BladeCenter HT Chassis

• BladeCenter HT is the right choice for the ultimate combination of high performance and durability in telco, military, medical, government and industrial deployments.



• IBM BladeCenter HT tightly integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications, allowing clients to build robust and flexible IT infrastructures using common building blocks.



• Flexible modular technology integrates Intel® Xeon, AMD Opteron, and IBM POWER™ processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems.



• Take command of your Central Office or IT infrastructure with powerful IBM Cool Blue™ technology, a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling — helping to build greener networks and infrastructures.



• BladeCenter Open Fabric is a highly adaptable portfolio of products and tools that delivers a flexible, open, connected infrastructure to help optimize application performance.



• A powerful set of management tools help simplify the IT environment. BladeCenter provides tools that are open, easy and seamlessly integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your networking or IT.



• Dramatically increase high-speed connectivity and throughput with multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps internal chassis throughput on backplane) and 40 Gbps aggregate internal throughput per blade server



• Improve network flexibility and interoperability bridging new services to control gateways supporting SS7, VoIP, legacy PSTN, WAN devices and network interfaces with special purpose telecommunications blades



• Efficiently consolidate network resources while delivering high scalability for NGN applications such as IPTV, VoD and IMS, with higher port concentrations and 10 Gbps Ethernet network bandwidth



• Certified testing by Underwriters Laboratories® (UL) of the BladeCenter HT chassis is in progress, and when complete, the BladeCenter HT chassis will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which will be available for review with customers

BladeCenter HT helps reduce network infrastructure costs while increasing network infrastructure performance and flexibility—making it the ideal platform to run your next-generation network (NGN) end-to-end infrastructure applications.

Product features		Hardware summary
Chassis features the functionality of BladeCenter with the added performance capabilities of multi-terabit networking (more than 1.2 Tbps throughput on backplane), a 10 Gbps-capable fabric and a very robust thermal solution. Delivers increased network infrastructure performance ideal for telecommunications Service, Control and Transport plane applications Improves network flexibility and interoperability via support for many blade processor types and operating systems Advanced proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities Certified testing by UL of the BladeCenter HT chassis is in progress, and when complete the BladeCenter HT chassis will be covered under a UL-certified NEBS Level 3/ETSI test report, which will be available for review with customers Three-year planned production life		12U rack-optimized chassis supporting up to 12 blade server bays Supports high-performance dual-core and quad-core Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron and IBM POWER and a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux®, Windows®, IBM AIX® and Sun Solaris 10 Up to four traditional hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel Up to four new high-speed capable switch module bays supported by 10 Gbps fabric Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules, DC or AC power Four hot-swap, redundant fan modules Redundant removable media trays with optional Compact Flash, two external USB ports and full alarm management panel High-availability midplane helps enable maximum uptime and enhances investment protection for future technologies Hot-swappable midplane active components help provide maximum reliability for deployment into a telecommunications central office Demonstrated history of compatibility so operators can standardize on a particular configuration for extended period of time