The aTCA-3420 is a 20-port 10GbE Fabric Interface and 24-port GbE Base Interface AdvancedTCA®
(ATCA) multilayer Switch Blade based on Broadcom BCM56800 and BCM56312 switch silicon. It
supports up to thirteen 10GbE ports for a 14-slot PICMG 3.0 ATCA system, with six egress GbE ports
and two 10GbE SFP+ uplink ports via front panel access. With optional AMC-3420 mezzanine card,
users can have 4 additional SFP+ uplink ports for maximum connectivity. The ADLINK aTCA-3420
incorporates Broadcom's FASTPATH® networking software and is designed for ATCA adopters (NEPs &
TEMs) who require AMC modularity, 10GbE layer 3 switching, a scalable control-plane engine and
high-availability Fabric Interface.
The aTCA-3420 is ideal for ATCA platform adopters who require high speed and high bandwidth data
transport interconnects for packet switching and highly flexible external I/O access. It meets the
bandwidth-intensive switching requirements of applications such as IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS)
servers, media gateways, 3G wireless, network monitoring, Unified Threat Management servers,
packet inspection servers and enterprise media servers.
ADLINK's aTCA-3420 is equipped with Broadcom's FASTPATH® networking software. The extensive
feature set and integration capabilities of FASTPATH® enables powerful networking capabilities for
the Fabric Interface. It also assists hardware in switching frames and provides comprehensive device
management to the network administrator.