This is our introduction to the new CP-TA blog, which allows members and non-members to exchange ideas and provide direct feedback to CP-TA.

Since the standardization of ATCA and AMC, more and more component and systems vendors are launching new products. From ATCA chassis in various footprints, general purpose CPU blades, switch blades with various switching technologies, network processing based components as blades or Advanced Mezzanine Cards to specialty telecom I/O Advanced Mezzanine Cards or ATCA blades. The freedom to choose gives Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) a broad range of options to choose from the best of breed component and system providers.

However, to eliminate integration burdens and to create mainstream adoption, many key players in the industry formed CP-TA to work together with other industry organizations to help NEPs shorten integration time and effort, and to give guidance on test methods to perform interoperability testing for vendors and NEPs.

We currently have 23 active members with active participation and the list is growing.

There is an increase of ATCA based platforms currently in the market at the Tier 1 and Tier 2 NEP level. This is proof that ATCA is very well adopted in the telecom market and it is gaining interest in other markets as well.

The recent telecom event NXTcomm demonstrated a clear indication of this direction specifically in the Tier 2 NEP manufacturer market.

A range of systems providers have based their platform on ATCA. In some cases the blades are specialty blades with proprietary components, but the advantages of using ATCA as a system architecture is very well adopted in the industry.
CP-TA was present in the PICMG showcase area and demonstrated the latest ATCA tester based on the TPM 1.1.

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