Intel TIGH2U - Carrier Grade Server Product Overview

Product Brief
Intel® Carrier Grade Server TIGH2U
Telecom and Compute Products
Intel® Carrier Grade Server TIGH2U

Product Overview

The Intel® Carrier Grade Server TIGH2U is a NEBS-3 and ETSI-
compliant 2U carrier-grade rack-mount server, delivering industry-
leading performance-per-watt over previous-generation rack-
mount servers. It features the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor
5400 series — based on Intel's latest 45nm technology — to
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provide breakthrough performance and energy efficiency for
compute- and I/O-intensive applications and workloads.
This high-performing server is an excellent choice for the
demanding environment and limited space of the central office
and high availability data centers. It enables OEMs and TEMs to
create specialized, value-added solutions for a variety of telecom
applications including unified messaging, SoIP, call control, media
and signaling gateways, and operational system support.
The TIGH2U is designed to be fire-resistant and to withstand
extreme heat, humidity, altitude and zone 4 earthquake shock.
Advanced server management and telco alarm management
features provide visual, audible (optional) and SNMP event
indications of faults, consistent with the rigid requirements
of the telecom central office environment.
45nm Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400
Series with Extended Life Cycle Support
Dual-processor platforms based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon
processor 5400 series provide high levels of computing for
threaded applications, delivering eight-thread, 32- and 64-bit
processing capabilities with 12 MB of L2 cache per processor.
Based on 45nm enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the
processor delivers up to 38-percent improvement in perform-
ance-per-watt over previous-generation Intel® quad-core
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processors. It has also been demonstrated to deliver up to 2x
faster performance than Intel® dual-core processors, and up to
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5x increased performance
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over Intel® single-core processors.
Support for Intel® Advanced Technologies
The Intel Carrier Grade Server TIGH2U supports many of Intel's
advanced hardware technologies, including:
• Intel® Virtualization Technology
assistance for software-based virtual environments, allowing
multiple operating systems and applications to run in indepen-
dent partitions. It helps reduce total cost-of-ownership by
facilitating remote upgrades of applications and operating
systems.
• Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology
the server chipset, significantly improves data throughput via
hardware- and software-supported I/O acceleration by reducing
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CPU over-head to free resources for more critical tasks. Addi-
tionally, it provides network acceleration that scales seamlessly
across multiple Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports.
• Intel® 64 Architecture
32-bit applications and operating systems.
• Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) technology enables the
flexibility to optimize system for performance and capacity
or for cost effectiveness and power efficiency.
(Intel® VT) provides hardware
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(Intel® I/OAT), supported by
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provides flexibility for 64-bit and
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