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AT8242 – ATCA Packet Processor Blade
Features Dual Cavium OCTEON II MIPS64 v2 CN6880 32-core packet processors

The AT8242 ATCA 64-Core Packet Processor offers high compute performance and service features for demanding 4G/LTE Evolved Packet Core Gateways, DPI, IPTV and content delivery platforms, Video Optimization, and GPON and EPON elements.

It offers a superior performance per Watt, power optimization, embedded virtualization, and a multitude of hardware acceleration features, including DPI acceleration with integrated HFA (RegEx Engine), TCP and ROHC, packet processing, compression, RAID 5/5 and de-dup, and multi-core scaling.

The Cavium OCTEON II processor combines over 85 L3-L7 application acceleration engines, virtualization features, 100Gbps of connectivity, and a new Real Time Power Optimizer that dynamically adjusts power depending upon the application level processing requirement.

Clients may consider using the AT8242 in combination with the Kontron OM9141-40G and OM9141-10G ATCA 14-slot platforms, featuring market-leading switch management software and up to four times the I/O switching bandwidth than the previous platform generation.

The Kontron AT8242 is designed for versatility and can be used in many core and edge network applications, particularly Packet Data Network Gateways (PGW), Serving Gateways (SGW) and Mobility Management Entity (MME) network elements found in the 4G LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

Growth in mobile data traffic networks will require more efficient and powerful deterministic processing of applications such as packet processing, deep packet content inspection (RegEx), application-aware switching and routing, parsing, IPv6/IPv4 forwarding, compression and decompression, classification, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) at 40Gbps wire-speed.

# Each processor supports 2x 20Gbps and 2x 10Gbps for a total of up to 60Gbps to a Ethernet Multilayer Switch that has a bandwidth capacity of up to 320Gbps and is connected to the Fabric Interface with a configurable interface that supports today’s 10 GbE and is designed to be 40 GbE-ready.

# Two available Rear Transition Module (RTM) units, each with different connector configurations.

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.