Kontron announces the full production availability of its 10G ATCA open modular platform OM9141-10G, featuring new advanced and faster bladed data transport, and switching and system management hardware. Kontron’s 10 GE ATCA open modular platform is a starting point for telecom equipment manufacturers to build on a common platform a multitude of new equipment configurations using CPU, NPU, DSP, storage and specialized 3rd-party ATCA-based line cards that meet the requirements for 3G, 4G LTE, WiMAX, GPON, IPTV and carrier cloud network elements.
Each Kontron 10G ATCA open modular platform OM9141-10G includes redundant power entry modules, cooling infrastructure with hot swappable redundant fans, and second generation 10GbE switching capabilities based on the Kontron 10G ATCA switch AT8910. Shelf Management is built-in with redundancy and interoperability-tested Shelf Manager Cross Connects as per PICMG specification, and an optional Kontron COM Express dual-core module is available on the Kontron AT8910 for centralized system management with a standards-based HPI implementation. A telco alarm panel provides telecom grade external system alarm notification. Equipment vendors assessing new system-level projects for a wide assortment of Core, Metro and Carrier Data Center network applications may start designs on the Kontron 10G ATCA open modular platform OM9141-10G for 3G and 4G LTE Network Elements, GPON/EPON and Optical Transport Network Elements, QoS and Test Platform Network Elements, and Service and Content Delivery platforms with Security and DPI functionality.
The very mature and stable Kontron switch management software suite supports a comprehensive list of core features and protocols including, among others – QoS, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, IPv4/IPv6 multicast routing and selected protocols. A sampling of supported protocols include: Ethernet multicast switching protocols and functions (such as GVRP, GARP, RSTP, LAG, IGMP Snooping, DiffServ, ACL); IPv4 unicast and multicast routing, unicast forwarding protocols & functions (such as ARP, OSPF, VRRP, RIP); multicast forwarding protocols & functions (such as PIM-DM, PIM-SM, DVMRP, IGMP); IPv6 unicast and multicast routing; and, IPv6 unicast forwarding protocols and functions (such as discovery, OSPFv3, MLD, 6to4/4to6 tunneling).
