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ATCA vs. Blade Servers

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

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ATCA vs. Blade Servers

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

  2. 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 andQualityof 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 • ~ 730Employees and Growing • Global Presence • HQ & R&D in Israel; • R&D 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

  3. A Battle Rages Blade Servers ATCA Telecom Applications Market

  4. 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

  5. ATCA Physical Form Factor • Dimensions: • Front board size 8U x 280 mm • Rear board size 8U x 70 mm • Connects directly to front board

  6. 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

  7. ATCA vs. CPCI

  8. 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 1+1 redundancy • Clocks – 8KHz,19.4MHz,GP, dual redundant • Zone 3 • Vendor-specific Rear connections • Backplane is open

  9. 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 The Big Question: Which one will dominate?

  10. ATCA Market Forecast Merchant ATCA CPU Blades, Currentand Projected Markets,2005-2010(US$ in Millions) 2005-2010 CAGR: 88.27% Source: VDC

  11. 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

  12. Advanced Mezzanine Card • Promise of Mix-n-match • CPU Blades • Carrier Blades • Enables “one-blade” applications • Core of the MicroTCA architecture Diagram courtesy PICMG

  13. MicroTCA • Platform to host multiple AMCs • Range of Sizes • Single wide • Double wide • Applications • Telecommunications • Military • Industrial GE Fanuc MicroTCA Chassis

  14. 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

  15. Blade Server Market Incompatible

  16. Blade Server Market

  17. Chassis Options BladeCenter HT BladeCenter T BladeCenter BladeCenter H

  18. Resources Available For IBM BladeServer: IBM PCI Expansion Unit (PEU) AudioCodes TP-1650 Media Gateway GE Fanuc AMC Carrier

  19. Market Situation Cost # Available Software Applications

  20. Comparison: ATCA vs. Blade Servers

  21. Where will they fit?

  22. 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

  23. Questions? ?

  24. More information Booth #115

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