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The Intel® NetStructure™ MPCBL0040 AdvancedTCA™ board
Covergence has always leveraged standard hardware platforms to reduce costs and increase our customer’s ability to quickly deploy new services. The move to ATCA was a natural extension of our existing business strategy. The Covergence CXC-ATCA solution delivers the full implementation of the award-winning CXC Session Manager on a blade (or blades) within an ATCA chassis.
At this time the Covergence CXC has been certified on the Intel® NetStructure™ MPCBL0040 AdvancedTCA™ board. Other blades are in the pipeline for qualification in 2007.
The MPCBL0040 single board computer is the latest in a series of high compute boards introducing powerful multi-core architecture compliant with the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) specification. The MCPBL0040 features two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® LV 2.0 GHz processors, providing a total of four processor cores per board. This design achieves significant performance improvements in multithreaded applications such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), IPTV, and Wireless Control Plane applications.
The MPCBL0040 is also designed to interoperate with AdvancedTCA products from Intel and with third-party building blocks meeting the PICMG 3.0 specification.
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| Features |
Benefits |
| Processor: Two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® LV 2.0 GHz processors featuring multi-core technology |
Performance boost from processor technology enables superior subsystem scalability and greater density (more subscribers/transactions per board) to allow more network elements in an AdvancedTCA chassis, which improves system scalability |
| Chipset: Intel® E7520 provides direct connection between the MCH and PCI Express* components and AdvancedMC* modules |
Supports outstanding I/O throughput by delivering higher bandwidth with PCI Express for improved platform performance |
| Interface: Dual Star Gigabit Ethernet base and fabric interfaces (compliant with PICMG 3.0 and 3.1, option 2) |
Backplane supports high I/O requirements and access to high-speed storage systems |
| Mezzanine Site: One AdvancedMC |
Allows module hot add and hot swap, higher throughput bandwidth than PMCs, and easy expandability |
| Management: Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) |
Enables carrier-grade system reliability and manageability such as controlling board power and monitoring onboard sensors using dual Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) connections |
| High Availability Features: Redundant BIOS images, IPMC firmware images, and dual 128 MB flash drives |
Redundancy on key items enables high reliability for field deployments |
| Option for enterprise-class hard drive, which allows Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives with MTBF over 1 million hours |
Provides high reliability, low latency data access for boot up and other local storage |
| Multiple storage options (local hard drive, front SAS ports, redundant 128 MB flash drives, and Rear Transition Module hard drive) |
Supporting multiple onboard and external storage options allows configuration flexibility | |
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