Kontron has unveiled the 40GbE advanced telecommunications computing architecture packet processor blade AT8242 with two OCTEON II cnMIPS64 multi-core processors from Cavium Networks. The packet processor blade is suitable for telecomms equipment requiring dense and open-standard 40G bladed hardware.
Each one of the OCTEON II processors integrate 32 cnMIPS64 v2 cores with up to 48GHz of 64bit computing power in a single chip. It combines over 85 L3-L7 application acceleration engines, virtualisation features, 100Gbit/s of connectivity, and a real-time power optimiser that adjusts the power depending upon the application-level processing requirement.
The packet processor blade can be used in combination with the OM9141-40G and/or OM9141-10G ATCA platforms that feature switch management software. It is designed for versatility and can be used in many core and edge network applications, particularly packet data network gateways, serving gateways and mobility management entity network elements found in the 4G long term evolution evolved packet core.
The packet processor blade complies with PICMG (PCI industrial computer manufacturers group) 3.0 R3.0, PICMG 3.1 R1.0, and PICMG 3.1 R2.0 standards. Each OCTEON II processor is supported by a USB flash drive and four DDR3 DIMM sockets that support 32Gbyte address range for a total of up to 256Gbyte for both processors.
Each processor supports 2x20Gbit/s and 2x10Gbit/s for a total of up to 60Gbit/s to an Ethernet multilayer switch that has a bandwidth capacity of up to 320Gbit/s.
