ATCA vs. Blade Servers

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ATCA vs. Blade Servers

• A battle rages for your next generation hardware
  platform (H-01)

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AudioCodes at a Glance

• 13 Years of Operation
• Focused on VoP Media Gateway Media Server
  Technology and Systems
• Adding Session Border controller
• Over 15 Million Channels Shipped to Over 75
  Countries
• Leader in Innovation and Quality of VoP Solutions
• Executing, Profitable and Growing
• NASDAQ AUDC Public since 1999
• Over 4 years of consecutive quarterly growth
• Improving Operating Model, 13 of Sales
• 143M in Cash
• 730 Employees and Growing
• Global Presence
• HQ RD in Israel
• RD extensions in the USA (NC, NJ, CA, TX) and
  the UK
• Sales Support Offices in US (7 offices),
  Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, UK, Germany,
  Russia, China, Singapore, India, Korea, Japan

• Employee Geographical Breakdown
• Nth Sth America 240
• EMEA 470
• APAC 22

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A Battle Rages
Blade Servers
ATCA
Telecom Applications Market
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ATCA What is it?

• Platform for both telecom and computing
  applications
• High Availability features
• Specified by PCI Industrial Computers
  Manufacturers Group (PICMG 3.0)
• Successor to cPCI
• ETSI and NEBS-ready
• Many redundancy features
• Highly Scalable
• Centralized management

Alliance Systems ATCA Chassis
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ATCA Physical Form Factor

• Dimensions
• Front board size 8U x 280 mm
• Rear board size 8U x 70 mm
• Connects directly to front board

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ATCA Benefits for Telecom

• Larger physical board
• More usable board space
• 200W / board
• Faster / more processors
• Improved mechanical design
• Better heat dissipation
• Interface to rear transition modules
• 1Gbps Base Interface
• Choice of Fabric Interfaces
• Ethernet, Fibre Channel, StarFabric,
  PCI-Express, RapidIO
• Separate IPMI management

AudioCodes TP-12610
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ATCA vs. CPCI
Attribute PICMG 2.16 (cPCI/CPSB) PICMG 3 ATCA
Size 6U x 160mm x .8 57 sq in 8U x 280mm x 1.2 140 sq in
Mezzanine 2 x PMC 4 x PMC 8x AMC
Power 35-50W, central converter 5/12/3.3V on backplane 150-200W, distributed converter Dual 48V on Backplane
Bandwidth 38 Gb/s 2.4 Tb/s
Managment OK Advanced
Clocks, update bus No Yes
Regulatory conformance Vendor specific In-standrad
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ATCA Interfaces

• Zone 1
• Power Dual 48V, distributed conversion
• Management Dual redundant IPMB
• Keying
• Zone 2
• Base interface Dual star GBETH for control
  (CPSB like)
• Fabric interface PICMG 3.X
• Update channel between adjacent slots for 11
  redundancy
• Clocks 8KHz,19.4MHz,GP, dual redundant
• Zone 3
• Vendor-specific Rear connections
• Backplane is open

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ATCA Fabric Interface Types

• The Fabric is Dedicated for Bearer Data
• Packet voice (IP/ATM)
• TDM voice (H110 - like)
• PICMG 3.X
• 3.1 Ethernet and Fiber Channel 1GBit/s
• Very common and widely supported
• TDM and ATM support problematic
• 3.2 InfiniBand, 2.5Gb/s
• 3.3 StarFabric, 2.5Gb/s
• Designated for TDM, Packet and PCI transport
• Questionable availability so far
• Supported by StarGen only
• 3.4 PCI-Express Advanced Switching
• Targeted to all types of Fabric applications
• PCI-express Widely supported Driven by PC
  industry
• Sponsored by Intel, Alcatel, Siemens etc.
• Chipsets still NA
• 3.5 RapidIO Advanced Fabric Interface, 2Gb/s

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ATCA Market Forecast
Merchant ATCA CPU Blades, Currentand Projected
Markets,2005-2010(US in Millions) 2005-2010
CAGR 88.27
Source VDC
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Advanced Mezzanine Card

• Modular hot-swap cards
• Processor Resources
• DSP Resources
• Packet Processors
• PSTN Network Interfaces
• WAN Interfaces
• Serial Interfaces
• Disk storage
• and more

GE Fanuc Processor AMC
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Advanced Mezzanine Card

• Promise of Mix-n-match
• CPU Blades
• Carrier Blades
• Enables one-blade applications
• Core of the MicroTCA architecture

Diagram courtesy PICMG
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MicroTCA

• Platform to host multiple AMCs
• Range of Sizes
• Single wide
• Double wide
• Applications
• Telecommunications
• Military
• Industrial

GE Fanuc MicroTCA Chassis
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Blade Servers

• Packaging multiple serversinto one physical
  chassis,sharing common storagenetworking, and
  management resources.
• Value Proposition
• Reduces cabling/clutter
• Reduces power consumption
• Easier to manage
• Simplifies upgrades/replacements
• Focus is on Servers
• Manufactured by IBM, Intel, Dell, HP, Sun
• Mostly proprietary
• Little interoperability between vendors

IBM BladeCenter
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Blade Server Market
Incompatible
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Blade Server Market
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Chassis Options
BladeCenter HT
BladeCenter T
BladeCenter
BladeCenter H
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Resources Available

• For IBM BladeServer

IBM PCI Expansion Unit (PEU)
AudioCodes TP-1650 Media Gateway
GE Fanuc AMC Carrier
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Market Situation
Cost
Available Software Applications
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Comparison ATCA vs. Blade Servers
Feature / Capability ATCA Blade Servers
Commercial Volumes No Yes
Modular (AMC / MicroTCA) Yes Limited
Enterprise and Telco versions No Yes
Chassis Management Yes Yes
Telecom-friendly Rear Transition Modules Yes Limited
NEBS Yes Some
Interoperability / Open Specification High Low
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Where will they fit?
Telecom Applications ATCA Fit Blade Server Fit
Billing / Management Too expensive Excellent
Applications Good Good
Access / Edge Excellent Poor
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Other Interesting Facts

• Intel is investing heavily in ATCA
• Sun abandon their proprietary blade server and
  has adopted ATCA
• HP has strong telecom history/partnerships
• HP has struck a deal with Intel to deliver ATCA
• IBM has opened up the BladeCenter specification
  via IEEE and Blade.org
• IBM is aggressively workingwith a range of ISV
  partners

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Questions?
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