COTS ATCA platforms for satcomm
ProductJanuary 21, 2015
Experts at Radisys have designed their commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ATCA platforms for mobile voice and data satellite-communications. Recent installations include the Iridium upgrade of the ground-station infrastructure associated with its next generation global satellite constellation...
Experts at Radisys have designed their commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ATCA platforms for mobile voice and data satellite-communications. Recent installations include the Iridium upgrade of the ground-station infrastructure associated with its next generation global satellite constellation – called Iridium NEXT. The T-Series was chosen because it is a long-life COTS program, designed to be in service for a minimum of seven years. Moreover, the T-Series’ hardware-level redundancy features enable high availability for Iridium’s upgraded satellite array, with design features supporting plug-in hardware and software upgrades while the equipment is in-service.
The Radisys T-Series platform is based on an open-standards-based ATCA platform architecture that uses merchant silicon and open-source software to provide increased throughput. Iridium will be able to take advantage of deploying as many as five different applications on the Radisys T-Series. The T-40 Ultra is targeted at applications that necessitate high density performance. It has more than 1 Terabit of switching capacity and can provide more than 288 Intel cores. For mid-density node deployments, Radisys offers the T-40 Pro, which is used for policy enforcement, security, and service gateways applications. It has a 40G backplane and as many as four payload slots enabling a variety of network processors and compute resource blade options.
