AdvancedTCA is the largest specification effort in the history of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturer’s Group (PICMG).  AdvancedTCA is targeted to requirements for  next-generation communications equipment.  Via hardening, AdvancedTCA is even finding homes in Military and Industrial applications. This series of specifications incorporates the latest trends in high speed interconnect technologies, next-generation processors, and improved reliability, high availability, and ease of serviceability with use in applications such as LTE/4G and other Next-Generation wireless and wireline infrastructure requirements, 3G Infrastructure, WiMAX, IMS Applications, Virtualization, IPTV, Radio Network Controlling, Datacenter/Network Operations, Security and Traffic Handling, Computational Clustering, Transcoding and encoding processes.

AdvancedTCA (ATCA) was created with five key goals in mind:

1. Enable interoperability among manufacturers’ components
2. Reduce Time to Market
3. Reduce development costs
4. Reduce the length of development cycles
5. Create an open, standards-based scalable, flexible platform architecture

As of today, ATCA has achieved these goals.  In using the ATCA architecture for your application, your organization will achieve not only a demonstrably reduced Time to Market, but lower overall development and deployment costs compared to traditional 1U or 2U deployments and proprietary solutions.  Interoperability is a hallmark of ATCA, allowing you to choose the best-in-breed components for your application – preventing you from being stuck with one vendor whose proprietary solution may not meet all of your unique needs.

Flexibility Through 3 AMC Sites and 10G Switching

As a bladed architecture, ATCA offers many benefits over traditional 1U and 2U solutions, namely in reduced integration and cabling costs, as well as being extraordinarily scalable and flexible.  A shelf can be adapted to fulfill nearly any need you have via AMCs on most blades (or on a carrier blade) or through specialized full-sized blades fitted for one specific purpose.

The achieved interoperability will allow you to select the best components to fit your needs in your application.  One vendor’s CPU node will work just fine with another’s switch in a third vendor’s chassis.  You have the freedom of choice, the freedom of flexibility, and the freedom of reduced lifecycle costs.

Freedom to Choose Best in Class Processor Blade

By utilizing the AdvancedTCA architecture, your application can take advantage of very robust building blocks that will allow your application the cost-savings, the faster Time to Market, and  the bandwidth and throughput needed to move you to the top of your market.