Kontron, a global leader in embedded computing technology, has announced the full production availability of its 10G ATCA open modular platform OM9141-10G, featuring new advanced and faster bladed data transport, and switching and system management hardware.

The's 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ATCA open modular platform is a starting point for telecom equipment manufacturers to build on a common platform a multitude of new equipment configurations using CPU,NPU,DSP, storage and specialised 3rd-party ATCA-based line cards that meet the requirements for 3G,4G LTE, WiMAX, GPON, IPTV and carrier cloud network elements.

The 10G ATCA switch represents Kontron 's sixth generation in ATCA switching products, and supports 14x 10GbE nodes and one redundant hub to meet NEBS and ETSI standards. The switch is compatible with the Kontron Rear Transition Module RTM8940 which supports Synchronous Ethernet with up to 80Gbps uplink capability on the Fabric Interface - 2x QSFP configured as 8x 10G uplinks using 2 active copper cables;or,1x QSFP configured as 4x 10G using one active copper cable, plus 4x SFP+uplinks.Telco clocking is standard via the RTM and Kontron offers the option to remove the QSFP uplinks and/or Telco clocking on demand.

Kontron has also announced the availability of the second generation of its AMC Packet Processor module AM4211 for MicroTCA platforms with the Cavium 10-core OCTEON II cn6645 series. For telecom equipment manufacturers, the AMC module represents a 40 percent increase in performance for any new designs of security and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), network applications for SNOW 3G and KASUMI, TCP/IP packet processing acceleration and QoS that are integrated into eNodeB base stations and other types of network security and test and measurement applications for LTE networks.

The combination of Cavium hardware acceleration engines and production-ready Cavium TurboDPI software ensures that the Kontron AM4211 is available as an "out -of-the-box " DPI card for application system developers who require 10GbE wire-speed performance of various deep packet inspection (DPI) functions. This includes five main DPI categories: protocol analysis/application recognition; anti-malware/ anti-virus; application performance management; network intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS); and URL filtering.

(Contact: Ms Priyanca Gopi, Marketing Co-ordinator, Kontron Technology India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore. Tel: 080-40831004. Fax: 91-80-40831001, Email; priyanca.gopi@kontron.in)