Advantech Launches 100GE ATCA Switch Blade

Advantech announced the "ATCA-9223, a 100GbE AdvancedTCA hub blade based on the high capacity Broadcom BCM56852 StrataXGS® Trident II and BCM56150 switches. This scalable feature-rich hub blade switches traffic between two external 100GbE CFP2 ports, up to eighteen external 10GbE SFP+ ports and twelve 40G node slots on an ATCA backplane. The combined switching capacity of the Broadcom devices contributes to over 1 Terabit per second of throughput per hub blade.

The ATCA-9223 targets network equipment providers delivering ATCA-based solutions for applications such as high performance network security in carrier and large enterprise data center networks, next generation 4G/LTE network infrastructure or high-capacity and high port density DPI-based policy enforcement devices".

See "Advantech Launches 100G ATCA Switch Blade" - here.

DPI Announcement: Telco Systems and Advantech 40G Integrated ATCA Solutions

   

Telco Systems and Advantech announced "a strategic partnership to deliver integrated 40G ATCA platforms. The partnership brings Telco System’s carrier-grade switching software technology and blades to Advantech’s Networks and Telecom Group .. Telco Systems leverages its extensive experience in Carrier Ethernet networks to bring a carrier-grade solution to Advantech’s ATCA market".

See "Telco Systems and Advantech Partner to Deliver 40G Integrated ATCA Solutions" - here.

Franz Wei (picture),Vice President of Advantech, said: “The partnership gives customers a competitive advantage as we combine state-of-the-art switching, advanced load balancing, traffic management, and classification with the massive performance of next generation packet, signal and application processors. The resulting scalable systems will meet the most demanding requirements imposed by network and mobile security, deep packet inspection and video workloads”

ATCA slowly becomes a popular platform for DPI - currently used by Allot, NSN (for Flexi NG - here), Alcatel-Lucent (5780 PCRF - here) and Procera. Allot and Procera are using blades made by Continues Computing.

See also "DPI Market: GENBAND OEMs Procera"- here for the possible OEM benefits of ATCA and  "How to Build DPI Products? (Part II - System Design)" - here.