Centellis 4440 Platform Core

The Emerson Network Power Centellis™ 4440 AdvancedTCA^® (ATCA) platform core is specifically designed to address the unique carrier-grade requirements of the telecommunications industry. Application examples include wireless infrastructure, packetized voice, wireline data, and cable network head-end network element. Highly integrated and verified hardware and software components, reduced development costs and accelerating time-to-market allow network equipment providers (NEPS) to focus their development resources on critical, differentiating features that provide a competitive advantage.

The heart of the Centellis 4440 platform core is the AXP1440 AdvancedTCA (ATCA) shelf and includes redundant shelf manager and alarm modules, redundant power entry modules (PEMs) and two fan tray modules. The AXP1440 shelf features a 40GbE “KR-Ready” backplane. This allows for 40Gbps communication across the PICMG 3.1 fabric interface. Using this technology, it is possible to upgrade to 40GbE capable switch and payload blades in the future without replacing the shelf infrastructure. This is becoming increasingly important as dataplane applications start migrating to ATCA based platforms. Equally important is the thermal characteristics of the AXP1440 shelf. It is designed to meet the CP-TA B.4 thermal profile, the highest level possible. As processor technology advances, thermal (heat dissipation) is one of the industry's largest challenges – no other ATCA shelf on the market has better thermal characteristics than the AXP1440.

Another important element of the Centellis 4440 platform cores are the variety of system controller and switching blades available. The Centellis 4440, R1.0 integrates a cost-effective, field proven 10GbE switch blade – the ATCA-F120.   The Centellis 4440, R2.0 integrates the industry leading 40GbE switch blade – the ATCA-F140. Both switch blades combine PICMG compliant base and fabric interface switching functionality with AMC slots for additional processing and/or local storage. Assuming an HA environment with redundant switch blades, combining these key functions provides customers with two additional slots for billable applications.

A variety of payload blades, AMCs and accessory products are available for the Centellis 4440 platform cores depending on application requirements.