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ATCA Newsletter for April – May 2009
Features:
- SCOPE Alliance Launches New Web Site and New Documents
- Recent CP-TA Activities
- OpenSAF News
- Service Availability Forum Expands Its Mission to Include Education
- MicroTCA Makes WIN-T Muster
- Need More Than 10G per Channel or Better Traffic Control?
- AdvancedTCA Support of Wireless Flow-Based Routing
- Developing AdvancedTCA Systems with Large Storage Requirements
- Developing Cost-Effective MicroTCA Solutions
- AdvancedTCA System Design and Integration for Next-Generation Networks
- Interview with Joe McDevitt, PICMG Vice President of Marketing
Network Equipment Providers Team to Promote Open Specifications and Accelerate Development of Carrier Grade Base Platforms
Leading network equipment providers Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens have launched SCOPE, an industry alliance to accelerate the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and free open source software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. Read more…
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AdvancedTCA Summit focuses on the AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA standards for backplanes in telecommunications equipment. These standards allow manufacturers to develop equipment in a standard form and provide for expansion, interoperability, maintenance, and replacement via simple insertion or removal of boards. AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA also offer access to the latest high-speed chips and communications standards, hot-swapping (replacement of boards without powering down the system – and thus interrupting service), and a larger power budget than previous standards. Note that AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA are just backplanes into which one plugs circuit boards of a particular type and size. AdvancedMC or AMC is a mezzanine card specification that allows designers to make small additions, revisions, or updates (via a piggyback board) to existing AdvancedTCA boards (thus avoiding expensive board changes). MicroTCA is a backplane based on small AMC cards without any full AdvancedTCA boards at all (for smaller applications with size or cost restrictions).
