KatanaPPBCompany Description: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 North-American Headquarters:
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