System Design for Telecommunication Gateways

Key features:

* Combines software and hardware aspects of the system design.

* Defines components and services supported by open-source and commercial basic and extended software platforms, including operating systems, middleware, security, routing, management layer and more.

* Focuses on disruptive technologies.

* Provides guidelines for developing software architectures based on multi-threaded, multi-process, multi-instance, multi-core, multi-chip, multi-blade and multi-chassis designs.

* Covers a number of advanced high-speed interconnect and fabric interface technologies and their commercial implementations.

* Presents different system form factors from compact pizza-box styles to medium and large bladed systems, including IBM BladeCenter, ATCA and microTCA-based chassis. Describes different mezzanine cards, such as PMC, PrPMC, XMC, AMC and others.