The IBM BladeCenter® family for telecommunications is a group of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms with the computing power needed to help telecommunications service providers lower the costs of servers in the network while helping to increase the revenues they generate.
Through unparalleled BladeCenter support for highly diverse wireline and wireless networking as well as for enterprise applications, service providers can consolidate application, service, transport and control planes on a single platform. That kind of power, versatility and efficiency can help service providers quickly and economically meet the high processing demands of new applications, while handling ongoing I/O needs through existing equipment. Furthermore, the IBM BladeCenter, yields smaller footprints, ease of maintenance and significantly less power consumption assisting in reducing cost, space and environmental requirements associated with deployments.
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IBM BladeCenter system
BladeCenter offers the high performance and manageability of IBM rack-optimized platforms. The result is an effectively managed infrastructure that helps maximize telecommunications resource productivity and minimize next-generation network and network administration costs. BladeCenter enables you to focus on achieving your business objectives of reducing cost and complexity, shortening time to-market, and improving customer loyalty and retention, while improving security.
BladeCenter helps your business be responsive to customers, focused on core competencies, variable to adapt to cost structures flexibly and resilient to face any challenge.
What's more, the BladeCenter family offers ideal platforms to accelerate the deployment of potentially revenue-producing IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions. IBM is working with a number of vendors so that IMS software components run on our off-the-shelf, carrier-grade platforms that are shipping today and can be deployed in either telecommunication central offices or telecommunication data centers.
IBM BladeCenter T system
IBM BladeCenter T extends the value of BladeCenter by providing a platform on which IBM Business Partners and service providers can build their IP-based, next-generation networks.
This high-performance, highly dense, scalable, industry-standard computing platform is designed to help service providers accelerate revenue generation, reduce costs and improve customer loyalty. By achieving these goals, telecommunication companies can become more nimble, efficient and responsive to business changes and opportunities - meeting the challenges of becoming an On Demand Business.
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IBM BladeCenter H
IBM dramatically extends the value and industry-leading capabilities of the IBM BladeCenter® family, with the IBM BladeCenter H platform. With a design that's both intelligent and simple, the BladeCenter H platform is a powerful blade-computing chassis designed to provide increased performance and deliver many new capabilities for telecommunications equipment manufacturers, service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and system integrators.
The IBM BladeCenter H platform delivers up to 1Tbps total bandwidth through a new high-speed 10 Gbps fabric. It maintains compatibility with the BladeCenter family of products by using common building blocks of servers, switches, storage and other components. This makes it an excellent choice for running emerging next-generation network (NGN) applications and enhanced management tools. Simplify network administration and staffing while enabling significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
The IBM BladeCenter H platform delivers added performance by supporting current and upcoming generations of dual- and quad-core blade servers, including Intel®, AMD and IBM PowerPC® processor-based servers. These servers are designed to support emerging and demanding NGN applications, such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV), video on demand (VoD), IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) and security.
Service providers can take full advantage of the scalability and operational flexibility of the BladeCenter H platform by running–on a single chassis–many different applications on many different operating systems, including Solaris 10. Service providers can choose the applications and operating systems they need to deliver new services efficiently and quickly.
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IBM BladeCenter HT system
IBM BladeCenter HT delivers the ultimate combination of high performance and durability in a BladeCenter chassis.
This newest NGN platform in the evolution of the BladeCenter family is a powerful chassis that helps reduce network infrastructure costs while increasing network infrastructure performance and flexibility – making it the ideal platform to support demanding next-generation, high-performance core telecom network applications such as Internet protocol TV (IPTV), Video on Demand (VoD), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Advanced Security, and Transport and Control.
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Integrated Platform for Telecommunications
Expanding on the value of BladeCenter T and BladeCenter systems, IBM offers an integrated, modular solution for telecommunications companies. Integrated Platform for Telecommunications provides network business solution partners and service providers who are deploying BladeCenter T and BladeCenter systems a comprehensive solution.
The Integrated Platform for Telecommunications framework includes best-in-class IBM hardware, a carrier-grade Linux® platform, IBM software and high-availability middleware, and IBM support services and applications from a worldwide network of IBM Business Partners.
Key benefits
The IBM BladeCenter family assists today's telecommunications service providers in achieving their business objectives:
- Open-specification, standards-based platforms are designed to support cost-effective, multiservice infrastructures that are flexible, reliable and secure.
- Cost-effective, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Linux®, IBM AIX®, Microsoft® Windows®, IBM POWER™ and Intel® Xeon™ technologies maximize compatibility, deployment flexibility and investment protection, while reducing overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Common, off-the-shelf blades and switches help reduce capital planning and expenditure (CAPEX), operating expense (OPEX) and TCO, while enhancing investment protection
- A comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software is available from a world-class, multisource vendor ecosystem
- High-performance modular architecture, blades and switches help limit single points of failure and support network convergence by providing network and application performance, scalability, flexibility, reliability and resilience
- Enterprise-volume economies and faster time to market can be achieved through shared components between IBM eServer BladeCenter and IBM eServer BladeCenter T systems.
- Achieve deployment flexibility – The IBM BladeCenter family of systems lets service providers decide where to deploy platforms where needed – DataCenter, Central Office, or Customer Premise; NEBS; AC or DC Power – whether supporting wireless or wireline, centralized or distributed network architectures, network I/O or compute intensive applications.
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