Intel Ships NEBS Platforms

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- 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. These 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 will 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.”Intel Corp.