ATCA Newsletter for February 2008 – March 2008

Features:

AdvancedTCA’s Current Status in Europe
MicroTCA in Non-Telecom Markets
CP-TA Progress Report (March 2008)
Reaching the Unserved Billions of Potential Internet Users (with the Help of AdvancedTCA)
SCOPE Alliance Releases New Profiles
Testing the WiMAX Air Interface
Testing VoIP Networks
Using Fully Integrated Platforms to Develop Telecom Equipment
Real-Time Hypervisors in Embedded Applications
MicroTCA User Interview with Ed Morrissey, Global Velocity

Network Equipment Providers Team to Promote Open Specifications and Accelerate Development of Carrier Grade Base Platforms

Leading network equipment providers Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens have launched SCOPE, an industry alliance to accelerate the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and free open source software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. Read more…

Vendor Press Releases

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AdvancedTCA Summit focuses on the AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA standards for backplanes in telecommunications equipment. These standards allow manufacturers to develop equipment in a standard form and provide for expansion, interoperability, maintenance, and replacement via simple insertion or removal of boards. AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA also offer access to the latest high-speed chips and communications standards, hot-swapping (replacement of boards without powering down the system – and thus interrupting service), and a larger power budget than previous standards. Note that AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA are just backplanes into which one plugs circuit boards of a particular type and size. AdvancedMC or AMC is a mezzanine card specification that allows designers to make small additions, revisions, or updates (via a piggyback board) to existing AdvancedTCA boards (thus avoiding expensive board changes). MicroTCA is a backplane based on small AMC cards without any full AdvancedTCA boards at all (for smaller applications with size or cost restrictions).