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ATCA® 10/40 GbE Dual Socket CPU Blade with Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 Processors

Main Features

– Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 Processors
– Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series
– Eight DDR3 VLP DIMMs with ECC support
– Up to four 40GBaseKR4 ports on Fabric interface to support Dual-Dual Star Topology
– Other fabric configurations supported via two Fabric Mezzanine sites (type I)
– Two 10/100/1000BASE-T front panel ports
– One Fabric Mezzanine Module (type II) for optional front IO or additional acceleration
– Fully managed, hot swappable RTM with 36 PCIe gen.3 lanes

Introduction
Advantech’s MIC-5333 is a 40G dual processor ATCA blade based on the Intel platform for communications infrastructure, formerly codenamed “Crystal Forest”. It enables the highest network and packet processing performance available in ATCA form factor with up to 16 cores and 32 threads of processing power, scalable offload based on Intel QuickAssist technology and support for up to four 40G fabric ports. Fast PCI Express gen. 3 technology running at up to 8Gbps per lane and best in class virtualization support combined with superior thermal design make it ideal for high performance applications and workload consolidation on Intel architecture.

Two QPI interfaces between the CPUs improve memory and I/O access throughput and latencies when one processor needs to access resources hosted by the other socket. With four DDR3 DIMMs per socket in a quad channel design running up to 1600MT/s, the MIC-5333 not only offers superior memory bandwidth over 3-channel designs, but can also support memory densities up 256GB using latest LR DIMM technology. It outperforms previous generation dual socket designs while keeping similar thermal characteristics with balanced airflow resistance

The DSPA-8901 is designed with 20 TI TMS320TCI6608 DSPs. With its twenty onboard TMS320TCI6608 DSPs at 1.0 GHz core frequency, the DSPA-8901 provides 160 cores of processing power to reach the higher levels of performance density needed to build the highest capacity wireless media gateways. The DSPA-8901 significantly reduces overall system power dissipation and system cost, and frees up valuable slots in gateway elements for additional subscriber capacity and throughput. The DSPA-8901 includes a high-performance Freescale QorIQ P2020 processor. The powerful Broadcom BCM56321 switch terminates the 10 gigabit Ethernet fabric connections and distributes traffic to the twenty DSPs. The DSPA-8901 offers unrivaled packet and media processing capabilities. For increasing demand in high end video conferencing, broadcasting and telepresence fields, the DSPA-8901 ATCA blade also offers unrivaled image processing performance for compression and decompression, image analysis, filtering and format conversion.

The ADLINK aTCA-9700 is a high performance AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) processor blade featuring dual 8 core Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2658/2680 V2, Intel® C604 PCH, eight-channel memory up to 128GB of DDR3 memory and 400W power supply subsystem. Versatile connectivity includes four 40GbE Fabric Interfaces, dual GbE Base Interfaces, dual front panel GbE egress ports, front panel dual COM and USB 2.0 ports and front panel VGA connector. An onboard SATA connector supports a disk on module (DOM) up to 128GB and the optional RTM (aTCA-R9700) supports six 10GbE SFP+ ports and one hot-swappable SAS bay providing additional network throughput and storage capacities.

The aTCA-9700’s thermal solution (including VRM heat sink) ensures stable operation under extreme operating environments and allows for compliance to the NEBS Level 3 standard (design only). The robust computing power and reliability of the aTCA-9700 meets the requirements of telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and network equipment providers (NEPs), allowing them to build the next-generation telecom networks and communication infrastructures.