Kontron AT8242 packet processor blade

Kontron has unveiled the 40 GbE ATCA packet processor blade AT8242 designed with two Octeon II cnMIPS64 multicore processors from Cavium Networks.

This is the third generation of Kontron products based on the Octeon family of multicore processors.

The processor manages complex networking functions of future converged voice, video and data traffic over IP-based networks.

It features two Octeon II CN6880 processors, each one integrating 32 enhanced cnMIPS64 v2 cores with up to 48 GHz of 64-bit computing power in a single chip.

It also combines over 85 L3-L7 application acceleration engines, virtualisation features, 100 Gbps of connectivity and a new real-time power optimiser that adjusts power depending on the application-level processing requirement.

Users can use the blade in combination with the 14-slot ATCA platforms OM9141-40G and/or OM9141-10G, featuring switch management software and up to four times the I/O switching bandwidth than the previous platform generation.

The device is designed for versatility and can be used in many core and edge network applications, particularly packet data network gateways, serving gateways and mobility management entity network elements found in the 4G LTE evolved packet core.