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May 28, 2008
Emerson Network Power Extensively Enhances Its MicroTCA Portfolio
By May 28, 2008 – Emerson Network Power (www.EmersonNetworkPower.com/EmbeddedComputing), a business of Emerson and a major player in enabling what they call Business-Critical Continuity, today announced a broadening of the company’s MicroTCA
portfolio through increased software support, new and enhanced products and a wider range of operating system choices.
Somewhere in Yours Truly’s office rack is an old Dialogic (News - Alert) Fault Resilient Telco Platform (DTP/FR) 19-inch rack mount, a PC platform tough enough for voice processing applications running in the Central Office having a passive-backplane (ISA or ISA / PCI slots) with built-in alarm abilities that meet the old Bellcore LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements (LSSGR) for fault detection and alarm notification.
Years later, there appeared the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification, which defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system which system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. IPMI 1.5 and later can send out alerts via a direct serial connection, a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Serial-Over-LAN (SOL) connection to a remote client. System administrators can use IPMI messaging to query platform status, review hardware logs, or to issue other requests from a remote console through the same connections. The standard also defines an alerting mechanism so that a system is able to send a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) platform event trap (PET).
And now, the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power has introduced SpiderWareM3 platform management software for remote management, monitoring and maintenance of IPMI-compatible MicroTCA (News - Alert) form factor computing platforms. The software’s capability to recognize and manage Advanced Mezzanine cards (AMCs) from various suppliers facilitates device interoperability within the ecosystem.
In its continuing effort to offer low-cost MicroTCA solutions for a broad range of applications and industries, Emerson Network Power has added the AMC-9210 to its product line. Based on the Cavium OCTEONTM Plus high-performance, multi-core processor architecture, the AMC-9210 is suitable for wire-speed packet processing solutions.
Along with the AMC-9210, the following existing AMCs support four processor families with increased price/performance over first generation products. These AMCs, based on Intel (News - Alert)®, Cavium and Freescale silicon, provide a choice of deeply-embedded cores, dual cores, and multi-cores:
PrAMC-7210 – Designed for applications that require dual-core Intel Architecture performance, scalability, manageability and low cost, it features a 1.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with support for memory sizes up to 4 GB.
PrAMC-6210 – Uses a Freescale Semiconductor MPC8641D microprocessor based on Power Architecture technology to provide modular, upgradeable, computing power for telecom applications such as protocol processing, packet processing, data management and I/O management.
KSI-8560 – Serves as a general purpose processor AMC or a high-density WAN I/O AMC and provides NEPs with a cost-effective and powerful modular processing element with its on-board Freescale PowerQUICCTM III MPC8560 processor.
Moreover, Emerson Network Power is adding three new storage AMCs to satisfy applications having greater storage density and rugged applications:
• AMC-S302 – 80GB SATA Drive
• AMC-S602 – Dual 80GB Heavy Duty SATA Drives (doubles the slot density)
• AMC-S502 – 32GB Solid State SATA drive
Emerson’s MicroTCA portfolio enhancement also includes support for the latest Linux operating systems from Wind River (News - Alert) (Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition 2.0) and MontaVista (CGE 5.0).
Richard Grigonis is Executive Editor of TMC’s (News - Alert) IP Communications Group. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
portfolio through increased software support, new and enhanced products and a wider range of operating system choices.
Somewhere in Yours Truly’s office rack is an old Dialogic (News - Alert) Fault Resilient Telco Platform (DTP/FR) 19-inch rack mount, a PC platform tough enough for voice processing applications running in the Central Office
having a passive-backplane (ISA or ISA / PCI slots) with built-in alarm abilities that meet the old Bellcore LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements (LSSGR) for fault detection and alarm notification.Years later, there appeared the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification, which defines a set of common interfaces to a computer system which system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. IPMI 1.5 and later can send out alerts via a direct serial connection, a Local Area Network (LAN
) or a Serial-Over-LAN (SOL) connection to a remote client. System administrators can use IPMI messaging to query platform status, review hardware logs, or to issue other requests from a remote console through the same connections. The standard also defines an alerting mechanism so that a system is able to send a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) platform event trap (PET).And now, the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power has introduced SpiderWareM3 platform management software for remote management, monitoring and maintenance of IPMI-compatible MicroTCA (News - Alert) form factor computing platforms. The software’s capability to recognize and manage Advanced Mezzanine cards (AMCs) from various suppliers facilitates device interoperability within the ecosystem.
In its continuing effort to offer low-cost MicroTCA solutions for a broad range of applications and industries, Emerson Network Power has added the AMC-9210 to its product line. Based on the Cavium OCTEONTM Plus high-performance, multi-core processor architecture, the AMC-9210 is suitable for wire-speed packet processing solutions.
Along with the AMC-9210, the following existing AMCs support four processor families with increased price/performance over first generation products. These AMCs, based on Intel (News - Alert)®, Cavium and Freescale silicon, provide a choice of deeply-embedded cores, dual cores, and multi-cores:
PrAMC-7210 – Designed for applications that require dual-core Intel Architecture performance, scalability, manageability and low cost, it features a 1.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with support for memory sizes up to 4 GB.
PrAMC-6210 – Uses a Freescale Semiconductor MPC8641D microprocessor based on Power Architecture technology to provide modular, upgradeable, computing power for telecom applications such as protocol processing, packet processing, data management and I/O management.
KSI-8560 – Serves as a general purpose processor AMC or a high-density WAN
I/O AMC and provides NEPs with a cost-effective and powerful modular processing element with its on-board Freescale PowerQUICCTM III MPC8560 processor.Moreover, Emerson Network Power is adding three new storage AMCs to satisfy applications having greater storage density and rugged applications:
• AMC-S302 – 80GB SATA Drive
• AMC-S602 – Dual 80GB Heavy Duty SATA Drives (doubles the slot density)
• AMC-S502 – 32GB Solid State SATA drive
Emerson’s MicroTCA portfolio enhancement also includes support for the latest Linux operating systems from Wind River (News - Alert) (Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition 2.0) and MontaVista (CGE 5.0).
Richard Grigonis is Executive Editor of TMC’s (News - Alert) IP
Communications Group. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
