Advantech NCP-7560 Packetarium network platform

Advantech’s Network and Telecom Group has released its high-end Packetarium platforms for wire-speed packet processing. The NCP-7560 is a 4U rackmount network appliance, scalable from 12 to 96 cores based on the Cavium Networks Octeon Plus network processor.

The device represents the high-performance end of the company’s Packetarium range. It integrates up to eight multi-core network processing boards for wire speed packet processing, providing up to 80 Gbps throughput.

The system can be scaled with up to eight vertically mounted boards, each loaded with a 12-core Octeon Plus CN56/57XX network processor. All the boards are linked by dual XAUI ports to a Broadcom BCM56820 10GbE switch on the carrier board. The 10GbE switch also provides six front panel 10GbE SFP+ ports and 16 GbE SFP ports via a BCM56512 GbE switch.

Two mezzanine card slots connect to PCIe for add-on gateway capabilities and to an onboard SAS controller if SAS/SATA 2.5″ storage is required. The carrier board incorporates an MPC8545 local processor for overall switch and system management, and provides two front panel 100 Mbps ports for remote management. Debug ports are also made available for development of custom or application-specific hardware.