{"id":3109,"date":"2005-03-24T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/atca-products.html"},"modified":"2005-03-24T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T18:14:25","slug":"atca-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/atca-products.html","title":{"rendered":"ATCA Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">In my recent blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/advancedtca-growing-quickly.html\"><span style=\"COLOR: windowtext\">AdvancedTCA Growing Quickly<\/span><\/a> I talked about how Instat mentioned the OSC market and more specifically the ATCA market is advancing nicely. This post was based on some research by Instat. I had a chance to ask <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">Eric M. Mantion, Senior Analyst at Instat about the OSC and ATCA market in particular. Here are his comments:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Why do you see AdvancedTCA gaining share over other standards? What are the advantages over prior technologies?<\/p>\n<p><\/b>There really aren&#8217;t that many other standards. For the most part, there really is just PICMG 2.0 (known as CompactPCI) and its numerous variants. IBM&#8217;s BladeCenter is out there, and is doing fine in the enterprise space, but that&#8217;s not the telecom&#8217;s space. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent, every year on capital equipment for service providers on a worldwide basis. While the CompactPCI standard has been out there for a while, it is not a good fit everywhere and there some substantial areas that were improved in PICMG 3.0 &#8212; most noticeably backplane capacity and thermal envelopes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">IYO are there areas where ATCA doesn\u2019t make sense?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">ATCA is also still a bit expensive, so we also won&#8217;t see PICMG 2.0 fade away. Any more than the dump truck could replace the pick-up truck, or vice versa. One example might be WiMAX basestations that are priced between $20 and $35k &#8212; far to little to support an $8k chassis. If the price could drop to $3k, then that might be different. Plus, there are other derivatives that are also being considered, like MicroTCA. In the end, there is a lot of momentum building behind PICMG but these markets (like any gargantuan market) changes slowly.<\/span><br \/><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><br \/>When will the costs drop on ATCTA equipment to make it a no brainer choice for OSC implementations?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">The ACTA will never be the &quot;last remaining OSC,&quot; but we do expect it to start entering the enterprise market in 2007.<\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent blog, AdvancedTCA Growing Quickly I talked about how Instat mentioned the OSC market and more specifically the ATCA market is advancing nicely. This post was based on some research by Instat. I had a chance to ask Eric M. Mantion, Senior Analyst at Instat about the OSC and ATCA market in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}