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® VOLUME 11 • NUMBER 9 DECEMBER 2007 CompactPCI www.compactpci-systems.com ® www.advancedtca-systems.com and AdvancedTCA Systems The Magazine for Developers of Open Communication, Industrial, and Rugged Systems COLUMNS PRODUCTS 8 Editor’s Foreword AdvancedTCA Summit 2007 19 AdvancedMCs, PrAMCs, Carriers By Joe Pavlat Sponsored by: Adax,® Inc. 41 Storage FEATURES 43 Blades/AdvancedTCA CompactPCI Sponsored by: Emerson Network Power; Sun Microsystems HIGH AVAILABILITY ® 10 Achieving high availability and management 50 Power andwith the latest standard COTS technologies By Dr. Asif Naseem, GoAhead Software 35 Connectors AdvancedTCA Sponsored by:Systems Harting Technology Group; CONEC FABRICS 18 Comparing Ethernet and RapidIO 55 Test & Development By Tom Roberts, Mercury Computer Systems 27 Enclosures/Packaging AdvancedTCA Sponsored by: Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions; Schroff 30 The critical importance of shelf management 73 VoIP in AdvancedTCA By Frank Fitzgerald, Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions 59 Integrated Systems Sponsored by: Alliance Systems; Kontron MicroTCA 67 MicroTCA 38 MicroTCA power module input connectors Sponsored by: CorEdge Networks; Motorola Inc. By Juergen Hahn-Barth, CONEC Corporation 23 Networking/Communications INTERVIEW 62 Speaking of middleware 71 PMCs, PrPMCs, Carriers Sponsored by: Xembedded, Inc. An interview with Jim Lawrence and Chris Lanfear, Enea 47 Switches WEB RESOURCES 51 Single Board Computers Subscribe to the magazine or E-letter at: Sponsored by: Aitech Defense Systems, Inc.; General Dynamics www.opensystems-publishing.com/subscriptions Industry news: COVER (Clockwise): Read: www.compactpci-systems.com/news The HDCIII is a high density SS7/ATM controller from ADAX (www.adax.com). The HDCIII provides Submit: www.opensystems-publishing.com/news/submit 8 E1/T1 trunks, simultaneous support for 248 MTP2 LSLs, HSLs, and SS7 ATM AAL5, and offers AMC, PMC, PCI-X and PCIe versions from a single driver. The superior scalability/flexibility makes it the Submit new products at: perfect choice for your SS7/ATM signaling needs. www.opensystems-publishing.com/vendors/submissions/np The MicroTCA MP-2000 is a 2U/13-slot prevalidated modular MicroTCA platform from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms (www.gefanucembedded.com). Preconfigured with processor, networking, storage, and graphics AdvancedMCs, its prevalidation guarantees interoperability and minimizes OpenSystems integration time. ™ Published by: Publishing HARTING’s con:card+ (www.harting.com) connectors feature the unique guidespring technology © 2007 OpenSystems Publishing and provide a new standard in mating reliability for AdvancedMC modules. ® CompactPCI, PICMG, AdvancedTCA, ATCA, MicroTCA, and their logos are registered trademarks General Dynamics Canada (www.gdcanada.com) Single Board Computers are battle-proven, high of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. performance, Intel®-based processor cards built for the world’s most demanding environments. TM AdvancedMC and CompactTCA are trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. © 2007 CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems Xembedded Inc’s (www.xembedded.com) XCPC-9100 CompactPCI Dual PMC carrier with 8-port All registered brands and trademarks in CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems are property of their Gigabit switch accepts PCM I/O modules and PMC processor modules, and its switch supports VLAN respective owners. configurations, making it a good platform for simulation engines, Edge processors and FPGAs. 4 / CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems / December 2007 ® OpenSystems Publishing™ OpenSystems Publishing CompactPCI ® Advertising/Business Office Regional Sales Managers and 30233 Jefferson Avenue Jerry Bleich AdvancedTCA Systems St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 New England Tel: 586-415-6500 n Fax: 586-415-4882 [email protected] A N OPEN S Y S TEM S PUBLIC A TI O N Vice President Marketing & Sales Ernest Godsey Patrick Hopper Central and Mountain States Communications Group [email protected] [email protected] Business Manager Barbara Quinlan n CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems ® Karen Layman Midwest/Southwest n CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Resource Guide [email protected] Compac n CompactPCI and AdvancedTCAtPCI E-letter Sales Group Denis Seger Editorial Director Joe Pavlat ® Southern California and [email protected] Dennis Doyle [email protected] AssistantA Managingdvan Editorce dAnneTCA Fisher Systems Senior Account Manager [email protected] Sydele Starr [email protected] Northern California Senior Editor (columns) Terri Thorson Tom Varcie [email protected] Senior Account Manager [email protected] Ron Taylor [email protected] Technology Editor Curt Schwaderer East Coast/Mid Atlantic [email protected] Doug Cordier [email protected] Account Manager Associate Editor Jennifer Hesse [email protected] [email protected] Andrea Stabile International Sales European Representative Hermann Strass Advertising/Marketing Coordinator Dan Aronovic [email protected] [email protected] Account Manager – Israel Copy Editor Robin DiPerna [email protected] Christine Long Senior Web Developer Konrad Witte E-marketing Manager Sam Fan [email protected] Account Manager – Asia Web Content Specialist Matt Avella [email protected] Creative Director Steph Sweet Art Director David Diomede Reprints and PDFs Graphic Coordinator Sandy Dionisio Nan Lamade: 800-259-0470 • [email protected] Circulation/Office Manager Phyllis Thompson [email protected] OpenSystems Publishing Editorial/Production office: 16872 E. 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Ave of the Fountains, Ste 203, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 6 / CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems / December 2007 Editor’s Foreword By Joe Pavlat CompactPCI & AdvancedTCA Systems AdvancedTCA Summit 2007 Welcome to the 2008 CompactPCI and major players like Nortel, delivering pro- It was refreshing to see the analysts AdvancedTCA Systems Buyer’s Guide. duction quantities of AdvancedTCA gear who presented at the Summit generally The products listed here speak to the to their customers. Most of these custom- now agree on market size and growth. growth of AdvancedTCA, the interest ers have now moved beyond the evalua- Eric Heikkila, Director of Embedded in MicroTCA, and the persistence of tion phase into deployment and further Hardware at Venture Development Cor- CompactPCI. design. There was also significant inter- poration, was one analyst who presented est at the Summit in MicroTCA from a his data (Figure 1). An event that also demonstrated con- variety of industries, including telecom, tinued interest and growth in these areas enterprise networking, medical equip- Eric thinks the combined AdvancedTCA took place in October. The third annual ment, instrumentation, and military/ and MicroTCA markets total $557M in AdvancedTCA Summit was held in Santa defense/aerospace systems. 2007, $979M in 2008, $1822M in 2009, Clara, California at the Convention Center. $2817M in 2010, and $3679M in 2011. Once again, Chairman Lance Leventhal Another sign that the AdvancedTCA You can download Eric’s presentation and his colleagues at Creative Concepts did market is growing up came from the and many others at the Summit’s web a fabulous job putting the event together, analysts who assess market size and site, www.advancedtcasummit.com. and everyone I talked to was very happy future growth. In the first few years after with it. Some highlights included: AdvancedTCA was developed, there In this issue was little actual market data and per- In this month’s issue, Frank Fitzgerald n 112 program participants and speakers haps more than a bit over-enthusiasm. of Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions n 4 keynote speeches n 5 short paper sessions n 6 industry expert panels