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FlexTCA Info

• FlexTCA Overview
• Financial Value
• Customer Applications
• Trillium System Software
• Trillium HA Protocols
• Data Plane

More Systems

• ATCA Packet Processing
• 10GbE Traffic Mgmt
• 1GbE ATCA Compute
• 1GbE cPCI Compute

FlexPacket Data Plane Software

The new FlexTCA System from Continuous Computing provides an integrated solution to meet new service and capacity requirements for applications such as fixed-mobile convergence, Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and content-aware network devices supporting traffic shaping, security and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). The FlexTCA system is unique in providing full integration between protocol stacks, Service Availability Forum (SAF)-compliant High Availability (HA) middleware, platform management, and a range of AdvancedTCA blades and chassis options. Specifically the FlexTCA system and associated FlexPacket ATCA-PP50 blade is supported by a comprehensive range of networking and routing protocols to meet the needs of next generation network elements.

The FlexPacket Data Plane protocol suite includes Trillium protocol stacks such as GTP, SIP, SCTP and Diameter as well as 6WIND routing and fast path functions. The 6WIND software combines networking control protocols for routing, connectivity, security, and mobility with optimized fast path functions to maximize system performance and efficiency. The FlexPacket ATCA-PP50 is also supported by a range of application software from our ISV partners including DPI application software called Qoala from Qosmos. We also have partners who can supply security software including detection and prevention of intrusion as well as denial of service attacks

Fast path functions are ported to the PP50's XLR packet processors and use RMI OS- and hardware-specific accelerators to deliver maximum performance for functions such IP forwarding, IP in IP, IPsec, VR (Virtual Router), etc. The software is optimized to deliver maximum performance for all packet sizes, with specific optimization for small packet sizes. Specifically, the IPsec fast path is optimized to make use of the XLRs' autonomous security engines and the packet distribution unit. Unlike alternative packet processors, this approach enables >10Gbps of IPsec to be supported using only a small number of the MIPS cores, leaving the remaining MIPS cores to perform other useful tasks.

6WIND Software Overview

Features & Benefits

Target Applications

• 3G and LTE Wireless Access Gateways
• Traffic shaping and DPI platforms
• Security and Access Control including Session Border Controllers
• Content and service-aware routers

Comprehensive Software Support

• Trillium protocols (GTP including LTE, SIP, SCTP, Diameter)
• 6WIND routing protocols & IPsec
• Qosmos Qoala DPI software
• ISV partners for security (IPS, IDS, DDOS)

High Performance

• Optimized fast path functions for the XLR multi-core MIPS packet processor
• Supports on-chip accelerators such as IPsec encryption engines
• Efficient for large and small packet sizes

Faster Development

• Ported to the PP50 dual XLR multi-core MIPS packet processor blade
• Integrated with FlexTCA system to reduce time-to-market by up to 24 months

Specifications

Trillium Software

Wireless

• 3G GTP-c and GTP-u
• LTE eGTP-c and eGTP-u

Control Plane

• SCTP
• SIP
• Diameter
• Others available on request

6WIND Software

Routing

• Static (IPv4-v6)
• RIP, RIPng
• OSPFv2, OSPFv3
• BGP-4, BGP-4+, IS-IS
• ECMP (IPv4-v6), VRRP
• PIMv4-SM, PIMv6-SM, IGMP/MLD snooping & proxy

IP Multi-cast

• (*,G) and (S,G) IPv4 forwarding

Security

• IPsec dynamic SADB and SPDB
• IPsec ESP with IKE
• IPSEC AH with IKE
• IPSEC Tunnel with IKE
• ESP DES-CBC with IKE
• ESP 3DES with IKE
• ESP AES with IKE
• HMAC-MD5
• SHA1
• IPSEC Transport with IKE

Connectivity & Transition (IPv4 and IPv6)

• Ethernet
• IPv4, TCP, UDP, ARP(*), forwarding, etc.
• IPv4 Static routing
• OSPF, RIP, BGP dynamic route updates
• IPv4 VR
• IPv4 ECMP
• 6in6
• 4in4
• IPv6, TCP, UDP, NDP, forwarding, etc.
• IPv6 Static routing
• IPv6 VR
• OSPFv3, RIPng, BGP4+ dynamic route updates
• IPv6 ECMP
• 6in4
• 4in6
• 6to4
• IPv4

Mobility

• Home Agent, FMIP
• Corresponding Node
• Mobile Node, IPsec integration
• NEMO
• Mobile IP (MIPv6)

L2 and L3 Advanced Protocols

• GRE
• Ethernet Bridged Network
• Link aggregation
• VLAN
• VLAN in VLAN
• L2TP VPN (LNS and LAC)
• PPPoE Client
• PPPoE Client/Server (with IPCP & IPv6CP)
• PPTP
• RMON
• Mobile IP Tunneling
• 802.1x authenticator

QoS

• IPv4 & IPv6 differentiated services
• Token bucket, two rate three color marker conditioners
• Taildrop and RED dropping algorithms
• Priority Queuing