Server system can enable up to 4.0Tb/s aggregate bandwidth

23rd October 2014

Siobhan O'Gorman

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Claimed to be the industry’s most powerful AdvancedTCA (ATCA) open-standard server system, the Centellis 8840 has been released by Artesyn Embedded Technologies. The server system, which supports power and cooling for up to 600W per blade, features a 160G aggregate bandwidth capacity per blade today and will feature a 400G capacity in the future.

The device integrates 100G ATCA technology into a NEBS-ready platform that accepts 40G ATCA blades and will accept 100G blades when they are available. The system is suitable for network equipment providers and carriers developing SDN/NFV network security, where deep packet inspection techniques are used to process large data flows in real time.

To provide four independent networks supporting up to 400Gb/s aggregated bandwidth to every blade, Artesyn has implemented the QuadStar backplane architecture. Using today’s 40G switches and processor blades, customers can achieve an aggregated system bandwidth of 1.6Tb/s with no redundancy. In a non-redundant implementation using the same chassis and backplane, the QuadStar technology can enable up to 4.0Tb/s aggregate system bandwidth using 100G switches and processor blades.

A broad portfolio of ATCA processing and networking blades based on Intel Xeon or Cavium OCTEON processor or DSPs from TI or Octasic are offered by Artesyn, providing customers with flexible configuration options. The company recently released the ATCA-7480 QuadStar packet processing blade, which is based on two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 family processors. According to Artesyn, the processor blade is the highest performing blade in the industry, providing up to 28 processing cores per blade.

The company’s System Services Framework (SSF) software, which configures and monitors software and hardware components in a single shelf or complex system of multiple ATCA shelves, is supported by the Centellis 8840. According to Artesyn, the SSF could save up to 40% of customers’ time-to-market. For advanced load balancing and packet classification, directing traffic flow to individual payload processors for further processing, the server system also supports the company’s FlowPilot software.

Todd Wynia, Vice President for Communication Products, Artesyn Embedded Technologies, said: “Communications service providers are telling us that enterprise switches and servers may not provide a sufficient hardware platform for the deployment of SDN and NFV within the carrier cloud and service provider’s network. So, a platform such as Artesyn’s Centellis 8000 series is required, especially toward the network core where high capacity and high reliability are essential.”