MicroTCA White Papers

Intel Corporation

• A Solar-Powered WiMAX Base Station Solution
  This applicaton note presents a feasibility study on using solar power to operate a WiMAX base station, utilizing the Intel NetStructure® WiMAX Baseband Card. It describes operational requirements and power consumption, battery and solar panel options, and investment payoff.
• Accelerating the Transformation
  Intel's Leadership in Embedded Systems, Communications and Networking Maximizes Innovation and Choice for Network-Centric Warfare
• Intel Building Blocks for Military, Aerospace and Government Applications
  Military solutions guide that highlights AdvancedMC and MicroTCA
  solutions from Concurrent, Kontron, Motorola and GE Fanuc (see page 6)
• Ruggedized MicroTCA: A Cost-Effective Solution for Defense/Aerospace Applications
  A ruggedized version of MicroTCA provides the glue for marrying WiMAX and other networking schemes into the military's transition to network-centric operations.

Motorola

• AdvancedTCA and beyond in '007: Licensed for killer apps?
  As 2006 comes to a close, it seems appropriate to consider what 2007 and beyond will bring for the AdvancedTCA ecosystem. OpenSystems Publishing Editorial Director Joe Pavlat spoke with John Fryer and Shlomo Pri-Tal of Motorola.
• Bandwidth and Cost Drive ATCA/MicroTCA Fabric Choice
  Increasing bandwidth demands are bringing ATCA and MicroTCA into military developers' mindshare. Choosing a switch fabric flavor for those platforms calls for careful consideration.
• Converging Technologies Deliver Next-Generation Embedded Solutions
  Originally conceived as a companion technology for ATCA, the AdvancedMC form-factor is proving to be a versatile building block for systems architectures that combine a variety of new and legacy technologies.
• Creating a mainstream market for standards-based platforms
  The Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) was formed to address the interoperability certification requirements in all aspects of communication platform
  interoperability, ranging from the physical environmental attributes of a module through the services of its operating system to the
  ability of the high availability middleware to cooperate with its peers.
• MicroTCA - a new standard for the battlefield
  Rob Persons makes the case here for MicroTCA as a viable architecture for many new military systems such as the Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T).
• MicroTCA: MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, AdvancedTCA
  A discussion with Paul Virgo, Motorola, about the new specifications for MicroTCA.
• Ruggedizing MicroTCA: Going Beyond the Central Office
  The use of AMC and MicroTCA in communications edge applications will drive economies of scale that will also make them attractive to the defense and aerospace markets through ruggedization, making them also useful for commercial rugged applications.
• Taking MicroTCA to the front line
  Rob Persons of Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing Group looks at the relevance of MicroTCA to military developers.
• What's next for the communications server? Identifying and targeting the application classes of common platforms in next-generation networks
  The authors look at the future of communications servers, touching on a number of issues, from the cost reduction challenges facing Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) to applications' journeying from the data center to the network environment and the impact on servers.
• What's riding on the shoulders of communications servers
  Here John and Shreekant make the case for communications servers speeding up the development of converged services while driving down costs.

GE Fanuc Embedded Systems

• MicroTCA System Management
  Thanks to its close family ties to AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA was endowed with robust management capabilities right from the start. These capabilities include temperature and voltage monitoring, FRU insertion and removal, and Electronic Keying.
  
  MicroTCA adds certain options for management that AdvancedTCA does not offer, which should be exciting news for anyone designing MicroTCA systems. Dedicated system configuration storage on the shelf, direct cooling and power module management are examples of these features.
• Real World Speeds and Feeds in ATCA applications
  Interoperability is the key to successfully augmenting the features and capabilities of ATCA systems with Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AdvancedMCs(tm)) or PCI Mezzanine Cards (PMCs). However, interoperability can be difficult to achieve and even more difficult to evaluate, so GE Fanuc Embedded Systems and Intel® Corporation decided to jointly build and test several AdvancedTCA systems.
  
  By documenting system performance, our goal was to offer definitive assurance of interoperability. Our test platforms used PMC and AdvancedMC(tm) modules from GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, compute blades from Intel® Corporation and industry standard benchmarking tools.
  
  This paper details several test system setups and provides the results of our testing.

Interphase Corporation

• I-TDM: Supporting TDM Voice in the Age of MictoTCA and AdvancedTCA
  The demand for voice and video over IP along with the adoption of IP Multimedia Services (IMS) architecture for next generation networks are driving the trend towards standardization of network components based on standard form factors.
  
  Many telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) that have traditionally designed proprietary platforms internally are now seeking off-the-shelf components based on standard telecom grade and high-capacity form factors. As a result, MicroTCA (uTCA) and AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platforms are currently being adopted in the market, with large deployment numbers predicted for 2007 onward.

ZNYX Networks

• Network Level Resiliency for High Availability (HA) in Ethernet Networks
  This white paper discusses network
  level availability and how to create High Availability (HA) embedded systems with ZNYX
  Networks OpenArchitect/HA Suite.
• OpenArchitect Operating Environment
  This document is a brief discussion of the key capabilities and features of OpenArchitectTM.
  OpenArchitectTM (OA) is ZNYX Networks Ethernet switch operating environment.
• OpenArchitect® / Security Gateway: Embedded Network Security in an ATCA chasis