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News & Events : Press Releases : HA1069

General Micro Systems Announces Another Industry First: PICMG 2.16 Compliant, High Availability CompactPCI System for Telecom Applications

Ethernet Communication Across cPCI Packet Switching Backplane, with Redundant System Masters, Redundant Switch Fabric Boards, Redundant Power, and up to 15 Hot Swap Peripheral Nodes.

September 5, 2001
Boston, MA, Embedded Systems Conference .

General Micro Systems (GMS) today demonstrated the new HA1069 “Eagle”, CompactPCI (cPCI) High Availability System. The Eagle is officially the first system to have been demonstrated in public, which is compliant with the newly ratified PICMG 2.16 specification for a cPCI Packet Switching Backplane (cPSB). Additionally, the Eagle is the industry’s first high availability cPSB system to offer 6-nines of reliability. With provisions for redundant system masters, redundant PICMG 2.16 switch fabric boards, and redundant power supplies and fans, the 21-slot chassis can be configured a number of ways, including the use of the H.110 telephony bus.

The future of cPCI and multi-computer systems is cPSB. The Eagle is designed for highly efficient Ethernet communication across the cPSB backplane, with or without use of the PCI bus. PICMG 2.16 compliant cPCI single board computer (SBC) nodes can be used with PICMG 2.16 compliant switches for high-availability telecommunications applications with the ease of Ethernet connectivity. The Eagle can also be configured to take advantage of the fail-over and load-sharing software currently being developed in the market, with user defined options including up to four 10/100Base-Tx Ethernet channels per SBC across the backplane. And, up to 9 Gigabits per second transfer rates across the backplane.

“The Eagle is the industry’s most reliable and versatile cPSB system,” said Ali Haghgoo, Telecom Products Manager of General Micro Systems. “Eagle’s hot-swapability for SBC’s, switch fabric boards, power supplies, and even system cooling fans, make it ideal for high availability telecom applications like web and Internet servers. It’s provisioned for multiple configurations for a long product life cycle, is IPMI ready, and was engineered to meet industry compliance standards such as ETSI and NEBS.”

The Eagle cPSB system has user definable configurations, which include a cPCI backplane with H.110, system master, up to 15 node slots, and power and fabric switch redundancy. Another version of the configuration above would be a PCI-less system (passive cPCI backplane). The system maintains the GMS tradition of processor independence and extensive I/O access. The Eagle is also a standard rack mountable 19” cPCI 9U chassis design.

Software support for GMS PICMG 2.16 compliant SBC nodes include Windows NT/2000, VxWorks, Linux and Solaris.

Call 1-800-307-4863 to obtain pricing and availability.

 
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