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AdvancedTCA

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(Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) A carrier grade backplane and interconnect specification developed by PICMG and defined under the PICMG 3.x standards. Designed for industrial strength telecom equipment and datacenter servers, AdvancedTCA cards are 14" high (8U) and may reside in single slot cabinets or cabinets up to 23" wide that hold 16 cards.

AdvancedTCA (ATCA) provides point-to-point, dual star and mesh topologies for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, StarFabric, PCI Express and Serial RapidIO channels up to a total bandwidth of 2.5 Tbps. The first implementations of AdvancedTCA appeared in 2003.

Mezzanine Cards and Small Form Factor
The Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC or AMC) is a daughterboard that is only 3" high and either attaches onto an AdvancedTCA card or plugs directly into a MicroTCA cabinet. AdvancedMC cards and MicroTCA backplanes provide a small form factor version of AdvancedTCA. See PICMG.

An AdvancedTCA "Shelf"
Designed to fit into a 19" wide rack, this shelf (cabinet) from Schroff has 12 ATCA node slots and two hub slots (middle). The hub slots provide a dual star configuration to the nodes. (Image courtesy of Schroff Electronic Solutions, www.schroff.us)


The Smaller Form Factor
This PICO-1US is a MicroTCA development and test system from CorEdge Networks. It includes a controller and slots for two single AMC cards or one double-wide card. (Image courtesy of CorEdge Networks, Inc., www.coredgenetworks.com)


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The AdvancedTCA Summit "Best of Show Award" recognizes innovative products that demonstrate central use of Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA[R]) and offer significant technical and business benefits.
Astute Networks, an industry-leader in the development of high performance networked storage solutions for mission-critical applications, received the Best Newcomer Product award from the AdvancedTCA Summit Conference in Santa Clara, California.
amp; SAN DIEGO -- NMS Communications (NASDAQ: NMSS), a leading provider of applications and platforms for value-added services and Kontron, a leading global provider of open modular solutions for the communications market, jointly demonstrated interoperability between the NMS's MG 7000A AdvancedTCA media processing blade and Kontron's AdvancedTCA processor and switch platform elements at the Connect Conference in Boston this month.
 
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