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Sun Claims Industry First with NEBS-Approved 64-Thread Server
| Feb 13, 2008 | Carrier IP Telehony | Show Update
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Analyst: Joe McGarvey
Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: Moderate/High
Market Impact:Moderate/High |
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Event Summary
February 12, 2008 – Sun Microsystems announced the Sun Netra T5220 server a carrier grade, 64 thread rackmountable NEBS Level 3 approved server. Based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor and powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System the 2U, 20-inch deep platform supports 64 virtual servers in a single box. Six PCI slots and four Ethernet interfaces provide for I/O support. The Sun Netra T5220 is available now and entry level pricing starts at $14,995.
Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on Sun’s announcement of its new NEBS Level 3 approved server, the Sun Netra T5220, because it will provide a pre-approved next-generation platform for equipment vendors and development partners to architect their next-generation products and services. The ability to support multiple virtual servers will make it an ideal platform for Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectures, which require a high degree of closely coupled yet separate components, such as application servers and media gateways. These qualifications will help to make the T522 a platform of choice for equipment vendors and systems integrators.
• Vendor Importance: Moderate to high to Sun Microsystems, as it needs to keep bringing new and innovative platforms to the market to maintain a strategic advantage associated with combining a high-performance platform with quick time to market. As Sun’s common off the shelf (COTS) products become increasingly powerful in terms of performance and features sets, they offer vendors a practical alternative to product development paths similar to the ATCA platform approach.
• Market Impact: Moderate to high on the CIPT market segment because many products in this category are already based upon SUN Netra technology, such as the Cisco BTS 10200 and NSN hiQ 8000 softswitches. In addition, numerous platform endorsements are being embraced by companies such as Alcatel-Lucent and development partners and members of the SUN-P partner ecosystems will help to make this a platform of choice for carrier deployments for products and services.
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