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The VT856 is a 1U μTCA chassis that provides two full size or two mid size slots with direct connection between the two slots on ports 4-7, 8-11 and 17-20. The ports 2-3 are routed directed between the two slots or to dual 2.5″ disk. The AMC.2 (ports 0 and 1) are routed to the on board GbE switch. The Air Filter and Fan Trays are hot swappable. The VT856 has option for AC or DC input. The power supply is removable for ease of service. The VT856 has Dual 2.5″ SATA/SAS disk that are removable from the rear. The dual disk could run as dual independent disk or as RAID zero/one. The Disk interfaces to the AMC slots via the PCIe Gen2 (Gne1) or direct connect via ports 2 and 3 of the AMC. The 1U chassis runs VadaTech proven second generation management software based on it’s VT002 product. The shelf manager implements IPMI management, FRU management, and shelf environment management for power, thermal, E-keying, etc. The VT002 can run as the Shelf/MCMC or MCMC. The input power is universal AC (110-240VAC) or from DC (-36V to -75V).

The VadaTech UTC004 is the most feature-rich MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) in the market. Its management software is based on VadaTech’s robust Carrier Manager and Shelf Manager which have been deployed for years with proven results. The MCMC manages the Power Modules, Cooling Units, and up to 12 AMCs within the chassis. It also manages the optional PCIe Gen3, SRIO Gen2, 40GbE/10GbE or Crossbar Fat Pipe switches as well as the standard 1GbE with 10GbE uplink Base Channel switch. The Ethernet switches are managed with an enterprise grade Layer 3 switching/routing stack and support Synchronous Ethernet.

The NAT-PM-AC600 is a high-density and high-efficiency power module (PM) for MicroTCA applications. Supplying 600W it is the market’s most efficient PM in its single-width full-size form-factor to run today’s complex communication systems made of latest processor generations and an increased number of Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC). The NAT-PM-AC600 provides electrical support for the expected workload of 12 AMCs, 2 Cooling Units (CUs) and 2 MicroTCA Carrier Hubs (MCH).

EMMC

The NAT-PM-AC60 includes a robust Enhanced Module Management Controller (EMMC) that interfaces the power control functionality via the Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) to the MCH.

Redundancy and Load Sharing

The NAT-PM-AC600 supports redundancy as well as load sharing modes in accordance with the MicroTCA specifications. In case of an input power supply failure the power for the onboard EMMC can be provided by SMP power from other PMs, so that the MCH is able to analyse root cause failure.

LED indicators

Besides the standard indicator LEDs for hot-swap, failure and heart-beat, at its front panel the NAT-PM-AC600 provides a unique light bar indicator, showing the PM’s total power load on a 0-100% scale in steps of 10% in real-time.

Applications

The NAT-PM-AC600 is a hot-swappable, fully redundant and highly efficient AC/DC power module. The module’s single-width design offers perfect thermal performance and therefore is ideally suited for all air-cooled MicroTCA solutions. The NAT-PM-AC600 is fully compatible with any standard compliant FRU being insertable into a MicroTCA chassis.
The NAT-PM-AC600 could easily serve applications like

– commercial and military (tele-) communications
– automated test equipment
– medical
– video
– security
– industrial machine control
– clustered computing architectures

For N.A.T., the NAT-PM-AC600 is a further and consequent milestone in developing a broad and harmonized MicroTCA eco system. The PM serves as a central power converting and conditioning control block for entire sub-racks. N.A.T. offers sophisticated and standard compliant MicroTCA systems, either as turn-key solutions or building blocks. This offer is complemented by a large variety of own MCHs, telecom line interface and network processor cards, PrAMCs, I/O cards, chassis, CUs and PMs.