The NCP-7560 represents the high performance end of Advantech’s Packetarium™ product line. It integrates up to eight powerful, multi-core Packetarium™ Network Processing Boards for wire speed packet processing providing up to 80 Gbps throughput. The main carrier board provides high-speed switched interconnects between boards, along with storage, systemmanagement and external network connections.Each Network Processing Board is linked by dual XAUI ports to a Broadcomm BCM56820 10 GbE switch on the carrier board. The 10 GbE switch also provides six front panel 10 GbE SFP+ ports and sixteen GbE SFP ports via a BroadcommBCM56512 GbE switch. An onboard SAS controller connects to two Advanced Mezzanine Card slots for SAS/SATA 2.5" storage. The carrier board incorporates a MPC8545 local processor for overall switch and system management and provides two front panel 100BaseT ports for remote management. Debug ports are also made available for development of custom or application specific hardware. The scalability of the NCP-7560 positions it ideally for OEMs designing high bandwidth systems in telecommunications and enterprise networking. It is particularly applicable for applications in service provider networks for enhanced security, in content-aware routing and subscriber-based services. The initial Packetarium™ Network Processing Boards are based on the CaviumOcteon CN5650 (12 cores). Each board supports up to 16 GB of memory on four DIMM sockets. Two PCIe x4 provide control plane connectivity with the carrier while two XAUI ports connect to the data plane. The board is remotely managed via a local Module Management Controller (MMC) connected to the carrier’s IPMB-L (I2C) bus. A console port and a 100 Mbps port provide further management interface options. Operating system support is available for the CaviumSDK, Linux Debian and Wind River PNE LE.