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Advantech’s Netarium series of ATCA reference systems are specifically targeted to help network equipment providers reach superior levels of performance over traditional rackmount servers or appliances and extend their product range at the high end. The series represents a new generation of systems which offer higher performance, greater scalability and extreme flexibility by using the latest 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40G) backplanes, switches and application blades.

Advantech optimizes the systems to achieve the highest possible density at the rack level, enabling a maximum number of processor cores, network ports and switching capacity. Each system is tailored for customers to rapidly deploy in data communication markets for applications which require faster and deeper packet processing such as policy and charging enforcement, network security, real-time traffic monitoring, load balancing, subscriber analytics and content optimization among others.

As ATCA was designed to meet the carrier-grade constraints of the telecom industry, the systems integrate the chassis, cooling, power distribution and shelf management into an off-the-shelf platform solution capable of superior 5 NINES availability and reliability.

Netarium-2v2, which supports Advantech’s SMM-5060 Advanced Shelf Management Module, providing IPMI2.0 and ATCA compliant shelf management, is the ultimate in entry level flexibility. This 2-slot platform allows OEMs to redeploy common platform hardware which scales when needed.

Based on the MIC-5333 it packs more processing power than previous generation 6-slot systems. With an increase in miniaturization and performance at the blade level it is accompanied by a new concept at the mezzanine level to bring more I/O and acceleration closer to the processing cores. With four FMM sites on each ATCA blade and RTM, the MIC-5333 integrated into the Netarium-2 Reference System offers the broadest flexibility in entry level system performance on ATCA.

Many different payloads can be integrated into Advantech Netarium systems and configured to address diverse industry applications. For more details on integrating a specific configuration please contact [email protected]

The VT835 offers unprecedented performance density with 1 ATCA node slot and 8 mid-size, single width AMCs in 3U height. Typically, only 4 mid-sized AMCs can fit on an ATCA carrier, with VadaTech’s unique design, 8 AMCs can fit in a single chassis to provide AMC’s versatility of processors, FPGAs, storage, graphics, I/O options and much more. Double-width AMCs can also be implemented.

The two slots support modules up to 400W, allowing the use of a high power host processor and AMC. Additional I/O is available through two standard ATCA RTMs. The VT835 has full redundancy support for all FRUs, including dual Shelf Managers.

The VT830 features dual Switching Shelf Managers (SSMs) that combines VadaTech’s 3rd Generation Shelf Manager with integrated GbE/10GbE/40GbE switches on the same module. This allows two slots in the system to be used as Nodes (Payload Boards) versus having the slots otherwise be allocated as dedicated switching Hubs in the system.

The 6U 6-slot SlotSaver ATCA Chassis conforms to the latest PICMG 3.0 specification in 10G or 40G configurations. The Shelf has a 19″ rackmount form factor compliant to EIA-310. The VT830 Shelf offers 10GbE/1GbE Layer 2 managed switches or 40GbE/10GbE/1GbE Layer 3 managed switches. The Switching Shelf Managers have RTM capabilities for rear I/O.

The AC input of the Shelf provides N+1 redundancy, with options for DC or AC/DC combined configurations. The 6U ATCA Shelf offers exceptional thermal management with each slot dissipating up to 375W in a redundant push/pull configuration. The fan trays and air filters are all separately removable.