As ATCA-based platforms gain in popularity they enable TEMS to provide scalable, cost-effective capacity expansion solutions that help companies
accommodate more users, more information, more efficiently.
Centralizing basic infrastructure resources and supporting them with
standard software interfaces enables the time-to-market advantages
promised by ATCA.
AMC cards can be used in a variety of ways beyond that of mezzanines on STCA boards. This includes use on carriers with proprietary form-factors or in AMC-specific chassis, opening a world of possible applications.
Designing IPMI together with a standard system management
architecture offers manageability features that are interoperable
with existing and future systems while lowering IT operational costs.
The traditionally static data center environment is being transformed
into a dynamic one by the emergence of server switches. These provide high-performance clustering, multifabric I/O, and I/O virtualization and cluster automation, with the help of InfiniBand.
Growth in datasets and decreased time to complete compute-intensive tasks is spurring the development of high-performance supercomputer clusters. InfiniBand is emerging as the interconnect of choice because of its low latency, high bandwidth and CPU offload/OS bypass.
High-performance, multi-service switching platforms are helping to construct next-generation data centers and form the backbone of compute grids and large computing clusters. Leveraging InfiniBand, they provide high-speed connectivity between servers, and intelligent, multi-layer connectivity to external networks and storage resources.
Vendors are getting onto the InfiniBand wagon with standard chassis solutions that trump the costs and development times of proprietary high-speed interconnects.
Internet telephony must provide the same level of quality as traditional, circuit switched telephone lines in addition to extreme flexibility of service and excellent scalability. A standards-based approach could be the best way of making highly available Internet telephony a reality.
FPGAs, properly connected, can take on the character of a large monolithic processing device. Serial switched interconnects let FPGAs connect at full bandwidth.
