The Centellis 4440 is the first 40GbE based ATCA platform core from Emerson Network Power
The Centellis 4440 is the first 40GbE based ATCA platform core from Emerson Network Power
- Best-in-class thermal characteristics
- Fabric interface bandwidth options for 1/10/40GbE
- 14-slot, 13U, 19" form factor
- Designed for CP-TA B.4 thermal compliance
- Redundant PICMG 3.0 & 3.1 base/fabric switching blades
- Combined switch/control blades to maximize billable application slots
- Variety of payload blades
- Integrated software environment including operating system
- Designed for NEBS/ETSI compliance
The Emerson Network Power Centellis™ 4440 AdvancedTCA® platform core is specifically designed to address the unique carrier-grade requirements of the telecommunications industry. Application examples include wireless infrastructure, packetized voice, wireline data, and cable network head-end equipment. Highly integrated and verified hardware and software components, reduced development costs and accelerating time-to-market allow network equipment providers (NEPS) to focus their development resources on critical, differentiating features that provide a competitive advantage.
The heart of the Centellis 4440 platform core is the AXP1440 AdvancedTCA (ATCA®) shelf and includes redundant shelf manager and alarm modules, redundant power entry modules (PEMs) and two fan tray modules. The AXP1440 shelf features a 40GbE “KR-Ready” backplane. This allows for 40Gbps communication across the PICMG 3.1 fabric interface. Using this technology, it is possible to upgrade to 40GbE capable switch and payload blades in the future without replacing the shelf infrastructure. This is becoming increasingly important as dataplane applications start migrating to ATCA based platforms. Equally important is the thermal characteristics of the AXP1440 shelf. It is designed to meet the CP-TA B.4 thermal profile, the highest level possible. As processor technology advances, thermal (heat dissipation) is one of the industries largest challenges – no other ATCA shelf on the market has better thermal characteristics than the AXP1440.
Another important element of the Centellis 4440, R1.0 platform core is the ATCA-F120 system controller and switching blade. The ATCA-F120 combines PICMG compliant base and fabric interface switching functionality with two AMC slots for additional processing and/or local storage. Assuming an HA environment with redundant ATCA-F120 switch blades, combining these key functions provides customers with two additional slots for billable applications.
A variety of payload blades, AMCs and accessory products are available for the Centellis 4440, R1.0 platform depending on application requirements. Each blade comes complete with Basic Blade Services (BBS) software, a Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) distribution and Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) compliant Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) interface to user applications.
