New Sun systems address Telco service provider needs
The dedicated Sun division at Workgroup, Horizon, has announced the local availability of additions to the Sun Netra carrier-grade server family, driving new levels of performance, efficiency and scalability for telecommunication service providers.
The new servers include the Sun Netra X4250 server, a 2U rackmount server powered by two high-performance LV quad-core Intel Xeon processors; the Sun Netra X4450 server, a 4U rackmount server and the only carrier-grade server powered by four quad-core Intel Xeon processors; and the Sun Netra T5440 server, a 4U rackmount server powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors.
“Sun Netra servers give customers a choice of DC or AC power options and a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10, Linux and Windows,” says Bertus Hanekom, Sun product manager at
Horizon.
‘The X4250 and X4450 servers bring high levels of performance and datacentre efficiency to the telco market, enabling customer to save on space, energy consumption and cooling costs, while allowing them to scale for future growth.’
He says that using Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors with large on-die caches, high clock speeds and low power envelopes, the servers are equipped with two or four power-efficient processors, while keeping performance levels on par with enterprise-quality servers from HP and IBM.
“Both servers support high-efficiency AC and DC power, and are capable of forwarding large packets at near-wireline speed, measured on the Layer 3 forwarding tests using IP version 4 protocol,” says
Hanekom. The T5440 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivers high levels of application throughput. Its dual processors support 128 compute threads twice the number of threads as previous systems using a single UltraSPARC T2 processor.
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