1460 Platform - Product Specification

See Also 1460 Data Sheet PDF

The 1460 is Newport Networks’ flagship chassis. It offers carrier class performance and redundancy. The 1460 chassis can host any combination of Newport Networks’ applications, these include Session Border Controller, Border Gateway or Border Controller.

Carrier Grade

The 1460 has been designed to offer no single point of failure, and provides in excess of 99.999% availability. It has 1+1 resilience on all system modules, including power distribution units, fans and disks, and physical link aggregation (802.3-2002) providing link resilience and load balancing. The power is distributed into six power zones with front panel indicators displaying the health of each power zone. Management is via dual, independent management networks.

At the core of the 1460 are two redundant switch matrices each offering 30 Gigabits of switching capacity. The Switch and Management cards operate in an active stand-by pair, each with its own independent back-plane connections to all card slots. The management card can monitor the health of all the processors in the 1460 and initiate a fail-over to a stand-by processor if it detects the failure of any active processor.

Continuous Operation

The Switch and Management cards operate as an active stand-by pair each with an independent disk subsystem mirroring all system information between them. In the event of a failure of the active Switch and Management card the Stand-by will take over with no interruption to service.

All cards and sub-systems are designed to be hot-swappable, meaning hardware additions of replacements can take place whilst the chassis remains in service.

Multi-processor Architecture

The 1460 chassis has a total of 14 card slots, 2 slots are reserved for the Switch and Management cards, the remaining 12 slots accept any of Newport’s line cards or processor cards. The 1460 can offer up to 40 processors which can be allocated to execute processor intensive functions on any data stream. Application processors can run in active/stand-by pairs meaning that failure of a processor has little or no impact on traffic. In addition, all Line Interface Cards use dedicated networks processors to perform packet analysis in real-time. This architecture, born out of roots in deep packet inspection, offers unparalleled performance.

Resilient Connections

The 1460 supports both 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connections. The chassis can be equipped with up to 10 dual Gigabit Ethernet cards with either electrical or optical interfaces offering 20 Gigabits of connectivity. If finer granularity is needed the 10/100 card supports 8 Ethernet ports and 4 processors.

All line cards support Link Aggregation and load balancing (802.3-2002), meaning up to 8 physical links can be grouped into one logical, resilient link. This feature further extends the carrier class capabilities of the chassis.

Carrier Environment

The 1460 is 48 V DC powered. The power can be connected to the two power distribution units from two independent sources, thus increasing the resilience of the chassis. Each power distribution unit supplies 6 power zones on the chassis. The chassis is cooled by two fan trays which are speed controlled by multiple temperature sensors on the cards. Each fan tray is capable of cooling the chassis on its own.

Applications

Information on the Session Border Controller, Border Gateway and Border Controller application software can be found in the separate application software data sheets.

Key Features

Application Modes

• Session Border Controller, Border Controller or Border Gateway
• Multiple applications supported on a single chassis

Security

• Hardware based DoS protection
• Carrier Grade Resilience
• Modular, chassis-based system with no single point of failure
• Resilient architecture with 1+1 sparing for all system modules
• Link aggregation (802.3-2002) for link resilience and load balancing

Connectivity

• Dual optical or electrical interfaces (IEEE 802.1z)
• Octal 10/100 Ethernet card (IEEE 802.3u)

Management

• Operational configuration and monitoring via Web GUI
• Full configuration and monitoring using an advanced CLI
• Alarm and Trap element management using SNMPv3
• Dual connections to management system with the option of encryption, physically separated from the data plane
• Full ICMP support

Product Details and Performance

Chassis Unit

• 19” rack mountable, 21U high
• 482.6 mm (W) x 580.5 mm (D) x 933.2 mm (H)
• 650mm racking practices
• 12 Universal Card (UC) Slots + 2 dedicated Switch and Management slots
• 2 resilient, load-sharing Power Distribution Units supplying 6 power zones -38 VDC to -57 VDC, typically < 1.3 kW

Application Processing Engine Cards (UC)

• 4 application processors

8-Port 10/100 Ethernet Line Interface Cards (UC)

• Half/full duplex, auto-negotiation (IEEE 802.3u)
• 4 application processors

2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Line Interface Cards (UC)

• Dual optical or electrical interfaces (IEEE 802.1z)

Switch and Management Cards

• Management host operates in an active/stand-by model
• (hot standby)
• Active-independent disk control, with data synchronization at the application level
• Dual 30 Gbps switch fabric operating in an active-active, load sharing model

Delay

• Media delay < 16 µs

Environmental Requirements

• ETS 300 019-1-1 class 1.1 (Storage)
• ETS 300 019-1-2 class 2.2 (Transportation)
• ETS 300 019-1-3 class 3.1 (In Use)
• NEBS level 3
• Humidity: 5 % to 85 %
• Temperature: +5 ºC to +40 ºC

Safety

• EN60950: 2000 Edition 1
• IEC60950: 1999 + Corr. February 2000

EMC

• EN55022: 1998 A1:2000, A2:2003
• EN55024: 1998 A1:2001, A2:2003
• EN61000-3-2:2000
• EN61000-3-3:1995, A1:2001
• FCC CFR47: PART 15: 2006
• ICES-003