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BladeCenter HT Lays Siege to AdvancedTCA Product Image

BladeCenter HT Lays Siege to AdvancedTCA

  • Published: April 2007
  • Region: World
  • 60 Pages
  • Crystal Cube Consulting

IBM Systems appear to be at the forefront of Internet Protocol (IP) convergence and with BladeCenter, IBM can allow service providers to optimize their investment in both the data center and the network by offering fully interchangeable blade servers and components.

The pricing, and flexibility, for the BladeCenter servers and the performance comparisons are extremely important to the overall consideration for the platform-of-choice.

The IBM BladeCenter family is a group of commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) platforms with the computing power needed to help telecommunications service providers lower the costs of servers in the network while increasing the revenues they generate. BladeCenter, with its demonstrated service and support since early 2002, give Telcos a head start just based on the relationship IBM has enjoyed with enterprise-side of the Telcos.

With the diverse wireline / wireless networking, as well as, enterprise application availability, service providers have the option of consolidating application, control, and transport planes on a single platform. IBM believes that this kind of power, versatility and efficiency can help service providers quickly READ MORE >

List of Tables
List of Figures

Methodology

Executive Summary

Market Landscape
Convergence: Voice / Data & Video Networks
Next Generation Networks
Internet Protocol (IP) and IPTV
Internet Multimedia Subset (IMS)
IBM Value Adding Services

BladeCenter Family
BladeCenter
BladeCenter T
BladeCenter H
BladeCenter HT

Ingredient-Level Technology
Processors
Intel® Xeon® Processors
AMD Opteron™ Processors
IBM POWER™ Processors
IBM Cell Processors
Processor Comparisons
Virtualization

BladeCenter HT vs. AdvancedTCA
Why Has the AdvancedTCA Market Not Grown As Predicted?
AdvancedTCA Did Not Become “the” Standard for LTE
The “Perfect Backplane” Never Materialized
Few Brand Names Strongly Support AdvancedTCA
BladeCenter HT over AdvancedTCA
One Blade Size from NEBS to Datacenter
Economies of Scale
Brand Name Switches
Backplane Capacity
Fabric Daughtercards
Proven Interoperability
Support for All Major Operating Systems
Higher Performance per Watt
More Decisive Standards Body
AdvancedTCA over BladeCenter HT
Multi-Vendor Blade Supply
Better AdvancedMC Support
Rear Transition Modules
Full Mesh Fabric

Summary of Findings

Five-Year Forecasts
NGN Five-Year Forecast 2006 - 2011
Revised ATCA Forecast
Detailed Forecasts for BladeCenter HT
BladeCenter Platform Start-Up Pricing Compared to Sun CT 900

Guidance to Carriers and TEMs

Intel® Xeon® Processors
AMD Opteron™ Processors
IBM POWER™ Processors
IBM Cell Processors

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