Advantech Now Using Dual Processor ATCA Blades, Network Appliances with Xeon Processor

Advantech (News - Alert) is now shipping ATCA blades and network appliances which use Intel’s (News - Alert) Xeon processor E5-2600 family. The products are being sent to network equipment providers and telecom equipment makers for use in next generation platforms, the company said. The product line, formerly named Romley-EP, offers improved and quicker performance, and increased memory, the company added.

One example is Advantech's MIC-5332 dual processor ATCA blade, which has full support for the Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and Intel QuickAssist Technology. The blade uses a Fabric Mezzanine Module (FMM), which has advantages over COTS platforms or in-house designs, the company said.

Also announced was the FWA-6510 Network Appliance (News - Alert) Series, which features two Intel Xeon processors E5-2600 that have 16 physical cores.

“A key aspect of workload consolidation on a single architecture is software reuse. With Advantech's scalable hardware platform ranging from appliances to high-end ATCA systems customers have the foundation for greater efficiencies, lower time-to-market and reduced life cycle management costs,” Peter Marek, director of x86 solutions at Advantech's Networks and Communications Group, said in a company statement.

He added, “With a single-architecture running control and data plane workloads, the re-use of hardware and software components makes it easy to apply them to new network elements or different Intel processors. It also facilitates the implementation of adaptable and software configurable network elements.”

There are many benefits from the new products, according to the company. 

“Faced with increasing CapEx and OpEx, service providers are looking to telecom and networking OEMs to deliver optimized cost/performance ratios and greater energy efficiencies,” Steve Price, director of Marketing at Intel's Intelligent Systems Group, added in the statement. “Now they have a truly compelling architecture that offers scalable platform choices for consolidating workloads on Intel architecture, which dramatically reduces development effort, power consumption and time-to-market.”

Also, the MIC-5332, FWA-6510 and Deep Packet One (News - Alert) Platforms can now be ordered.

In other company news, 6WIND recently expanded its 6WINDGate packet processing software and it can be deployed to more Advantech systems, TMCnet said.

Advantech was started in 1983. The company is broken into Branded & Solution Business and Embedded Design-In Business sections. Advantech operates in 22 countries.