Barcelona, Spain, February 15, 2011 – Kontron proudly unveiled today the 40GbE ATCA packet processor blade AT8242 designed with two powerful OCTEON® II cnMIPS64 multi-core processors from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM). This represents the third generation of Kontron products based on the OCTEON family of multi-core processors and is a clear game changer for telecom equipment manufacturers seeking the most efficient, densest, open standard 40G bladed hardware that both manages complex networking functions and provides a future-proof investment that easily scales with the expected exponential growth of converged voice, video and data traffic over IP-based networks.

The Kontron AT8242 features two OCTEON II CN6880 processors, each one integrating 32 enhanced cnMIPS64 v2 cores with up to 48GHz of 64-bit computing power in a single chip. It also combines over 85 L3-L7 application acceleration engines, virtualization features, 100Gbps of connectivity, and a new Real Time Power Optimizer™ that dynamically adjusts power depending upon the application-level processing requirement.

Clients may wish to consider using the AT8242 40G packet processor blade in combination with the new Kontron OM9141-40G and/or OM9141-10G ATCA 14-slot platforms, featuring market-leading switch management software and up to four times the I/O switching bandwidth than the previous platform generation.

The AT8242 is designed for versatility and can be used in many core and edge network applications, particularly Packet Data Network Gateways (PGW), Serving Gateways (SGW) and Mobility Management Entity (MME) network elements found in the 4G LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Growth in mobile data traffic networks will require more efficient and powerful deterministic processing of applications such as packet processing, deep packet content inspection (RegEx), application-aware switching and routing, parsing, IPv6/IPv4 forwarding, compression/decompression, classification, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) at 40Gbps wire-speed.