Intel targets telecom market with carrier-class server products

INTEL TARGETS TELECOM MARKET WITH CARRIER-CLASS
SERVER PRODUCTS



First NEBS-Certified Intel-Based Platforms Shipping to Computing and Telecom

Manufacturers; Counter Proprietary Approach



SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 12, 2001 - Intel Corporation is shipping its first

carrier-grade server 'building block' products that conform to stringent

telecommunications reliability requirements. These platforms bring new

levels of cost efficiencies, higher performance, greater choice and

scalability to telecommunication and service provider customers requiring

rugged, highly available computing solutions.



The new server products conform to strict reliability requirements as

defined by the Network Equipment Building Specification (NEBS) and European

Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI). Carrier-grade servers comply with

telecommunications industry requirements for platform ruggedness to survive

environmental hazards such as excessive heat and cold, fires and

earthquakes. Today's announcement consists of two carrier-grade server

platforms from Intel. The first is a 2U-sized dual processor server and the

second will be a 1U, dual-processor form factor. 1U is a unit of measurement

of 1.75 inches.



"Intel's world-class building block products and open computing model offer

telecom and service provider customers lower costs, greater investment

protection and an opportunity to deliver services and innovations faster,"

said Mike Fister, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise

Platforms Group. "Unlike traditional RISC-based platforms, Intel-based

solutions provide the flexibility, choice, raw performance and scalability

to address the needs of the telecommunications market."



A number of computer original equipment manufacturers and telephone

equipment manufacturers are expected to start shipping systems based on

these new platforms in the first quarter of 2002. The new product family

will initially include Intel® Pentium(tm) III processors in high-density

form factors, offered with a choice of operating systems such as Windows,

Linux and Unix. Carrier-grade servers based on the Intel Xeon(tm) and

Itanium(tm) processor families are expected in the future.



The Intel-based systems will power core telecom, wireless and communication

infrastructure for use in high-speed, high-traffic networks used by the

carriers, telecom service providers and large corporations. The platforms

will run a wide range of wire line and wireless applications, such as

software-enabled switches or 'soft switches' used to bridge the telephone

network and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). These servers are also

capable of providing unified messaging services (which handle voice, fax and

regular text messages as objects in a single mailbox that users can access

via email client or by telephone) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services

(advanced encrypting and decrypting technologies to companies allowing

secure sharing of public telecom resources for data transmission).



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computer, networking and communications products. Additional information

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