To meet the high traffic demands of IPTV-based “on demand” media content, Kontron offers its AT8904 AdvancedTCA 10GbE hub loaded with switching features and provides exceptional flexibility with two AdvancedMC slots.
The two AMC slots on the Kontron AT8904 can be used to host the following configurations – processor AMC modules as main controllers or for load balancing; storage AMC modules as mass storage devices for the Processor AMC; and Network Processing Units for UDP/NAT or load balancing processing AMCs in combination with storage AMCs.
Thus, with these 2 AMC slots the hub blade’s functionality can be increased by using NPU-based AMCs supporting 10GbE for NAT functionality directly on the hub blade. In combination with a general purpose CPU-based AMC, all intelligence of the traffic management will reside on the hub including hot-swap capabilities which frees up bandwidth to the fabric interface to perform load balancing and network access translation. Everything resides on the hub blade and therefore maximizes the 10GbE fabric interface usage.
No need to use up bandwidth to the fabric interface to do load balancing and network access translation. Everything resides on the switch blade and therefore it maximizes the 10GbE fabric interface usage. The Kontron AT8904 hub additionally enables redundant 10GbE interlinks between multiple AdvancedTCA chassis with the Kontron AM4310 Mid-Size 10 GbE Interlink AMC module, featuring 2 x 10GbE uplinks on the front panel via optical XFP connectors, which are routed to the XAUI ports (ports 4-7 and 8-11) on the AMC connectors.
