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- BladeCenter HT is the right choice for the ultimate combination of high performance and durability in telco, military, medical, government and industrial deployments.
- IBM BladeCenter HT tightly integrates servers, storage, networking, input/output (I/O) and applications, allowing clients to build robust and flexible IT infrastructures using common building blocks.
- Flexible modular technology integrates Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems.
- Take command of your Central Office or IT infrastructure with powerful IBM Cool Blue technology, a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling – helping to build greener networks and infrastructures.
- BladeCenter Open Fabric is a highly adaptable portfolio of products and tools that delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimise application performance.
- A powerful set of management tools help simplify the IT environment. BladeCenter provides tools that are open, easy and seamlessly integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your networking or IT.
- Dramatically increase high-speed connectivity and throughput with multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Terabits per second (Tbps) internal chassis throughput on backplane) and 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) aggregate internal throughput per blade server.
- Improve network flexibility and interoperability bridging new services to control gateways supporting SS7, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), legacy PSTN, wide area network (WAN) devices and network interfaces with special purpose telecommunications blades
- Efficiently consolidate network resources while delivering high scalability for next-generation network (NGN) applications such as IPTV, Video On Demand (VoD) and IMS, with higher port concentrations and 10 Gbps Ethernet network bandwidth
- Certified testing by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) of the BladeCenter HT chassis has been completed. The BladeCenter HT chassis is covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which is available for review upon request.
BladeCenter HT helps reduce network infrastructure costs while increasing network infrastructure performance and flexibility – making it the ideal platform to run your NGN end-to-end infrastructure applications.
Product features
- Chassis features the functionality of BladeCenter with the added performance capabilities of multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane), a 10 Gbps-capable fabric and a very robust thermal solution.
- Delivers increased network infrastructure performance ideal for telecommunications Service, Control and Transport plane applications
- Improves network flexibility and interoperability via support for many blade processor types and operating systems
- Advanced proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
- Certified testing by UL of the BladeCenter HT chassis has been completed. The BladeCenter HT chassis is covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which is available for review upon request
- Three-year planned production life
Hardware summary
- 12U rack-optimised chassis supporting up to 12 blade server bays
- Supports high-performance dual-core and quad-core Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux®, Windows®, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris 10
- Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel (FC)
- Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric
- Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules, DC or AC power
- Four hot-swap, redundant fan modules
- Redundant removable media trays with optional Compact Flash, two external universal serial bus (USB) ports and full alarm management panel
- High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and enhances investment protection for future technologies
- Hot-swappable midplane active components help provide maximum reliability for deployment into a telecommunications central office
- Demonstrated history of compatibility so operators can standardise on a particular configuration for extended period of time
