The two-slot platform was recognized by a panel of industry experts for its distinctiveness in demonstrating the central use of ATCA® and ability to offer significant business and technical benefits. With the ability to reuse any of the AdvancedTCA payload from its larger peers, the Centellis 2000 offers a cost-effective, industry standard solution suitable for smaller scale deployments, and enables network equipment providers to take advantage of their existing AdvancedTCA deployments by reusing hardware and software, providing investment protection and helping to reduce time to market and development cost.
Features include:
- 3U, 19” chassis with two horizontal blade slots
- Scalable reliability for central office and data center environments
- Front-to-rear cooling
- Fault-resilient design; front maintenance and rear cabling
- Integrated shelf management for inventory data, remote upgrade, electronic keying, thermal management, and network based remote access
- Built-in Gigabit Ethernet switches for non-blocking base channel switching
- AC and DC power versions available
- Fabric channel connects the two blades directly
- Additional user slots for OEM customization
- 5NINES availability in central office environments
The front-to-rear cooling architecture is an industry first and an important benefit for installation into central office locations. Because it is designed to meet CP-TA B.4 class thermal performance, the Centellis 2000 chassis will be able to handle the highest power AdvancedTCA boards in both slots with the highest reliability and availability rating for components.
With an architecture designed for 5NINES availability, the Centellis 2000 enables scalable reliability through the use of either independent or redundant functions throughout the chassis. All electronic modules, blades and cards are field replaceable units. The platform minimizes both planned and unplanned downtime and provides continuous service during fault recovery In addition to redundancy of all active system components; the Centellis 2000 supports high availability through hot-swappable key system components.
With both AC and redundant DC powered variants available, the Centellis 2000 is equally at home in data centers and enterprise environments as well. The result is a high availability server ideally suited for data-intensive central office and enterprise networking applications. The low profile makes the Centellis 2000 the optimal candidate for distributed networking functions, low density subscriber areas, or specialized applications. Target applications include distributed control plane functions, IMS/IPTV subsystems, 4G wireless applications, and edge networking and routing. With a 10G data path between blades and to user slots, full 10Gigabit Ethernet deep packet inspection appliances can be created, especially when combined with many-core processing blades.
