Performance Technologies announces advances to its 1U MicroTCA product

Performance Technologies announced the availability of its newest member of IPnexus MicroTCA systems, the AMP5071. The device is designed for system engineers developing IP-based communication products for aerospace and defense communication systems. The integrated system is ideal for applications such as WiMAX gateways, LTE infrastructure equipment, radar gateways, weather alert systems, enterprise VoIP/SIP servers, transportation network equipment, and scientific compute and monitoring systems. The new AMP5071 comes integrated with a choice of processing Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC). Developers can select an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, or a Freescale MPC8641D dual-core 1 GHz PowerPC processor. Additional AMC modules for I/O, storage, and compute functions can be easily configured and integrated into the system in order to meet a wide range of IP-based communications design criteria. In addition, the high availability MicroTCA system comes loaded with the company’s NexusWare Carrier Grade Linux operating system and development environment, and remote systems management software – NexusWare Portal.