Sun has given its Netra blades a major upgrade. The new systems are pitched firmly at telcos, and major on high availability rather the ultra dense, low-power pitch that RLX aims at hosting facilities.
The new 410 and 810 are compatible with their Compact PCI predecessors: both have hot swap and IPMI management, and boast redundant power supplies (in the new Netra 810), fans and Ethernet.
Alban Richard, marketing director for HA software at Sun told us that the failover time in the event of one of the cards failing is less than three seconds. The Netra software suite maintains two IP addresses, of which only one is visible to the operator. If one goes down, operation transfers to the stand-by.
News source: The Reg
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