What are you talking about? In plain English please.... MicroTCA is a systems based standard that defines the size and shape of the hardware, and its components. It also defines the way the system communicates so that every piece, new and old are speaking the same language. By doing so, it reduces lots of ongoing cost and increases reliability of the system. Please
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Well, the goal of $500 for a system housing never really
materialized. That is until now. Armvida recognizes that for the
Enterprise space to trully embrace standards based systems compliant to
MicroTCA, that cost barrier needs to be crossed.
2005: ATCA vs. MicroTCA— WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
The Advanced Telecommunications Architecture (ATCA) serves as a framework
for creating core telecommunications systems using standards-based components.
Over time, such components help increase system performance and reduce system
cost by promoting competition and allowing designers to assemble systems from
interoperable, best-inclass elements. The MicroTCA architecture, currently
under development, seeks to achieve the same goals for lowercost,-network edge,
and enterprise applications. Low cost is one of the primary targets for the
MicroTCA design. The current goal is to create a bare-bones, low-end MicroTCA
system—including chassis, backplane, and virtual carrier card—for less than
$500. The supporters of MicroTCA anticipate that the potential for high
production volumes of advanced mezzanine cards, used in both ATCA and MicroTCA,
will keep the card costs down, as well.