Right on 27-29 October, a number of world’s solution providers, consultants, board & system level vendors, equipment manufacturers, standardization bodies, analysts, software companies, computer OEMs, other companies, and partners (more than 100 participants) will meet together at AdvancedTCA Summit 2009 in Santa Clara, California. Some of participants such as Intel Corp, Cisco Systems, Kontron , Emerson Network Power, Sun Microsystems, Crystal Cube Consulting, etc. The Summit is about the use of AdvancedTCA as well as AdvancedMC and MicroTCA as the standard of choice for system designers and architects in developing the next generation networks with wireless-based systems implementation.

It is interesting that the AdvancedTCA standard-based implementation is successfully applied not only in telecom networks, but also in lab research operation, central office applications, medical services integration, and even for military infrastructure. Open standards-based AdvancedTCA is surely reliable to optimize packet-based telecom applications with its very small design, high scalability and flexibility more…

It is available for any vendors or companies that want to migrate and improve their proprietary telecommunication network or central office application server to open standard one. Introducing, Kontron Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC, or PICMG AdvancedMC) Modules and Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture Boards (ATCA).

AMC (AdvancedMC) is the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group’s specification (PICMG AMC.0, AMC.1, AMC.2, AMC.3 and AMC.4 respectively) for hot-swappable FRUs (field replaceable units) and field-replaceable mezzanine cards, enabling them to be replaced individually in the field. It is more attractive by enhancing its scalability, flexibility, and upgradeability. By combining a general-purpose AdvancedTCA board with application-specific AdvancedMC modules, designers can create versatile telecom blades whose functionality and capacity can be upgraded without replacing the entire blade. more…