| The telecom world certainly is at the forefront of | | | | "cousin" MicroTCA holds a lot of promise, but has |
| many industrial network, embedded computing | | | | some limitations in terms of the breadth of Telco |
| and content management technical innovations. | | | | cards available. CompactPCI certainly has proven |
| We all have seen the ads on TV, on-line and on | | | | itself over the years in these types of |
| our Blackberrys, I-Phones and now our I-Pads | | | | applications, but cPCI hardware tends to lack the |
| about how this service or that service provides | | | | hardware uniformity of ATCA and uTCA |
| you with the latest in 3G, 4G; and stay tuned | | | | platforms. So, what is the answer to this |
| folks, 10G wireless communications. | | | | hardware dilemma? |
| On top of these network advancements, you can | | | | Good ol' edge card-based computing solutions |
| add an explosion of audio and video content | | | | offer a high degree of system scalability and |
| applications like: conferencing, call centers, | | | | flexibility at very attractive price points. For |
| interactive voice response (IVR) servers, media | | | | example, the Trenton TRC6001 is a 6U |
| and signaling gateways. It's enough to make | | | | rackmount computer built on the PICMG 1.3 |
| your head hurt figuring out how you're going to | | | | system architecture. |
| meet the needs of the new networks and the | | | | The edge card computing architecture allows you |
| latest converged telephony solutions while still | | | | to mix n' match COTS board hardware to meet |
| maintaining the older applications and networks all | | | | a wide variety of network and Telco content |
| with the same or reduced hardware budget. | | | | apps. The ability to choose different hardware |
| New telecom platform architecture hardware like | | | | to meet past, current and future |
| AdvancedTCA (ATCA) certainly meets all of the | | | | telecommunication needs makes systems like the |
| technical challenges of the latest telecom | | | | Trenton TRC6001 an ideal hardware platform |
| applications, but at steep hardware and | | | | choice in converged media applications. |
| infrastructure costs. ATCA's hardware platform | | | | |