com) AMC-V6F AMC board supports SRIO 2.0 for double the bandwidth on the board and on the MicroTCA backplane, with the fat pipes now at 20 Gbits/s. It uses a large Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA supported by an IDT SRIO 2.0 switch, DDR3 SDRAM, Ethernet, and front-panel I/O options including SRIO and CPRI.

EBM-PAPST (www.ebmpapst.us) has a new S-Force tubeaxial fan that is 27% thinner, produces 30% higher airflow, and has a 65% higher cooling density than comparable 200-mm fans available.

Elma Bustronic (www.bustronic.com) has released backplanes that have been through full signal integrity analysis for 40G ATCA applications. Test report data are available.

Emerson Network Power (www.emerson.com/embeddedcomputing) will demo the dual-processor ATCA-7365 server blade that offers a significant performance improvement over competing products thanks to 12 DIMM sockets that allow up to 96 Gbytes of DDR3 memory to support the two 6-core Intel Xeon 5638 processors. Emerson will also show the ATCA-F140 40G AdvancedTCA switch blade that provides 1G, 10G, and 40G fabric switching interfaces for backward compatibility while meeting the needs of the most data-intensive applications, including 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.

The ATCA-F140 AdvancedTCA switch blade provides 1G, 10G, and 40G fabric switching.

GoAhead Software (www.goahead.com) has more than more than 65,000 deployments of solutions for equipment manufacturers that know that scarce development resources should be focused on applications not infrastructure. Their software platform includes high-availability middleware to ensure 99.999% availability of applications and management infrastructure.

The GE Intelligent Platforms (www.ge-ip.com) A10200 ATCA single-board computer provides a greater ROI through higher performance, large memory capacity, and enhanced performance – without increasing the footprint of previous-generation cards. Featuring dual Intel Xeon 5600/5500 quad- or six-core processors and up to 64 Gbytes of DDR3, the card is designed for demanding telecommunications networks.

The Mercury Computer Systems (www.mc.com) Ensemble 2000 Series 6-Slot MicroTCA chassis is a building block for small-form-factor, low-cost, high-performance standard solutions. This 1U chassis supports six AMC bays with a wide range of fabric and clock options. The chassis provides a cost-effective, easy-to-use, and flexible entry-level platform that scales into multichassis system configurations.

N.A.T. (www.nateurope.com) doubles E1/T1/J1 port density in ATCA and microTCA systems using the NAMC-8569-xE1/T1/J1, available as single compact-, single mid- or single full-size module. The full-size version increases the line interface count up to 16 E1/T1/J1.

The OpenSAF (www.opensaf.org) 4.0 high availability middleware platform implements all major functions of the Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification and includes important enhancements to improve scalability as well as hardware and software management — available as a free download. The software is designed to be the core component of a highly available software stack that can be used in mission-critical applications in many industries.

Pigeon Point Systems (www.pigeonpoint.com) will show its expanded portfolio of SmartFusion-based xTCA management controller solutions. The devices combine with new solutions for AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMC cards.

RadiSys (www.RadiSys.com) will show the Promentum C2 ATCA server, the industry’s first pre-integrated, portable platform designed to provide the performance/features required for rugged, ground mobile applications in mil/aero. An out-of-the-box solution, it provides computing, switching and storage in one easy-to-manage platform that features a more than 30% weight decrease and lower power consumption than current systems.

A portable rugged ATCA platform from RadiSys.

The Southco (www.southco.com) flush-style AdvancedMC module handle features a prominent blue LED indicator and adds styling and ergonomic performance to the hot-swap protection mandated by the PICMG standards. The insertion/extraction mechanism locks modules into place and minimizes protrusion on the module faceplate.

Southco AMC module handle is flush and features a blue LED.

The VadaTech (www.VadaTech.com) VT855 is a 1U μTCA chassis that provides two mid-height AMC slots or two double-width mid-height with direct connection between the two slots on ports 4-7, 8-11 and 17-20. Ports 2 and-3 are routed directed between the two slots or to dual 2.5-in. disk and the AMC.2 (ports 0 and 1) are routed to the GbE switch.

Wind River (www.windriver.com) will be demonstrating its Network Acceleration Platform, which provides a fast packet acceleration solution, leveraging multiple cores for the control and data planes to deliver multiple Gbit Ethernet wire-speed performance for telecom infrastructure. The platform can easily scale to meet the growing demands of traffic on 3G, 4G, and wireline networks.

Xtech (www.xtech-outside.com) will introduce a family of AMC front panels with retention flanges for microTCA and ruggedized carriers. The flanges’ robust design and construction ensures that the AMCs will be secure in both high-shock and high-vibration applications.

Jim Harrison

For more on AdvancedTCA Summit November 9 to 11 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center, visit www.advancedtcasummit.com. Pre-conference events are scheduled for Tuesday the 9th. Wednesday the summit is open from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., and Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.