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Emerson Network Power ATCA-8320 Highest Density ATCA Media Processing Blade Simple Type: Media Board

The Emerson Network Power ATCA-8320 is a DSP-based media processing blade for use in AdvancedTCA systems. It offers a very high density of IP voice and video transcoding, including H.264 at up to 1080p, for use in communications applications. Voice and video streaming over IP networks is becoming more pervasive as customer demand for media consumption continues to rise, and the diversity of media sources, network conditions and individual consumption devices proliferate. Using traditional Intel® Xeon® server architectures, power and efficiency soon become a limitation when scaling voice and especially HD video stream processing to high channel densities. By employing efficient Octasic OCT2224 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) to provide the transcoding functions, the new ATCA-8320 media processing blade can take the place of many additional server blades when adding voice or video processing to an application. The blade can be used as an offload function for a standard server blade, but can also be used as the basis for a standalone media processing function. In addition to the DSPs, the ATCA-8320 blade features an integrated multicore CPU to provide advanced IP flow management and distribution, and a mobile x86 CPU for local application hosting. This “Gateway on a Blade” architecture allows a high degree of scalability from very small systems up to very large. IT professionals can now accelerate their applications and achieve SSD-like performance at a modest cost with a minimum effort.

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