Product category: Networking Hardware
News Release from: Adax Europe | Subject: HDCII-LPe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 November 2006
Controller switches to PCI Express
Low-profile PCI Express form factor HDCII controller provides support for the expanding variety of mid-range servers currently marketed to the telecommunications industry
Telecommunications signalling provider Adax is launching a low-profile PCI Express form factor of its HDCII controller, the HDCII-LPe, to provide support for the expanding variety of mid-range servers currently marketed to the telecommunications industry. The new HDCII-LPe is the first low-profile signalling controller of its kind and can be used to help operators realise the benefits, such as energy and space efficiencies, associated with the low-cost, high-performance, rack-mounted servers that are becoming increasingly popular in the telecommunications industry.
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'Deploying mid-range servers can significantly lower capital and operational expenditure', explains Robin Kent, Director of European Operations with Adax Europe.
'Sun's decision to target the industry with its T2000 and X2100 servers has generated a significant demand from our customers for a controller that is able to fit into a server chassis without compromising performance'.
'The need has been such that some customers have been removing the lid from these boxes to run extensive tests on the interfaces using the full height PCIe form factor, knowing that the new low profile version will be managed using the same software'.
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Kent believes the new product will play a key role in enabling mobile and fixed-line operators to realise the reduced capital and operational expenditure they stand to gain through deploying mid-range server technology.
'Adax is the first to market with the low-profile signalling controller because we are committed to providing our customers with hardware and software solutions that comply with all existing and forthcoming standards and form factors'.
'Taking this approach not only enables us to support a wider range of server vendors, it also protects our customers' investment by future-proofing their infrastructure'.
Existing Adax customers can use the low-profile board without needing to change their current application as the HDC driver software is the same for all HDCII board formats: PCI/PCI-X, PCI Express, PMC and AMC.
As with all HDCII cards the low-profile board is capable of handling up to 124 low speed signalling links or four high speed links at full line speed and can perform many thousands of transactions per second whilst maximising the bus performance and reducing the load on the host processor.
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