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Real-Time Processing Blade in a Standard Single-Slot AdvancedTCA® Formfactor

  • Up to six PowerPPC 7448 processors
    - Dual Freescale® PowerPC™ 7448 processors running up to 1GHz on the baseboard
    - Up to four Freescale PowerPC 7448 processors running up to 1GHz on four modules
  • ATCA PICMG® 3.1 Option 3
  • Up to 1GB DDR SDRAM with ECC in SO-DIMM package on the baseboard and up to 512MB DDR SDRAM on each processor module
  • 128MB of flash memory on the baseboard and total of 256MB of flash memory on four modules
  • Managed L2/L3 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
  • Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet with access to on board switch fabric
  • Dual 10/100 Ethernet front panel access per module
  • IPMI Controller with redundant intelligent platform management bus
  • Carrier Grade Linux® and VxWorks® support
  • RoHS/WEEE compliant configuration available
  • Quality assured by over 30 years of design experience and a TL-9000 and ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system. (FM 26789)

KatanaPPB

The KatanaPPB is a high-speed multiprocessor AdvancedTCA™ (ATCA) telecom blade optimized for control and packet processing applications such as WAN access, SS7/SIGTRAN signaling, media gateways, wireless base station controllers, radio network controllers and softswitches. It is equipped with up to six Freescale PowerPC MPC7448 processors, two processors on the base board and up to four processors mounted on four processor PMC (PrPMC) modules. Each processor complex has its own DRAM and flash memory. The KatanaPPB features a high-speed PICMG 3.1 compliant ATCA interface with ten Gigabit Ethernet channels, 2 base channels, plus 2 fabric channels with 4 ports each.

To optimize control performance and packet processing throughput, the KatanaPPB employs a versatile multiprocessor interconnect with separate control and data planes. The product uses a local PCI bus to interconnect all six processors for the control plane. The on-board GbE switch eliminates the packet routing processing overhead of traditional data plane architectures.

The KatanaPPB features a PICMG 3.0 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI version 1.5 with ATCA extensions). This interface, which incorporates dual I2Cbased Intelligent Platform Management Buses (IPMB), enhances system management by making it easy for shelf management controllers to monitor, control and exchange information with the KatanaPPB.

Katana is a Japanese word for ‘sword’. Emerson’s Katana family of processor blades embodies the power and swiftness of this sword.