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Emerson Network Power and Hybricon demonstrating ruggedization of MicroTCA

  • 11-slot MicroTCA™ shelf provides scalable, embedded communications computing system
  • 17.6 in. (466 mm) wide, 8.75 in.(222 mm) high, 9 in. (226 mm) deep shelf with front-only I/O and 19 in., 23 in. and 600 mm rackmount options
  • 600watt AC or -48 VDC power entry modules support full complement of AdvancedMCs
  • Redundant power entry modules, redundant fans, hot-swappable AdvancedMCs, and an easy-to-service design
  • MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) combines shelf management, clocking, and fabric switching in a single module, maximizing payload capacity
  • Gigabit Ethernet backplane fabric with optional PCI Express secondary fabric
  • MontaVista CGL or Wind River PNE Linux operating system
  • Basic blade services compliant to the Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) hardware platform interface (HPI) layer
  • Configurable with broad portfolio of AdvancedMCs from Emerson Network Power and ecosystem partners
  • Complies with draft MicroTCA PICMG® standards
  • Designed for embedding in rugged environments including NEBS

CENTELLIS 1000

The Centellis 1000 Series is a MicroTCA Open Application-Enabling Platform. The Centellis 1000 series platform represents a quantum leap forward in platform outsourcing by providing highly integrated and verifi ed hardware and software components, reducing development costs and accelerating time-to- market. This allows telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs), defense primes, and original equipment makers (OEMs) in a broad range of market segments and applications, to focus their development efforts on critical, differentiating features that provide a competitive advantage.

The Centellis 1000 series is designed to the draft specification of the MicroTCA open standard, making it physically smaller, with finer-grained scalability than Emerson's initial communications servers that are based on the AdvancedTCA® industry standard. This fine-grained scalability enables MicroTCA platforms to support a pay-as-you-grow business model that allows customers to realize solutions with less capital expenditure and expand the computing platform capabilities in small, low-cost increments as demand for the new service increases. This advantage is particularly relevant to some of the new point-of-access applications such as WiMAX and IP PBX.

Because MicroTCA builds on AdvancedTCA technology, products based on the MicroTCA standard can get to market quickly with lower development costs. A MicroTCA system uses the same Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AdvancedMC™) module designs that are deployed as mezzanines on AdvancedTCA blades. Reuse of existing hardware and software will improve cost efficiency through economies of scale. Architecture similarities make software migration between the two types of platforms relatively easy.

The Centellis 1000 family will be used in a wide range of applications, such as WiMAX access points, VoIP access gateways, and cellular base stations where reducing the capital cost of installing or extending next-generation network elements is very important. Small physical size, low power consumption, and enhanced serviceability also make these new communication servers ideal for a variety of applications in defense/aerospace, federal, medical, and industrial market segments.