Sun Microsystems CP3220 manual I/O Components, AMC Slots

5.4.6Sun Dual 10-Gbit Ethernet/Quad 1-Gbit RGMII Network Interface Chip (Sun 10 GbE Multithreaded Networking ASIC)

The Sun Netra CP3220 blade server is equipped with one Sun Dual 10-Gbit Ethernet/Quad 1-Gbit RGMII Network Interface chip that is specifically designed to support multicore and multithreaded processor with minimum CPU load while maximizing network I/O thoughput.

Sun 10 GbE Multithreaded Networking ASIC provides two 10-Gbit XAUI Ethernet connections to the ATCA back plane extended fabric, where four lanes are driven at 3.125 Gbyte/sec (if the ATCA switch supports 10-Gbit Ethernet) or a single lane at 1.25 Gbyte/sec if the switch is a 1-Gbit Ethernet device.

Sun 10 GbE Multithreaded Networking ASIC also provides two 1 Gbit RGMII ethernet connections to the Broadcom BCM5482H chip, which converts to SERDES and routes the SERDES signals through and 8 port switch and providing two 1Gb LANS to Zone 3-RTM and to each AMC slot.

5.5I/O Components

5.5.1AMC Slots

The Sun Netra CP3220 blade server contains two AMC slots, B1 and B2, which are available from the front panel. Both slots are single-width, mid-height slots. If needed, AMC I/O connectivity can be accessed from the front panel (depending on the AMC card installed) and through the optional ARTM.

Each slot has one hot-plug connector for the AMC cards. The Sun Netra CP3220 blade server conforms to the PICMG Advanced Mezzanine Card AMC.0 specification R1.0 ECR_002 D0.9, June 29, 2006, and supports AMC.1 Type 4E2 cards, as defined by the same specification.

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