Advantech ATCA-7310 and NCPB-2320 dual processor blades

The ATCA-7310 and NCPB-2320 packet processing engines are new blades based on the Cavium Networks CN6880 Octeon II processor with the high-end ATCA blade featuring dual processors 32 MIPS64 cores for a total of 64x 64-bit cores per blade.

The ATCA PPE is targeted at high-end control, service and dataplane applications in 4G/LTE networks while the Packetarium NCPB PPE is optimised for converged voice, video and data applications typical of cloud computing and security applications such as unified threat management and deep packet inspection.

The ATCA-7310 is an example of the company’s technology re-use strategy, implementing processor architectures in multiple form factors allowing users to choose platforms with the best price and performance point for their specific applications while protecting their software investments.

The Octeon II 68XX is the first 64-bit processor to provide 48 GHz of compute power on a single chip across 32 cores, and provides triple the GHz per chip and two to five times better performance/watt than other solutions.

The device supports up to 64 GB of DDR3-1066 memory with a broadcom BCM56841 40GbE switch. Four 10G/40G fabric interfaces (40GBaseKR4, 10GBaseKX4) are supported with 12 lanes of 10 GbE to the RTM for uplinks.

The blade also provides support for dynamic clock and cores management, console server, remote upgrade and LMP boot image support HPM.1.

The NCPB-2320 supports up to 32 GB of DDR3-1333 memory. Control plane functionality is provided by two PCIe x4 interfaces and data plane capabilities are supported by two 4x SGMII, 1x XAUI or 1x DXAUI depending on the carrier.