Centellis 4620 ATCA 10GbE 16-slot Platform

• AdvancedTCA based 10GbE communications server
• RoHS (6 of 6) compliant
• 16-slot, 23", form factor
• Verifi d shelf level thermals and PICMG® standards compliance
• Redundant PICMG 3.0 & 3.1 base/fabric switching blades
• Combined switch/control blades to maximize billable application slots
• Variety of payload blades
• Integrated software operating environment including operating system
• Designed for NEBS/ETSI compliance

The Centellis 4620 platform is the first in a series of AdvancedTCA based 10GbE communications servers from Emerson Network Power. These platforms provide highly integrated and verified hardware and software components, reduce development costs and accelerate time-to-market. This allows network equipment providers (NEPS) to focus their development resources on critical, differentiating features that provide a competitive advantage.

The Centellis™ 4000 series of AdvancedTCA® 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) servers are specifically designed to address the unique carrier-grade requirements of the telecommunications industry. Application examples include wireless infrastructure, packetized voice, wireline data, and cable network head-end equipment.

The Centellis 4620, R1 platform core is RoHS (5 of 6) compliant, neliminating the need for customers to incur the time, resource and expense associated with creating and/or converting existing product to meet this international requirement.

The heart of the Centellis 4620 platform is the AXP AdvancedTCA (ATCA®) shelf and the ATCA-F120 system controller and switch blade. The AXP shelf includes redundant shelf manager and alarm modules, redundant power entry modules (PEMs) and four fan tray modules. The ATCA-F120 system controller and switching blade combines PICMG compliant base and fabric interface switching functionality with two AMC slots, so that processing capability for HA middleware or user applications can be added. Assuming a redundant switch and HA middleware environment, combining these key functions provides customers with two additional slots for billable applications.

A variety of payload blades are offered for the Centellis 4620 platform depending on application requirements. Basic Blade Services (BBS) software is provided with each blade to create an integrated platform including a standard Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) distribution and Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) compliant Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) to user applications.