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- Will open standards ever come to telecomm?
- Will open standards ever come to telecomm?aTCA -an open standard platform in full deploymentEmerson believes the ATCA market is unfolding as we expected and there’s a wealth of evidence that confirms strong industry adoption of open standards, including ATCA. Some of the estimates of market size that were made were...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Huawei ATCA Blade Server Powered by AMD Opteron Processors
- When AMD first introduced the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture in 2003, the target market was for servers in the datacenter. Back then, AMD had a new vision for how system memory and I/O interface to the processor core as well as the ability to create the world's...
- White papers 2007-10-22
- Migration to ATCA: An Open Modular Architecture
- This white paper traces the evolution and presents a technical summary of the Advanced Telecommunication Communication Architecture ATCA technology. In addition, it lists the current market trends in ATCA products. The white paper begins with a detailed look at how Compact PCI cPCI evolved over the years until it lead...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Manageability InteropFest for ATCA Building Blocks
- The Communications Platforms Trade Association CPTA was launched to drive a mainstream market for interoperable communications platforms by solving interoperability issues that are not currently addressed by the existing specifications in the communications platforms industry. This white paper discusses how the CP-TA community plans to address interoperability issues in the...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Thermal Interoperability of AdvancedTCA Shelf and Boards
- This paper describes the AdvancedTCA ATCA Shelf requirements to cool all the Boards and facilitate the interoperability of Shelf slots. It also covers the flow impedance issues of Boards and introduces a methodology of impedance balancing. Further, to date, there is no standard measurement technique that can be adopted to...
- White papers 2006-10-31
- Fixed-mobile convergence switch race begets a Ferrari-Hummer hybrid
- So I got the weirdest voice mail of my life today. Now, we've all heard about boards of directors leaking to the press. But have you ever heard of a telecom switch dialing up an industry analyst all by itself and -- I swear, it sounded just like Stephen Hawking...
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Enabling ATCA-Based Next Generation Services
- A European manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and a communications solutions provider to telecommunication carriers, Internet Service Providers, and enterprises for delivery of voice, data, and video applications. The customer also provides solutions for fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications, and services, to help build a user-centric broadband world. The company...
- Case studies 2006-10-25
- 10-Gigabit Ethernet Switch Applications in ATCA
- To help standardize building practices for future platforms, the telecom market is moving toward adopting the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture ATCA. The availability of silicon solutions for 10-Gigabit Ethernet creates a wealth of opportunities for system developers who can leverage these solutions in ATCA products. 10-Gigabit Ethernet provides the cost-effective...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Standards-Based Platforms: The Path to ATCA Applications
- The problem of delivering and supporting complex network elements for the telecom market has fallen naturally into two distinct development phases: system integration and element creation. In the system integration phase, industry-standard subsystems are integrated into a functional "base platform," which consists of arbitrary hardware, operating system and manageability elements....
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Pluggable Optical Backplane Technology
- To meet the ever increasing demands in integrated circuit development, the speed and density of electronic communication paths and interconnects are expected to reach a stage, in the near future, where the cost of overcoming the fundamental obstacles associated with copper transmission will exceed the cost of incorporating equivalent optical...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- AdvancedTCA - "A Common Platform Concept to Improve Product Engineering"
- The Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture ATCA provides the telecommunications industry with an opportunity to adopt a standard architecture for a broad spectrum of products, including wireless access, wireless core networks, and IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network elements. Expected benefits for telecommunications suppliers and customers include improved product capacity, cost reduction,...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Network Management Systems Today: Meeting the Challenges of Complexity, Flexibility, and Customer Assurance With AdvancedTCA Technology
- Service providers today face many challenges. Network topologies are growing more complex, new technologies for IP-based service delivery must be integrated into their networks, and customers are more demanding and fickle than ever before. One of the most important requirements for assuring the timely delivery of services without interruption is...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Single board computers and embedded CPU blades generated $1.36 bln in 2003
- The overall market for slot single-board computers and embedded CPU Blades reached an estimated $1,360.3 mln in 2003, and is projected to increase at a Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 4.38% to $1,685.3 mln by 2008. Although VME currently represents the largest share of the SBC market, CompactPCI shipments...
- Blog posts 2004-11-15
- ATCA for Wireless Infrastructure
- As wireless carriers prepare their networks for soaring minutes-of-use, fixed/mobile convergence, and the new wave of rapid-fire service creation enabled by IMS, they are looking to equipment vendors to provide the next generation of high-performance, flexible, and cost-effective equipment. Key to this is the introduction of new, high-availability hardware platforms,...
- Webcasts
- Advanced TCA Update
- Much has happened in the ATCA market since Light Reading ran its first Webinars on the topic, which garnered big audiences and rave reviews. This Webinar provides an update on what's happened, both in terms of standards developments and product introductions.
- Webcasts
- Why ATCA May Be the Ideal Platform for Delivery of IP Multimedia Subsystem Service Network Elements
- In light of fierce competition and cheap minutes, service solutions providers can learn about a major trend toward the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS for revenue-boosting services. This webcast explains what is motivating the services market segment to move to IMS and why ATCA may be the ideal platform for delivery...
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