The AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade is an integrated signaling sub-system consisting of standard hardware components and TietoEnator signaling middleware. The AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade is a flexible system consisting of a combination of hardware and signaling software for AdvancedTCA-based systems. The AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade is designed to meet the extreme requirements on reliability, capacity and scalability, normally required in telecom network core nodes. The AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade is intended for telecom equipment manufacturer, system integrators, application developers and network operators implementing telecom core & radio network connectivity in a AdvancedTCA system. The software is optimized for the Intel IA32 architecture, taking advantage of the latest improvements in CPU design.

Key benefits

The main benefit of the AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade is the extremely good scalability and reliability achieved by TietoEnator's unique Horizontal Distribution architecture. Other benefits of the solution are:

• Very high link density
• Simultaneous support for all types of transport
• Horizontally distributed signaling processing
• High capacity, more than 10,000 TCAP transactions per second / signaling CPU blade
• Designed for high availability, 99.999%

Performance tests confirm high capacity for TietoEnator's AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade

"Extremely high capacity, linear scalability and high robustness"

Performance tests show that TietoEnator's AdvancedTCA Signaling Blade handles 13,000-14,000 TCAP transactions per second for each Signaling Blade. And for each new Signaling Blade, the scale factor is about 1.7, giving the product unique scalability.

"The tests confirmed the unique strengths of our AdvancedTCA-based signaling solution - extremely high capacity, linear scalability and high robustness," says Jörgen Tränk, product manager at TietoEnator.