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New standards for high speed networks
AdvancedTCA System
assembled with
AdvancedMC Carrier
and Modules
AdvancedMC Modules
inside a Carrier
µTCA System assembled
with AdvancedTCA
Modules
AdvancedMC
Modules
µTCA 19" Subrack
assembled with
AdvancedMC Modules
New Demands
Competitive Advantages with a new
Equipment Generation
Increasing data traffic and new communication The present situation in the telecommunication
services demand flexible, reliable and scalable sector shows, that 99% of all systems are
infrastructures.
proprietary. Many telecommunication companies,
however, cannot or do not want to develop or
Since 2001 PICMG has therefore investigated what operate proprietary systems any longer, but are
the market expects from a new forward-looking demanding a standardised infrastructure.
standard for telecommunication applications.
With the new AdvancedTCA equipment generation,
The resulting AdvancedTCA standard demands an hardware and software components from different
effective capacity for data transfers up to 2.5 Tbit/s, manufacturers can be utilised and combined. This
along with 99.999% availability of the system, new technology offers a flexible, cost effective
meaning that such a system is only allowed to module, with low development costs and short
be inoperable for max. 5.3 minutes per year. product launch times.
Furthermore, different protocols, such as Ethernet,
Infiniband, Star-Fabric, PCI-Express and Rapid I/O
for fast interfaces have to be supported.
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Applications
The AdvancedTCA standard was originally defined
for the applications in the telecommunications
sector. The platform orientated concept is ideally
suited for:
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✔ Wireless
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✔ Wireline
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✔ Voiceover IP
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✔ Video on Demand
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✔ Media Gateways
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✔ Broadband platform services
Switches, routers and other network applications
profit through the extremely high data transfer
rates of above 2.5 Tbit/s.