Embedded Computing Home

Related Documents

Datasheet

  • AdvancedTCA shelf to deliver 5NINES availability into central office environments
  • 13U/19” chassis with 14 vertical blade slots
  • Front maintenance and rear cabling
  • Fault-resilient design to minimize hardware induced failures
  • AdvancedTCA hot swap based maintenance of the running system
  • Integrated shelf management for electronic keying, thermal management, and network based remote access
  • PICMG 3.0 compliant packet switching backplanes in different topologies
  • Gigabit Ethernet switches for non-blocking base channel and fabric channel switching

CENTELLIS CO31KX

Specifically designed to meet the needs of the communications market, the AdvancedTCA® (ATCA™) specification addresses a wide range of applications requiring reliability, maintenance, and performance. The Emerson Network Power Centellis™ 31KX is an ATCA platform that can be used to achieve high density at the rack level, to support front maintenance and rear cabling requirements for the central office and to address central office-driven environmental requirements.

The Centellis 31KX integrates the chassis, cooling, power distribution, shelf management, and managed networks into an off-the-shelf platform solution on which you can add your service-related hardware and software. With an architecture designed for 5NINES availability, the Centellis 31KX PICMG® 3.0 compliant embedded ATCA packet switching backplane platform minimizes both planned and unplanned downtime and provides continuous service during fault recovery. The Centellis 31KX provides this level of protection through a combination of redundancy of the component level to avoid single points of failure; repair and upgrade of the running system without impacting the system service; remote access for monitoring, control, and upgrade; and unmistakable guidance through component replacement procedures.

The result is a high availability server ideally suited for data-intensive central office and networking applications, including media gateway controllers, VoIP concentrators, multimedia servers, signaling gateways, cable head-end, IP/DSLAM, IP/PBX, and next generation wireless base station controller (BSC) systems.

In addition to redundancy of all active system components, the Centellis 31KX series supports high availability through hot-swappable key system components. Power distribution, cooling fan trays, and shelf management controllers are all hot swappable to minimize downtime and mean time to repair (MTTR). ATCA boards are also hot swappable so they can be added, removed, or replaced without bringing down the system. If heat is a concern for system reliability, the chassis is designed to provide a cooling capacity for 200W per front slot and additional 5W per rear slot to support active components even on rear transition modules (RTMs).