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Strategies for Developing Multi-Function IMS Systems
Service providers want a common platform that supports voice, data and video services while satisfying requirements imposed by legacy systems. This trend is prompting great interest in IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), which is the latest advancement in standards-based architecture for fixed and mobile communications. With rising competition, both large and small service providers expect costeffective, carrier-grade network elements.
Under incredible pressure, equipment manufacturers are responding with multi-function systems, often one box that easily scales capacity and combines various network elements. A single, integrated platform can address different types of customers while decreasing development costs, reducing time-to-market and increasing availability.
This white paper outlines strategies to reduce the cost and complexity of multi-function IMS system design. An open modular system, using advanced hardware design, Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) operating systems and high availability (HA) and management software, can produce high-performance network elements that cost less, are modular and ship more quickly.
Pages: 9 | Date: 02-28-2008 | 
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ATCA: A Practical PerspectiveGeorge Shenoda
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture, known as ATCA, is a new system form factor defined by the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG) to provide an industry standard platform that enables building telecommunication grade products in a multi-vendor compatible environment. This form factor is becoming a popular standard for such products because of the promising economical and functional advantages it is positioned to offer.
ATCA is a set of documents specifying all the electrical and mechanical requirements necessary to create an industry standard platform. This documentation includes specifications for platform elements such as chassis dimensions, backplane properties, module size and backplane interface specifications, power rating, cooling, etc. The specifications are designated the series 3.xx as opposed to 2.xx for the Compact PCI specified earlier by the same body.
Pages: 5 | Date: 11-01-2004 | Download PDF
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Custom Carriers Maximize the COM Express Advantage
In the current era of business management, companies of all sizes work toward the goal of tightly managing resources, as a means to maximize profitability. There has been a wave of downsizing and outsourcing in the past years, as in a variation on the theme of just-in-time supply chains, many organizations use contractors and other contingent workers extensively to manage peak requirements. This strategy allows companies to retain a skilled and focused employee base that can be kept stable during downturns.However, as a result of this strategy, the downsizing and outsourcing can create a knowledge gap within the core permanent employees of companies and increase dependence upon contractors and other external resources...
Pages: 8 | Date: 12-19-2007 | Download PDF
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COM Express: The Next Generation Computer on Module StandardBob Pebly
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This White Paper outlines Computer on Module advantages and discusses the ripple effect movements from legacy and parallel bus interfaces to high-speed differential serial interconnects have had on standard form factors. The concept of a Computer on Module, or COM, is not new within the embedded computer industry. Various COM solutions and implementations have been around for years, but none ever took hold as a dominant or de facto standard within the embedded computer industry. Conceptually, the function and benefits of a COM are straightforward. Modularize the processor, North bridge, South bridge, memory, and Flash of a typical PC in a compact, highly integrated fashion and you have a COM. The key advantage of the COM in a typical embedded design is that the most rapidly changing part of the design, the portion riding along on Moore’s law, is modularized and decoupled from the rest of the system design. By segmenting the processor complex onto a COM module, embedded designers can focus on the key features and devices within their systems and design an embedded COM carrier board free from the rigors of keeping pace with the continuous board turns of the commercial PC industry.
Taking advantage of a fragmented embedded market and technological disruptions within the PC industry, the PICMG COM Express specification defines a standard COM form factor that brings modularity and standardization to unite embedded COM designs in the future.
Pages: 6 | Date: 06-01-2005 | Download PDF
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| Custom Carriers Maximize the COM Express Advantage | 12-19-2007 | 8 |  |
| Create Hybrid Real-Time and General Purpose Multi-Core Systems | 10-17-2007 | 6 | |
| Multi-Core Processing & Virtualization: Enabling Cost Effective Servers | 09-11-2007 | 8 | |
| Mini-ITX: Good Things in Small Packages | 04-20-2007 | 6 | |
| Dual-Core Performance on COM Express | 04-20-2007 | 7 | |
| Standards-Based System for High-End Imaging Applications | 10-06-2006 | 7 | |
| Profits Are Made in Real Time | 10-06-2006 | 6 | |
| COM Express Versus ETX | 10-06-2006 | 5 | |
| Successful Carrier Card Design for COM Express: Introduction to Thermal Design Consid... | 01-01-2006 | 16 | |
| Successful Carrier Card Design for COM Express: Introduction to High Speed Serial Bus... | 09-01-2005 | 14 | |
| COM Express: The Next Generation Computer on Module Standard | 06-01-2005 | 6 | |
