Radisys® Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), a leading global provider of advanced embedded solutions, and LCR Electronics, Inc.®, an industry leader in designing and manufacturing custom rugged backplane and chassis systems and other components, today announced a collaboration to deliver ruggedized AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) platform solutions to the military, aerospace and government (MAG) market segments. With the increase in demand for programs such as land mobile communications, aerospace surveillance and maritime networks that must collect and process large amounts of data in harsh environments, the need for reliable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems is more pressing than ever. Ruggedized ATCA standards-based solutions provide both reliability and high performance under extreme conditions. Radisys and LCR Electronics enable MAG customers to leverage a ruggedized ATCA platform for command and control as well as network appliance solutions that require high bandwidth and high performance in aircraft, ships and ground mobile equipment.
“We are pleased to partner with LCR Electronics to deliver ruggedized, high performance ATCA solutions for the MAG market,” said Venkataraman Prasannan, senior director, ATCA Product Line, Radisys. “LCR Electronics has deployed systems in some of the most extreme conditions, and their expertise in customizing for the MAG sector is superior. The flexibility of our best-in-class ATCA building blocks coupled with LCR Electronics’ MIL- Qualified ATCA ruggedized chassis provides our customers with the opportunity to develop applications with minimum integration effort, enabling flexibility and faster time-to-market.”
Radisys’ leading portfolio of Promentum® ATCA products are already being deployed in a multitude of communications networks under stringent reliability environments such as NEBS. The military and aerospace environments and their respective network-centric applications are similar in nature. MAG customers could easily take advantage of the comprehensive portfolio of the ATCA solutions by combining the COTS solutions available from Radisys with ruggedized chassis from LCR Electronics. LCR Electronics has developed and fielded the industry’s first truly ruggedized ATCA chassis tested to, and complying with, MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-167 specifications making them suitable for deployment in a ruggedized environment. The two companies, working together, will deliver Radisys’ Promentum® building blocks in LCR Electronics’ ruggedized KBWD chassis portfolio. This collaboration has already yielded an integrated system solution on two major military programs.
“As the leading provider of ATCA systems and building blocks, Radisys was the natural choice for us to work with to deliver ATCA platform solutions,” said Tom Malek, product manager, LCR Electronics. “The depth and breadth of their offering combined with our MIL-STD tested chassis gives our customers the flexibility, performance and reliability to meet any situation, whether its 50,000 feet in the air or traversing down a jungle track.”
Radisys Promentum® portfolio of best-in-class solutions include the industry first 10G ATCA platform and building blocks such as ATCA-4500, a versatile single board computer (SBC) based on Intel® Xeon® 5500 (“Nehalem”) processors, ATCA-7220 Dual OCTEON Packet Processing line card and a multitude of other solutions to enable compute and network-centric applications. Leveraging the comprehensive set of assets in combination with the MIL-STD-compliant chassis from LCR, MAG customers can achieve high performance and throughput as well as the extreme environment requirements demanded by the harsh network environments. The combined COTS nature and flexibility of the industry standard ATCA in this collaboration enable MAG customers to achieve their return on investments.
About Radisys Corporation
Radisys (NASDAQ: RSYS) is a leading provider of advanced solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets. Through intimate customer collaboration and combining innovative technologies and industry leading architecture, Radisys helps OEMs, systems integrators, and solution providers bring better products to market faster and more economically. Radisys products include embedded boards, application enabling platforms, the OS-9 operating system, and turn-key systems, which are used in today’s complex computing, processing, and network-intensive applications. Radisys is a Premier Member with the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a community of embedded and communications developers and solution providers. For more information, visit www.Radisys.com, write to [email protected], or call 800-950-0044 or 503-615-1100. Editors seeking more information may contact Lyn Pangares at Radisys Corporation at 503-615-1220 or [email protected].
About LCR Electronics
LCR designs, develops, and manufactures custom and standard backplanes, card cages, ARINC 404 and rack-mounted chassis, and sub-system enclosures for military, aerospace, medical and high-end commercial applications including ATCA, µTCA, as well as other architectures. In addition, LCR designs and manufactures a complete range of high quality standard and custom EMI filters (RFI filters, EMC filters), motor controls and electronic controls for many applications; from appliance, portable tools and industrial equipment to sophisticated defense and aerospace-related products and programs. For more information, visit www.lcr-inc.com, write to [email protected] or call 610-278-0840 or 1-800-527-4362.