FlexCore ATCA-FM40 10GbE Switch Product Photo

  • Integrated ATCA 10G Base / Fabric Switching & Management Solution
  • Consolidates Common Switch & Management Functions

Connectivity for sophisticated applications such as Traffic Shaping, Internet Offload, Load Balancing or high-end Security Gateways requires an upgrade of the entire system from 1GbE to 10GbE – including switches as well as payload blades. FlexCore ATCA-FM40 is a second-generation 10GbE switch that addresses the needs of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 3G wireless networks by using advanced Fulcrum “Bali” 10GbE switching silicon. The FM40 delivers Layer 3+ features to implement powerful load balancing while providing higher port counts that deliver 10GbE to each slot and up to eight 10GbE external uplinks.

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The FM40 helps eliminate oversubscription and traffic congestion typical in carrier-grade wireless networks by balancing the uplink parts with the backplane fabric and offering the added benefit of low latency Layer 2 switching which supports advanced traffic management capabilities.

The FM40 provides full 10GbE line-rate switching for 16 slots and 8 external links with a 240Gbps non-blocking fabric switch. The backplane interface supports PICMG 3.1 (option 9) 10GbE links for applications demanding maximum performance, but is also backward compatible with 1GbE links (option 1) for legacy products. A separate 533MHz 440EPx PowerPC processor is dedicated to running Layer 2 switching software.  The FM40 is also expandable to include all the “core” platform functions, including a separate application processor and storage.

Designed to consolidate common switching and management functions for telecom applications, industry-standard FM40 also features easy integration and flexible management interfaces.

Features & Benefits

SWITCHING

  • 16-slot 10GbE (PICMG 3.1 option 9) fabric switch
  • 16-slot 10/100/1000Base-T base switch
  • More than 100Gbps of external connectivity
  • Non-blocking Layer 2 switching on all ports
  • 533MHz 440EPx PowerPC with integral switch management software

PROCESSING

  • Optional application processor mezzanine
  • Intel LV Xeon / Core Duo / Core 2 Duo versions available

LOAD BALANCING

  • Advanced static and dynamic load balancing with up to 8 tuple matching on L2, L3 and L4 fields

STORAGE

  • Up to 150GB of SAS or SATA storage

Specifications

SWITCHING (SYSTEMS UP TO 16 SLOTS)

  • 15 x 10GbE fabric channels (PICMG 3.1 option 9) with legacy support for 1GbE (PICMG 3.1 option 1)
  • 15 x 10/100/1000Base-T base channels
  • 2 x 10/100Base-T ShMC channels

FRONT PANEL I/O

  • 8 x fabric uplinks configurable for 10GbE or 1GbE operation SFP+ or SFP modules, SR, LR, or LRM
  • 4 x base uplinks – 10/100/1000Base-T
  • FlexConsole Universal Serial Console (to all CPUs)
  • Management LAN port
  • 10/100/1000Base-T port (to Application Processor)
  • 10/100/1000Base-T to base
  • In Service, Out of Service, and Hot Swap LEDs

SWITCH MANAGEMENT PROCESSOR

  • 440EPx PowerPC processor, 533MHz, 512MB RAM
  • Integrated switch management software

APPLICATION PROCESSOR

  • Industry-standard COM Express mezzanine
  • Up to 2GB of memory
  • SATA / SAS storage interfaces

STORAGE

  • Up to 150GB SFF HDD
  • 80GB SFF Serial ATA (SATA) HDD

MECHANICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Standard 8U single-slot front board and RTM
  • Operating environment: – Temperature: 0C to +55C – Humidity: 5%-80% (non-condensing) – Vibration: 20Hz-2KHz random multi-axis, 0.5G RMS
  • Storage/transportation environment: – Temperature: -40C to +85C – Humidity: 5%-95% (non-condensing) – Vibration: 20Hz-2KHz random multi-axis, 6G RMS
  • Assembly components meet UL 94-V0 flammability rating

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

  • UL 60950-1 Safety of Information Technology Equipment
  • IEC/EN 60950-1 Safety of Information Technology Equipment
  • FCC Part 15, Subpart B, Class A
  • CE Mark – Meets EMC directive 89/336/EEC
  • Designed for Telcordia NEBS GR-63-CORE and GR-1089-CORE Level 3
  • RoHS 6 / 6 Compliant

Software

SWITCH MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

  • Switching protocol support
    IEEE 802.3 – 10 Base-T IEEE 802.1p – Ethernet Priority with User Provisioning & Mapping
    IEEE 802.3u – 100 Base-T
    IEEE 802.3ab – 1000 Base-T GARP – Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
    IEEE 802.3ac – VLAN Tagging GMRP – Dynamic L2 Multicast Registration
    IEEE 802.3ad – Link Aggregation GVRP – Dynamic VLAN Registration
    IEEE 802.3ae – 10 GigE IEEE 802.1Q – Virtual LANs with Port based VLANs
    IEEE 802.1S – Multiple Spanning Tree (available in L2 Release 2, 3Q07) IEEE 802.1v – Protocol-based VLANs (available in optional L3 release in 4Q07)
    IEEE 802.1W – Rapid Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1X – Port Based Authentication
    IEEE 802.1D – Spanning Tree IEEE 802.3x – Flow Control
  • Advanced Layer 2 functionality
    Broadcast Storm Recovery IPv6 Classification APIs (available in optional L3 release in 4Q07)
    Double VLAN/vMAN Tagging Jumbo Ethernet Frames
    IGMP Snooping (available in optional L3 release in 4Q07) Port Mirroring
    Independent VLAN Learning (IVL) support Static MAC Filtering
  • Switch management support
    AgentX SNMP Support Configurable Management VLAN
    RFC 854 – Telnet 802.1X MIB – 802.1-PAE-MIB
    RFC 855 – Telnet Option RFC 2578 – SMI v2
    RFC 1155 – SMI v1 RFC 2579 – Textual Conventions for SMI v2
    RFC 1157 – SNMP RFC 2580 – Conformance statements for SMI v2
    RFC 1212 – Concise MIB Definitions RFC 2674 – VLAN MIB
    RFC 1493 – Bridge MIB RFC 3410 – Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet-Standard Management Framework
    RFC 1643 – Ethernet-Like MIB RFC 3411 – An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
    RFC 1867 – HTML/2.0 Forms with file upload extensions RFC 3412 – Message Processing and Dispatching for SNMP
    RFC 1901 – Community based SNMP v2 RFC 3413 – SNMP v3 Applications
    RFC 1908 – Coexistence between SNMP v1 & SNMP v2 RFC 3414 – User Based Security Model for SNMP v3
    RFC 2068 – HTTP/1.1 protocol as updated by draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-03 RFC 3415 – View-Based Access Control Model for SNMP
    RFC 2271 – SNMP Framework MIB RFC 3416 – Protocol Operations for SNMP v2
    RFC 2295 – Transparent Content Negotiation RFC 3417 – Transport Mappings for SNMP
    RFC 2296 – Remote Variant Selection; RSVA/1.0 State Management “cookies” – draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-05 RFC 3418 – Management Information Base for SNMP
    RFC 2576 – Coexistence between SNMP v1, v2 and v3
  • Advanced management features
    Industry Standard CLI with the following features: – Scripting capability – Command completion – Context sensitive help Optional User Password Encryption Multi-session Telnet Server
  • Optional Modules for Routing, Quality of Service, and Multicast available

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