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Title: ATCA vs. Blade Servers


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ATCA vs. Blade Servers
  • A battle rages for your next generation hardware
    platform (H-01)

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AudioCodes at a Glance
  • 13 Years of Operation
  • Focused on VoP Media Gateway Media Server
    Technology and Systems
  • Adding Session Border controller
  • Over 15 Million Channels Shipped to Over 75
    Countries
  • Leader in Innovation and Quality of VoP Solutions
  • Executing, Profitable and Growing
  • NASDAQ AUDC Public since 1999
  • Over 4 years of consecutive quarterly growth
  • Improving Operating Model, 13 of Sales
  • 143M in Cash
  • 730 Employees and Growing
  • Global Presence
  • HQ RD in Israel
  • RD extensions in the USA (NC, NJ, CA, TX) and
    the UK
  • Sales Support Offices in US (7 offices),
    Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, UK, Germany,
    Russia, China, Singapore, India, Korea, Japan
  • Employee Geographical Breakdown
  • Nth Sth America 240
  • EMEA 470
  • APAC 22

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A Battle Rages
Blade Servers
ATCA
Telecom Applications Market
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ATCA What is it?
  • Platform for both telecom and computing
    applications
  • High Availability features
  • Specified by PCI Industrial Computers
    Manufacturers Group (PICMG 3.0)
  • Successor to cPCI
  • ETSI and NEBS-ready
  • Many redundancy features
  • Highly Scalable
  • Centralized management

Alliance Systems ATCA Chassis
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ATCA Physical Form Factor
  • Dimensions
  • Front board size 8U x 280 mm
  • Rear board size 8U x 70 mm
  • Connects directly to front board

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ATCA Benefits for Telecom
  • Larger physical board
  • More usable board space
  • 200W / board
  • Faster / more processors
  • Improved mechanical design
  • Better heat dissipation
  • Interface to rear transition modules
  • 1Gbps Base Interface
  • Choice of Fabric Interfaces
  • Ethernet, Fibre Channel, StarFabric,
    PCI-Express, RapidIO
  • Separate IPMI management

AudioCodes TP-12610
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ATCA vs. CPCI
Attribute PICMG 2.16 (cPCI/CPSB) PICMG 3 ATCA
Size 6U x 160mm x .8 57 sq in 8U x 280mm x 1.2 140 sq in
Mezzanine 2 x PMC 4 x PMC 8x AMC
Power 35-50W, central converter 5/12/3.3V on backplane 150-200W, distributed converter Dual 48V on Backplane
Bandwidth 38 Gb/s 2.4 Tb/s
Managment OK Advanced
Clocks, update bus No Yes
Regulatory conformance Vendor specific In-standrad
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ATCA Interfaces
  • Zone 1
  • Power Dual 48V, distributed conversion
  • Management Dual redundant IPMB
  • Keying
  • Zone 2
  • Base interface Dual star GBETH for control
    (CPSB like)
  • Fabric interface PICMG 3.X
  • Update channel between adjacent slots for 11
    redundancy
  • Clocks 8KHz,19.4MHz,GP, dual redundant
  • Zone 3
  • Vendor-specific Rear connections
  • Backplane is open

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ATCA Fabric Interface Types
  • The Fabric is Dedicated for Bearer Data
  • Packet voice (IP/ATM)
  • TDM voice (H110 - like)
  • PICMG 3.X
  • 3.1 Ethernet and Fiber Channel 1GBit/s
  • Very common and widely supported
  • TDM and ATM support problematic
  • 3.2 InfiniBand, 2.5Gb/s
  • 3.3 StarFabric, 2.5Gb/s
  • Designated for TDM, Packet and PCI transport
  • Questionable availability so far
  • Supported by StarGen only
  • 3.4 PCI-Express Advanced Switching
  • Targeted to all types of Fabric applications
  • PCI-express Widely supported Driven by PC
    industry
  • Sponsored by Intel, Alcatel, Siemens etc.
  • Chipsets still NA
  • 3.5 RapidIO Advanced Fabric Interface, 2Gb/s

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ATCA Market Forecast
Merchant ATCA CPU Blades, Currentand Projected
Markets,2005-2010(US in Millions) 2005-2010
CAGR 88.27
Source VDC
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Advanced Mezzanine Card
  • Modular hot-swap cards
  • Processor Resources
  • DSP Resources
  • Packet Processors
  • PSTN Network Interfaces
  • WAN Interfaces
  • Serial Interfaces
  • Disk storage
  • and more

GE Fanuc Processor AMC
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Advanced Mezzanine Card
  • Promise of Mix-n-match
  • CPU Blades
  • Carrier Blades
  • Enables one-blade applications
  • Core of the MicroTCA architecture

Diagram courtesy PICMG
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MicroTCA
  • Platform to host multiple AMCs
  • Range of Sizes
  • Single wide
  • Double wide
  • Applications
  • Telecommunications
  • Military
  • Industrial

GE Fanuc MicroTCA Chassis
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Blade Servers
  • Packaging multiple serversinto one physical
    chassis,sharing common storagenetworking, and
    management resources.
  • Value Proposition
  • Reduces cabling/clutter
  • Reduces power consumption
  • Easier to manage
  • Simplifies upgrades/replacements
  • Focus is on Servers
  • Manufactured by IBM, Intel, Dell, HP, Sun
  • Mostly proprietary
  • Little interoperability between vendors

IBM BladeCenter
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Blade Server Market
Incompatible
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Blade Server Market
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Chassis Options
BladeCenter HT
BladeCenter T
BladeCenter
BladeCenter H
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Resources Available
  • For IBM BladeServer

IBM PCI Expansion Unit (PEU)
AudioCodes TP-1650 Media Gateway
GE Fanuc AMC Carrier
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Market Situation
Cost
Available Software Applications
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Comparison ATCA vs. Blade Servers
Feature / Capability ATCA Blade Servers
Commercial Volumes No Yes
Modular (AMC / MicroTCA) Yes Limited
Enterprise and Telco versions No Yes
Chassis Management Yes Yes
Telecom-friendly Rear Transition Modules Yes Limited
NEBS Yes Some
Interoperability / Open Specification High Low
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Where will they fit?
Telecom Applications ATCA Fit Blade Server Fit
Billing / Management Too expensive Excellent
Applications Good Good
Access / Edge Excellent Poor
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Other Interesting Facts
  • Intel is investing heavily in ATCA
  • Sun abandon their proprietary blade server and
    has adopted ATCA
  • HP has strong telecom history/partnerships
  • HP has struck a deal with Intel to deliver ATCA
  • IBM has opened up the BladeCenter specification
    via IEEE and Blade.org
  • IBM is aggressively workingwith a range of ISV
    partners

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Questions?
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