ATCA vs. Blade ServersA battle rages for your next generation hardware platform (H-01)

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AudioCodes at a Glance

13 Years of Operation Focused on VoP Media Gateway & Media Server Technology and Systems

Adding Session Border controller

Over 15 Million Channels Shipped to Over 75 CountriesLeader in Innovation and Quality of VoP Solutions

Executing, Profitable and GrowingNASDAQ: AUDC; Public since 1999Over 4 years of consecutive quarterly growthImproving Operating Model, 13% of Sales$143M in Cash~ 730 Employees and Growing

• Global PresenceHQ & R&D in Israel;

R&D extensions in the USA (NC, NJ, CA, TX) and the UK

Sales & Support Offices in US (7 offices), Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, UK, Germany, Russia, China, Singapore, India, Korea, Japan

Employee Geographical Breakdown: Nth & Sth America 240 EMEA 470 APAC 22

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A Battle Rages

Blade ServersATCA

Telecom ApplicationsMarket

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ATCA – What is it?

• Platform for both telecom and computing applications• High Availability features• Specified by PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers

Group (PICMG 3.0)• Successor to cPCI• ETSI and NEBS-ready• Many redundancy features• Highly Scalable• Centralized management

Alliance Systems ATCA Chassis

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ATCA Physical Form Factor

• Dimensions:– Front board size 8U x 280 mm– Rear board size 8U x 70 mm

• Connects directly to front board

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ATCA – Benefits for Telecom

• Larger physical board– More usable board space

• 200W / board– Faster / more processors

• Improved mechanical design– Better heat dissipation– Interface to rear transition

modules

• 1Gbps Base Interface• Choice of Fabric Interfaces

– Ethernet, Fibre Channel, StarFabric, PCI-Express, RapidIO

• Separate IPMI managementAudioCodes TP-12610

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ATCA vs. CPCI

Attribute PICMG 2.16 (cPCI/CPSB) PICMG 3 ATCA

Size 6U x 160mm x .8” ; 57 sq in 8U x 280mm x 1.2”; 140 sq in

Mezzanine 2 x PMC 4 x PMC ; 8x AMC

Power 35-50W, central converter 5/12/3.3V on backplane

150-200W, distributed converter Dual 48V on Backplane

Bandwidth 38 Gb/s 2.4 Tb/s

Managment OK Advanced

Clocks, update bus No Yes

Regulatory conformance

Vendor specific In-standrad

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ATCA Interfaces

• Zone 1– Power – Dual 48V, distributed conversion– Management – Dual redundant IPMB– Keying

• Zone 2 – Base interface – Dual star GBETH for control (CPSB

like)– Fabric interface – PICMG 3.X– Update channel – between adjacent slots for 1+1

redundancy– Clocks – 8KHz,19.4MHz,GP,

dual redundant

• Zone 3 – Vendor-specific Rear connections– Backplane is open

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ATCA Fabric Interface Types

The Fabric is Dedicated for Bearer Data:– Packet voice (IP/ATM)– TDM voice (H110 - like)

PICMG 3.X – 3.1 – Ethernet and Fiber Channel – 1GBit/s

Very common and widely supportedo TDM and ATM support problematic

– 3.2 – InfiniBand, 2.5Gb/s– 3.3 – StarFabric, 2.5Gb/s

Designated for TDM, Packet and PCI transporto Questionable availability so faro Supported by StarGen only

– 3.4 – PCI-Express & Advanced Switching Targeted to all types of Fabric applications PCI-express Widely supported – Driven by PC industry Sponsored by Intel, Alcatel, Siemens etc.o Chipsets still NA

– 3.5 – RapidIO & Advanced Fabric Interface, 2Gb/s

The Big Question: Which one will dominate?

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ATCA Market Forecast

Merchant ATCA CPU Blades, Currentand Projected Markets,2005-2010

(US$ in Millions)2005-2010 CAGR: 88.27%

$130.2

$78.8

$41.2

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Source: VDC

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Advanced Mezzanine Card

• Modular hot-swap cards– Processor Resources– DSP Resources– Packet Processors– PSTN Network Interfaces– WAN Interfaces– Serial Interfaces– Disk storage– and more

GE FanucProcessor AMC

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Advanced Mezzanine Card

• Promise of Mix-n-match– CPU Blades– Carrier Blades

• Enables “one-blade” applications

• Core of the MicroTCA architecture

Diagram courtesy PICMG

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MicroTCA

• Platform to host multiple AMCs• Range of Sizes

– Single wide– Double wide

• Applications– Telecommunications– Military– Industrial

GE FanucMicroTCA Chassis

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Blade Servers

• Packaging multiple serversinto one physical chassis,sharing common storagenetworking, and management resources.

• Value Proposition– Reduces cabling/clutter– Reduces power consumption– Easier to manage– Simplifies upgrades/replacements

• Focus is on Servers• Manufactured by IBM, Intel, Dell, HP, Sun…• Mostly proprietary• Little interoperability between vendors

IBM BladeCenter

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Blade Server Market

Incompatible

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Blade Server Market

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Chassis Options

BladeCenter

BladeCenter T

BladeCenter H

BladeCenter HT

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Resources Available

For IBM BladeServer:

AudioCodesTP-1650 Media Gateway

IBM PCI Expansion Unit (PEU)

GE Fanuc AMC Carrier

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Market Situation

Cost

# Available Software Applications

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Comparison: ATCA vs. Blade Servers

Feature / Capability ATCABlade Servers

Commercial Volumes No Yes

Modular (AMC / MicroTCA) Yes Limited

Enterprise and Telco versions No Yes

Chassis Management Yes Yes

Telecom-friendly Rear Transition Modules

Yes Limited

NEBS Yes Some

Interoperability / Open Specification High Low

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Where will they fit?

Telecom Applications ATCA Fit Blade Server Fit

Billing / Management Too expensive Excellent

Applications Good Good

Access / Edge Excellent Poor

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Other Interesting Facts:

Intel is investing heavily in ATCA Sun abandon their proprietary blade server and has

adopted ATCA HP has strong telecom history/partnerships HP has struck a deal with Intel to deliver ATCA IBM has opened up the BladeCenter specification via

IEEE and Blade.org IBM is aggressively working

with a range of ISV partners

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