Date: 30th Jun 2011
Cavium Dual OCTEON II processor based
40G ATCA packet processing blade from Emerson
Emerson Network Power has made available its first 40G
AdvancedTCA payload blade, the ATCA-9405. Emerson claims
this blade system provides telecom equipment manufacturers
with up to four times performance increase over previous
generation ATCA blades for high touch and high throughput
packet processing applications in the latest data-intensive
network evolution, including:
The latest 4G LTE mobile networks for transport and control
plane functions, lawful interception and packet gateways
Network security applications such as unified threat management,
session border controllers and intrusion detection and prevention
systems (IDPS)
Deep packet inspection applications for policy enforcement
and quality of service control
Secure cloud services such as application-aware switching
ATCA-9405 is powered by dual OCTEON II CN6860 processors
from Cavium, each with 32 cnMIPS cores running at up to
1.5GHz to handle packet processing applications at line
speeds of 40Gbps. The ATCA-9405 has been designed to maximize
the deep packet inspection, security application processing
and raw throughput of the OCTEON processors. In addition
to two 40G ATCA data fabric connections that can operate
active/active as well as active/standby, the ATCA-9405 provides
for direct Ethernet cable terminations of up to 82Gbps via
a rear transition module (RTM) giving a total maximum throughput
of 328Gbps. To help manage this, the blade's dual-core Freescale
QorIQ P2020 processor implements sophisticated Ethernet
switch management as well as local management functions.
Free of such system management overhead, the OCTEON II processors
can be dedicated solely to packet processing.
"The introduction of the ATCA-9405 marks the third
phase in our proven 40G ATCA deployment strategy as detailed
in our free eBook," said Rob Pettigrew, director of
marketing, Embedded Computing, Emerson Network Power. "For
network equipment providers who are concerned about integration
of multiple blades at the new 40GbE data rate, the promise
of interoperability and compatibility from a platform provider
such as Emerson Network Power will be very reassuring."
Steve Klinger, Director, OCTEON Product Marketing at Cavium
said, "Emerson Network Power has a track record of
high performance and high reliability in its ATCA implementations,
and the ATCA-9405 is no exception. This outstanding blade
design allows the blistering speed of the new OCTEON II
processor to be used to its full effect in the most demanding
security and packet inspection applications."
The new blade supports softwares including Wind River's
Linux 4.x operating system, Cavium' s packet processing
software development kit, 6WIND's 6WINDGate fast path
networking stacks, and field proven L2 and optional L3 Ethernet
switch management. The ATCA-9405 can operate with or without
rear transition modules depending on system architecture,
and is designed to support NEBS/ETSI requirements.
For more information visit: www.Emerson.com/ATCA.
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