Introducing HP Integrity NonStop Carrier-grade BladeSystem

The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c-cg BladeSystem platform is designed specifically for the telecommunications environment, where customers demand exceptional levels of performance and scalability without compromising on system availability.

This first ever 24/7 mission critical computing NEBS-certified system is built with bladed modularity and standards and provides customers with double the performance and half the footprint.

We have taken the proven advantages of blades—cost-savvy, energy-efficient, and change-ready—and married them with the proven advantages of NonStop—continuous availability, data integrity, and extreme scalability. 

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Meet your growth demands with the
NB50000c-cg. With the NonStop Multi-core Architecture (NSMA) and the J-series NonStop Operating System release, you can double your system performance, with the ability to scale up and out for flexible growth. For example, with this smaller footprint, even with an increase in subscribers, you will still be able to scale in a small amount of real estate. In addition, you will get more processing power in less space with same power envelope.

• Half the footprint: The 8p NonStop BladeSystem fits in one 36U Rack.
• Includes NonStop fault-tolerant software
• Leverages Integrity server blade: two socket full-height server blade, featuring the latest Intel® Itanium® 9100 series dual-core processors
• Includes NonStop ServerNet controller
• Offered in 8, 16, 24, 32, or 48 GB memory configurations (bundled)
• The NB50000c-cg provides three novel and tightly integrated telco-specific CLIMS and a telco protocol-specific infrastructure. IP CLIM Software relieves NonStop BladeSystem of TCP processing while requiring no application changes.

The NB50000c-cg is ideal for reducing costs, while still providing all the NonStop reliability for key applications, such as HP OpenCall HLR (Home Location Registry), HP OpenCall HSS (Home Subscriber Server), SMS, HP OpenCall, and INS (Intelligent Network server) software.

In addition, this is the first HP Integrity NonStop carrier-grade platform which provides ServerNet Clustering up to 4080 logical processor per total system.

• Excellent price/performance
• Administration time and resource reduction
• Standards-based technologies and components
• Performance-based multi-core architecture (NSMA)
• Pre-configured
• Binary compatible
• 100% software compatible

• Multiple cores provide improved logical processor performance NonStop CG BladeSystem can be clustered unlike existing Integrity NonStop Carrier-grade system seamless clustering with prior systems
• Linear scalability up to 4,080 logical processors per system; up to 8,160 cores per system

Are you looking for a solution that can survive an earthquake or a storm and that can also scale linearly and rapidly? Telcos have unique and highly defined requirements for equipment that keeps voice and data running even if disaster strikes. You must continue to provide service availability no matter what fails or why. It is imperative to your customers and your business.

The NB50000c-cg, a NEBS-certified platform, can fulfill the availability and operational requirements of telco environments. The NB50000c-cg is 100% NonStop. It provides 24/7 continuous availability through the fault-tolerant NonStop operating system and fully-integrated fault-tolerant software stack.

The NB50000c-cg can help you enhance your quality of service with the best end-to-end transaction integrity in the industry and improved response time and throughput.

The regulatory environment means that telcos have multiple stakeholders when meeting service level agreements (SLAs). 24/7 availability is critical in this industry to reduce customer churn, maximize revenue, and meet high, and growing,  traffic volumes for voice and data.

Evolve your network, don’t replace it. The NonStop CG BladeSystem with OpenCall subscriber management will make you well-positioned to move smoothly toward an all-IP infrastructure using any combination of protocols.

In addition, OpenCall solutions enable you to offer your subscribers an exceptionally rich and personalized user experience.

Do you prefer to have common management between your commercial servers and your carrier-grade servers? With the new
NB50000c-cg, you get BladeSystem manageability together with all NonStop management tools and applications—existing NonStop manageability tools interface with OSM.

All CPU blades, switches, fans, and power supplies are monitored by the new Onboard Administrator (OA) in real-time:

• OSM continues to be a NonStop serviceability application
• Leverages OA functionality and user interfaces and includes a very sophisticated OA web interface
• Provides aggregate enclosure status and drills down to OA interface

Systems Insight Manager (SIM) continues to provide expanded serviceability:

• HP SIM Blade plug-in monitors and manages entire bladed infrastructure through a dashboard
• HP NonStop Cluster Essentials integrates seamlessly with HP SIM
• Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) remotely manages all servers with built in technology and integrates seamlessly with HP SIM

HP has more than 30 years of experience deploying IT into telco networks. HP leverages both commercial off-the-shelf or standards-based components technology, incorporating a cooperative approach. The NB50000c-cg
enables telcos to reduce costs with a standards-based solution without losing any of stringent characteristics needed to meet carrier-grade requirements.

Partner with HP and you know that you will have services and support for a very long time.