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Tuesday February 20, 4:00 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Delivers New Compact PCI Products Giving
OEMs a Modular Approach To Building Carrier Grade Solutions
New cPCI Boards Provide Modularity and Scalability for Applications Requiring Reliability and
Continuous Uptime
CANNES, France, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the growing demand for fast-to-market telecom and Internet
products and services, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - news)introduced new board products that continue delivery of
Sun's CP2000 high availability (HA) initiative of enabling communications and network equipment providers to build
customized highly-available, carrier-grade systems. Unveiled at the GSM World Congress today, the Netra CP2040, CP2060
and CP2080 CompactPCI (cPCI) board-level products enable rapid deployment of network infrastructure to give NEPs
complete end-to-end solutions that delivers continuous uptime for their customers.
In the telecom, wireless and service provider space, a scalable architecture is needed to meet ever-changing market demands.
To quickly add new services, extend existing ones and add more users, companies need a scalable hardware and software
infrastructure. The current trend is toward rackmount solutions, where board-based services can be quickly added and
deployed.
As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner, Sun delivers carrier-grade network server platforms based on the
Solaris(TM) Operating Environment and Chorus(TM) real-time Operating System that meet the demands for continuous
uptime, massive scalability and an integrated hardware and software stack around which customers can quickly construct
high-availability systems to meet existing and future needs.
The Netra CP2040 is a universal cPCI board designed to function as a system controller, an alternate system controller or a
non-system slot board for the CP2000 platform. The Netra CP2060 and CP2080 boards offer customers flexible non-system
slot I/O solutions for satellite processing. These boards are designed for use in both the wireless and wireline network
infrastructure and can be used to build BSC, MSC, IP telephony, softswitch and media gateway platforms as well as GPRS,
ATM, cross connect and optical switching solutions.
Both cPCI board offerings incorporate essential redundancy features, including hot swap, dual ethernet and Intelligent
Peripheral Management Interface (IPMI) signaling support. With the Netra CP2040 and Netra CP2060/80 products, Sun is
introducing support for PCI Mezzanine Cards (PMC), which will allow customers to build higher density solutions. In addition,
the boards support Sun Management Center software, which provides system-level monitoring and management and is
designed to increase service levels and lower the total cost of operation.
``The release of Netra CP2040 and CP2060 represents Sun's entrance into the rest of the rack,'' said Greg Papadopoulos,
chief technology officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ``It also solidifies our foothold in this market by expanding our scalable
UltraSPARC architecture by offering a board for every slot.''
The Right Board in the Right Place
The entire CP2000 platform combines Sun's UltraSPARC(TM) IIe processor and a choice of either the Solaris Operating
Environment or ChorusOS real-time operating system. Solaris is the UNIX operating system of choice because of its proven
64-bit environment. The Solaris 8 Operating Environment supports advanced HA requirements, including dynamic
reconfiguration and alternate pathing to ensure optimal availability.
ChorusOS real-time operating system is highly scalable and reliable and designed for the embedded marketplace. It provides
the ideal platform to best exploit the capabilities of Sun's cPCI hardware in embedded products, with real-time performance
and the support of high availability features like the hot swap of boards. Together, the Chorus and Solaris operating systems
provide the foundation for building next-generation carrier grade solutions. Leveraging common APIs, they permit carriers to
cover a large spectrum of needs, from switching to computing with solutions, complementing Sun's cPCI framework.
The 500 MHz Netra CP2040 includes the following features:
Flexible I/O interface via PMC slot
Dual SCSI for clustered solutions
Dual Ethernet for redundancy
Ability to be deployed in any slot in the server rack; FRU management
made easy
IPMI system management and environmental monitoring; easy to access power, temperature and CPU diagnostic
information
Redundant host capabilities for SC failover
2GB/1 slot for high-density solutions
HA hot swap support used as either an SC or a non-system slot board
The Netra CP2060 (500 MHz, 512 MB) and CP2080 boards feature:
Non-system slot board with I/O flexibility
2 PMC slots for customizable I/O (CP2060)
Dual Ethernets
Soldered-on board memory -- cPCI configured to go (CP2060)
IPMI system management and environmental monitoring
Memory expansion that can give customers up to 2GB in a single slot
(CP2080)
HA hot swap support
``LG Electronics selected the Netra CP2000 boards for use in our advanced intelligent network (AIN) products to deliver a
carrier-grade, highly available product to our customers, including Korea Telecom, DACOM and Hanaro Telecom,'' said
Jae-ho Jung, senior research engineer, Core Network Technology Department, LG Electronics. ``We believe strongly in Sun's
HA initiatives and are looking forward to creating reliable platforms for our customers.''
Sun has numerous third-party alliances, which include channel partners, master value-added integrators and independent
hardware and software vendors, all of which enable customers to put together a complete OEM solution. Industry-leading
vendors including Aculab, Blue Wave Systems, Brooktrout, Interphase, LSI Logic, Natural MicroSystems, Performance
Technology, SBE, Ulticom and Znyx Networks are planning to work on Solaris Ready certified telecommunications products
and technology to complement Suns two new board product lines.
Pricing and Availability
The Netra CP2060 and CP2080 products will be available in late March through Sun's existing sales channels. The Netra
CP2040 will be available in May. Suns new cPCI products provide board-level solutions for under $2,000. |
