Kontron has developed the KISS 4U KTC-5520 transportation rackmount server to handle passenger infotainment applications in trains. This application-ready standard platform combines up to two Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with remote management functionality. It has up to 48Gbyte of DDR3 ECC-registered SDRAM/processor. There are possibilities for expansion through one PCI Express x16 (PEG) (configurable as one PCI Express x8), three PCIe 2.0 x8, one PCIe x4 (on the x8 slot) and one PCI. In addition, there are interfaces for two Gigabit Ethernet connections, six USB 2.0 (two on the front) and one COM (RS232). The server is also compliant to EN 50155, EN 50121 and EN 60068 rail standards. Passenger infotainment applications such as video on demand are enhanced by the high simultaneous data processing capacity of the server, claims the company. Fitted with up to eight processor cores and 16 threads, it is able to distribute several hundred HD-quality video streams. MTBF is 50,000 hours. An integrated management processor supports VGA/2D, BMC and KVM/VM over IP (iKVM) for real-time virtualisation of the keyboard, monitor and mouse plus virtual media from any external PC. The intelligent platform-management interface over LAN complies to IPMI 2.0.
