Manufacturing Magazine August 2018 | Page 56

KONTRON CANADA INC .

INSIDE SYMKLOUD OPEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS

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SYMKLOUD series of converged open infrastructure platforms are commercial-off-the-shelf x86 ( COTS ) platforms for carrier clouds , content delivery networks , hosting and cloud ( XaaS ) provider infrastructure . They allow organisations to massively scale VNF , edge datacentre , and video / OTT / broadcast workloads and enable fast and efficient roll-outs . MS2900 Series of converged platforms feature nine high density modular nodes managed by redundant gigabit ethernet switches and include compute , storage and dual 600GbE ingress switch fabric in a single 2U short depth enclosure . If an operator wants to run the entire stack for AI from their central office and data centre , for example , the SYMKLOUD MS2910 has a single socket Intel Xeon processor and a PCIe slot on each of the nine nodes , whereby consumable components such as storage , FPGA and GPU can easily be added . SYMKLOUD can also be used to run Virtual Network Functions ( VNFs ) on top of it – several can run on the same platform which eliminates the need to purchase numerous pieces of hardware .

AUGUST 2018