Artesyn Embedded Technologies has announced the ATCA-7480, a new deep packet inspection and server processing AdvancedTCA® (ATCA®) blade featuring dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processors, at the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The new packet processing blade supports up to 14 cores each, 16 sockets for up to 512 GB DDR4 memory and Artesyn QuadStar™ backplane interface. The Artesyn QuadStar™ backplane uses Intel® XL710 network interface controllers, consisting four 40G Ethernet networks that connect all the blades in the system.
According to Artesyn, the new blade system enables short response times for database access and accelerated pattern matching, and can also help optimize routing decisions in virtualized network environments.
The ATCA-7480 blade includes enabling software for Artesyn’s SDN/NFV solutions, including support for Intel DPDK-accelerated OpenVSwitch, OpenFlow and OpenStack plug-ins for managing virtualization services on the computing platform. The blade will also support Wind River’s Carrier Grade Communications Server, a fully integrated and feature-complete software platform that enables an NFV infrastructure to achieve the ultra-reliability and high performance mandated for telecom networks.
“Network functions virtualization (NFV) was envisaged to bring enterprise cloud concepts to the telecom world. However, one challenge is that enterprise class servers, so ubiquitous in the enterprise cloud, do not provide the compute density, I/O bandwidth, and carrier-grade ‘hardness’ required by many telecom applications. Addressing these requirements, Artesyn has worked closely with Intel to provide the carrier-class server platforms needed to build an NFV node in a true telecom environment.”
- Todd Wynia, vice president for communication products, Artesyn Embedded Technologies
“Using the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor family with the features of the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) enabled Artesyn to create an incredibly compute-dense platform with extremely high interconnect bandwidth, a key requirement of today’s communications applications.”
- Renu Navale, director of ecoystem programs for the Communications & Storage Infrastruture Group at Intel
