Advantech’s Blade Computing Division provides foundation building blocks for that value chain in the form of standard off-the-shelf computing and management blades designed to meet the needs of Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs).

These building blocks enable our TEM partners to redeploy their resources to focus on differentiated services, such as application development and network management as they themselves evolve into telecom solutions providers.

Advantech Blade Computing Division designs and manufactures blades in AdvancedTCA®, AdvancedMC™ and CompactPCI® form factors. We provide solid and timely technology introductions while designing to stringent industry standard requirements such as NEBS and ETSI. From experience, we know how to work hand-in-hand with system integrators and TEMs during the pre-certification phase of their integrated platforms.

When standard product adaptation is necessary to meet a TEM partner’s design constraint, Advantech understands how to change, move or remove connectors and components, re-adjust for EMC and adjust for chassis-specific cooling issues in a timely manner.

While the AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA ecosystem grows, not all required blade-level functions or elements are available as off-the-shelf products. That’s why we invested in geo-regional R&D teams to accompany our TEM partners in design-to-order-services (DTOS). Our DTOS organization offers same time-zone project management for the development of custom or accelerated designs based on our IP design libraries.

As TEMs turn their attention to the higher layers of the value chain to create differentiation, we understand that a strong co-working ecosystem is required to ensure that hardware platforms, operating systems and high-availability middleware components work together.

At Advantech we collaborate closely, and partner with, ecosystem hardware and software vendors to ensure interoperability at the earliest possible stage in the design cycle. Board Support Packages and Linux Support Packages are developed both internally and in collaboration with the main industry players.

The shift to modular computing and communications platforms is underway. Advantech is firmly committed to helping the telecommunications industry make a smooth transition to modular platforms, by working closely with the strong worldwide community of hardware developers and software solutions providers.

We acknowledge that through partnership and standards, the telecommunications industry can leverage enormous horizontal economies of scale to drive down the overall hardware development costs of the next generation of telecommunications voice and data infrastructure.