ADVANTECH has released the ATCA-7310 and NCPB-2320 packet processing engines, blades based on the Cavium Networks CN6880 OCTEON II processor.
The ATCA blade features dual processors 32 MIPS64 cores for a total of 64 cores per blade.
While the higher-end ATCA is targeted at high-end control, service and dataplane applications in 4G/LTE networks, the Packetarium NCPB PPE is optimised for converged voice, video and data applications typical of cloud computing and security applications such as Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI).
The ATCA blade is the first of the series based on the Cavium OCTEON processor. It takes advantage of Advantech’s technology reuse strategy, implementing processor architectures in multiple form factors allowing customers to choose platforms with the best price and performance point for their specific applications.
Advantech says the OCTEON II 68XX is the first 64-bit processor to provide 48 GHz of compute power on a single chip across 32 cores, and provides triple the GHz per chip and 2 to 5 times better performance/watt than other available standards-based solutions.
The ATCA-7310 supports up to 64GB of DDR3-1066 memory with a Broadcom BCM56841 40GbE switch. Four 10G/40G Fabric interfaces (40GBaseKR4, 10GBaseKX4) are supported with 12 lanes of 10GbE to the RTM for uplinks.
The NCPB-2320 supports up to 32GB of DDR3-1333 memory. Control plane functionality is provided by two PCIe x4 interfaces and data plane capabilities are supported by two 4x SGMII, 1x XAUI or 1x DXAUI depending on the carrier.