ADLINK aTCA-9710 AdvancedTCA processor blade

ADLINK Technology has announced its AdvancedTCA (ATCA) carrier-grade product, the aTCA-9710, which features the dual 12-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 paired with the Intel Communications Chipset 8920 series. The device offers 16 channels of DDR4-2133 VLP RDIMMS, enabling high clock and data transfer rates.

The processor blade delivers high performance while keeping a thermal envelope under 105 W due to the adoption of Intel Node Manager 3.0, a power management technology. It is suitable for carrier-grade servers, data centres and networking, and also DPI, SDN and NFV applications. The processor delivers energy efficiency, enhanced security and advanced monitoring and management capabilities that enable a high level of automation and orchestration.

The product gains additional performance from the ADLINK PacketManager, a software suite that includes support for the Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), a set of libraries and drivers for improved packet processing on x86 platforms running Linux, as well as a management API for implementing network connections between server and client. It also comes with ADLINK’s Embedded Power Management Agent (EPMA), a software solution to allow data centre managers to confidently set upper limits on server power to maximise rack density without exceeding the rack power budget.