BladeCenter HT Chassis

Highlights

BladeCenter HT is the right choice for the ultimate combination of high performance and durability in telecommunications, military, medical, government and industrial deployments
NEBS Level 3/ETSI certified
Support for high-speed input/output (I/O) technologies including Virtual Fabric, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC)
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
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
Improve network flexibility and interoperability, bridging new services to control gateways supporting SS7, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (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 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Ethernet network bandwidth.

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

High-speed I/O support including Virtual Fabric, 10 GbE and 4 Gb FC
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
NEBS Level 3/ETSI certified.
Long life models

Hardware summary

12U rack-optimised chassis supporting up to 12 blade server bays
Supports high-performance blade servers with Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris
Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting GbE and FC
Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric
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