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News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: EndurX 25K platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 March 2002
Redundancy is key
to system availability
The EndurX 25K platform for ultra availability (UA) solutions is the first in a new line of fully integrated system solutions from Force Computers
Offering advanced remote platform management, high-availability (HA) middleware and software upgradeability, the EndurX 25K UA provides a novel concept in embedded systems. Driven by customer-defined policies for event monitoring and management, EndurX provides for the first time in open standards embedded HA computing a whole system with "five nines" or "six nines" capability not just individual components that require OEM integration.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 March 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Traditionally, high-availability systems have only offered 99.999 percent uptime or 'five nines' on a component or subsystem level, forcing OEMs to integrate hardware and software on their own.
By building on Force's high- availability architecture and newly available HA middleware from GoAhead, the EndurX 25K ultra availability platform gives OEMs a highly integrated hardware-software offering, scaleable across multiple chassis, that eliminates any single point of failure with the use of all redundant components.
Compliant with PICMG 2.16, the EndurX 25K UA is available preconfigured with up to 14 redundant Intel Pentium III processor-based server blades running the Linux operating system and GoAhead SelfReliant middleware.
It also features: a preinstalled cluster manager for all processor nodes; IPMI platform management (PICMG 2.9); fully redundant, hot-swappable hardware; HA storage solutions; a NEBS Level 3 design for the option of high-density computing configurations for telecomms and NGN applications; and ETSI building practices for back-to-back deployment.
"Breaking from its traditional position as a supplier of single board computers, Force has finally delivered what I can truly call a 'system' solution not just a collection of cards in an enclosure", said Jerry Krasner, Embedded Market Forecasters.
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"With the economies of scale and scope no longer favouring the big, vertical telecomms equipment manufacturers, an outsourcing model built on a system platform strategy such as Force's fully-integrated EndurX line makes perfect sense.
"The transition to a modular network has brought about a greater need for highly reliable system availability, capable of continuous service in Central Offices or other inaccessible facilities with harsh environments", said Joe Jensen, general manager, Embedded Intel Architecture Division.
"Designed to meet ETSI and NEBS Level 3 requirements, the EndurX platform with redundant low-voltage Pentium III processor-based blade servers and PICMG 2.16 switch-fabric architecture should provide a solution that can failover among multiple boards in active and standby mode as events warrant".
The EndurX 25K UA fully integrated with dual redundant Linux/Pentium III node boards, 100Mbit Ethernet Layer 2-plus switches, HA middleware, HA platform management and SNMP remote management in a 9U/255mm 14-node slot PICMG 2.16 system will be available through Force's Early Access Unit (EAU) programme in Q2 2002, with volume shipments in Q3 2002.
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