Sun Microsystems has unveiled its new carrier-grade Netra AdvancedTCA (ATCA) blade server family, which according to the company includes the world's first UltraSPARC and AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA blades. The company also claims that "the Sun Netra ATCA blade server offers up to 30% percent better compute density and up to 10% percent more performance as compared to Intel-based ATCA blade products and is designed for six-9's reliability, just seconds of downtime a year."
Sun's ATCA blade server family offers greater flexibility for network equipment providers (NEPs) and service providers worldwide, delivering higher service availability, faster time to market, reduced development costs and lower total cost of operations. In addition, Sun Netra ATCA blade server gives customers more choice by allowing them to mix-and-match processors and carrier-grade operating systems in the same server and is compatible with other Sun servers, StorEdge storage, Java Enterprise System middleware and thousands of Solaris Operating System applications.
Based on open PICMG 3.x and Service Availability Forum (SAF) standards, the new Netra ATCA blade server family includes: the Netra CT900 blade server, a 12U/14 slot ATCA blade server; the Netra CP3010 blade, a dual UltraSPARC IIIi processor-based ATCA blade; the Netra CP3020 blade, Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA blade; the SAF-compliant Netra High Availability Suite (NHAS) and Netra Blade Management Suite; and a redundant Gigabit Ethernet Switch Blade. In addition, Sun's Netra ATCA blade server will offer a choice of carrier grade operating systems - Solaris 10 and MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) supported in the same ATCA blade server.
The Netra CT900 ATCA blade server and Netra CP3010 UltraSPARC ATCA blade are already shipping and the first units have been delivered to NEP and carrier customers worldwide. The Netra CP3020 AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA blade and Netra High Availability Suite (NHAS) 3.0 are scheduled to ship in second quarter of 2006.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, Netra, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. AMD, AMD Opteron, the AMD arrow logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices.
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