Sun Microsystems has introduced new Netra AdvancedTCA blade servers family, which includes UltraSPARC and AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA blades. "Sun's new Netra ATCA blade server family adds innovation to open standards-based products, enabling NEP and service provider customers to successfully and profitably deploy next generation, high bandwidth telecom network infrastructure, IP-based service architectures and new revenue-generating services," said Mr David Yen, Executive Vice-President, Scalable Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. For customers who require carrier grade Linux OS on Sun's Netra ATCA blade server, Sun is announcing support for the MontaVista Linux CGE OS. Monta Vista has completed an optimised port of its CGE Linux environment for Sun's Netra ATCA blade server and Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Netra blade systems.
