Alliance Systems Offers CompactPCI Solution; New C-Series Delivers Next Step in Density and Availability.Business Editors & High Tech Writers PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2001 Alliance Systems, Inc. now offers a comprehensive CompactPCI communication solution to carriers, large enterprises and service providers. The C-Series 10000 and 15000 provide an advanced, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. system capable of managing the most mission-critical applications. As a complement to Alliance's award winning I-Series communication platforms, the company unveiled the C-Series as a strategic product option for its customers who demand the highest integrity and availability as well as a space-saving, high-density system. The 15000 and 10000 have built-in redundancy and were designed to meet five-nines (99.999%) and four-nines (99.99) of availability, respectively. "Capitalizing on our leadership in standards-based communication servers, we are seeing that customers who require high availability and full redundancy need a CompactPCI-based solution," said Rusty Cone, president of Alliance Systems. "In anticipation of these needs, we have added the two initial CompactPCI solutions for our customers who demand 24/7 uptime." C-15000 The C-15000 high availability system is a NEBS-compliant CompactPCI solution designed for the most demanding, mission-critical, telco-grade applications. Designed to provide five nines (99.999%) availability, the C-15000 has built-in redundancy for active system components including system slot CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. boards, power supplies, cooling, and system alarms, as well as reducing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time To Restore) The average time it takes to repair a failed component. See reliability. MTTR - Mean Time To Recovery (Mean Time To Replace) for system components by optimizing the cPCI front-loading, hot-swap standard to simplify replacement and minimize service time. Built to meet Bellcore Network Equipment Building System (NEBS NEBS Network Equipment Building System (Bell Telephone Labs) NEBS Network Equipment Building Standards NEBS New England Business Services NEBS New England Barbecue Society NEBS Neue Europäische Bewegung Schweiz ) Level 3 requirements, the C-15000 is ideal for applications requiring high system availability including service nodes, intelligent peripherals, central office server platforms, data acquisition, computer-based instrumentation, industrial automation/process control, automated test, imaging/machine vision, medical systems, networking or any critical computing server platform designed for the central office. Key features of the 15000 include: -- Dual redundant, hot swappable Pentium(R) III processor system CPUs -- 2 5.25" drive bays -- 12 64-bit peripheral slots with H.110 telephony bus and rear-panel I/O (P3 and P5) -- Support for IEEE 1101.11-style rear transition cards -- Four AC or DC input 150W hot swappable power supplies for N+1 redundancy -- Compliant with PICMG 2.0 (CompactPCI), 2.1 (Hot Swap), and 2.5 (Computer Telephony) specifications -- Supports Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux C-10000 The C-10000 fault-tolerant system
Fault-tolerance or graceful degradation is a NEBS-compliant CompactPCI solution designed for high density, enterprise applications. Designed to provide four nines (99.99%) availability, the C-10000 has cPCI hot-swap board support, cooling, and system alarms, as well as reducing MTTR for system components by optimizing the cPCI front-loading standard to simplify replacement and minimize service time. The C-10000 is built to meet the highest density telephony applications making it ideal for applications such as high density telephony servers A computer in a network that provides telephone integration. The term may refer to the entire system or to just the plug-in boards and software. An Internet telephony server links phone lines to the Internet. , enterprise call centers, PBXs, service nodes, intelligent peripherals, central office server platforms, data acquisition, computer-based instrumentation, Industrial automation/process control, networking, and VoIP. Key features of the C-10000 include: -- 10U, 19" enclosure -- Option for up 8 processors -- 2 5.25" drive bays -- 450 AC power supply -- Integrated, replaceable fan tray -- 8-slot, 6U CompactPCI Backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. -- 64-bit or 32-bit, 33MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. operation -- H.110 computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration bus support -- Supports Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Windows 2000, Linux About Alliance - www.alliancesystems.com Alliance Systems, Inc. is a global leader in providing communication infrastructure solutions for traditional and next-generation networks. The Company designs, develops and manufactures communication platform products that enable voice communication applications such as network signaling, switching, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. and Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP). In addition, the Company provides service solutions including consultation, implementation, training, after-sales support, maintenance and warranty options for its entire line of products. Phone: 972/633-3400 |
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