1. HARDWARE DESIGNED FOR A SOFTWARE DEFINED WORLD
Dedicated to shaping the future of
Access Platforms for the Digital Era
KONTRON COMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS

2. SYMKLOUD Hardware Portfolio
Platform designed on merchant silicon
Drive Hardware Harmonization
Common Control Management Plane
Enable Peripherals Integration
Increased Composability
Private\Hosted
Central Office
Hub\Aggregation
Customer premise
Kontron - Partner in System Design

3. Deployment Conditions
Environmental challenges
Limited real-estate
Low power
Serviceability
Compliance

4. Packet forwarding - CUPS HW offloading(Peripherals)
Use Cases
Compute
Caching AI
Packet forwarding - CUPS
Transcode
AR/VR
HW offloading(Peripherals)

5. Open Compute & Edge? ?? Footprint Density Rack dependency
19”
38” ??
Footprint
Density
Rack dependency
Power & cooling
Failure and Security Surface

6. 576 HT Xeon cores | 720 GbE | 1.75W/GbE
Muscling the Edge
576 HT Xeon cores | 720 GbE | 1.75W/GbE
Form Factor Design
Hot-Swappable, Redundancy
Zero-touch Provisioning
Advanced Telemetry
WarFare packing
API driven
Field experience over standard body
19”
21”

7. Per CPU core I/O Benchmark
6x 100 GbE uplinks
720 Gbps backplane
1 server
up to 18 servers
Approach A
Approach B

8. Power Consumption Measurements for System Under Test
boot and idle power consumption
Approach A
Approach B

9. 40RU | 360 servers | 11520 HT Xeon cores @ 2.1Ghz | 14 TbE
Key Differentiator
HIGH DENSITY
SIMPLE INTEGRATION
Before
KONTRON
Consolidate 36 1U COTS servers with 2 Kontron MS2920 machines*
High Serviceability with integrated leaf switches. Integrated management
*Based on MSP806x
CAPEX SAVINGS
Durability
Up to 22% CAPEX savings, future proof upgradability
High-End embedded commodities, future proof serviceability
OPEX SAVINGS
Software bundling
Up to 81% in power & rack space savings versus COTS servers
Additional savings with capitalized SW license & support fees
40RU | 360 servers | HT Xeon 2.1Ghz | 14 TbE

10. Multi-Access Edge Composition
MSH x 10GbE Uplinks
MSH x 40GbE Uplinks
MSH x 100GbE Uplinks
CPU
FPGA
GPU
Transcode
Caching
I/O cards
MSP8060-Strong Compute
MSP8050-Transcode
MSP8045-FPGA
MSP8041-SDI VIDEO
MSP8040-STORAGE
Designed for
MSP8043-GPU
MSP8047-I/O cards

11. Integrated Open Source Ecosystem
Management Plane
Merchant Silicon
Open Source Driven
CPU
FPGA
GPU
Transcode
Caching
I/O cards
2U-Aggregation
Rackmount
Short Depth
CPE
Edge Continuum

12. Upcoming Verizon Hackathon
Management Plane
2U GbE
Base System Fabric
720 GbE Backplane
CPU
GPU
Transcode
Caching
CPU
SUT
Strong Compute
(6 Servers)
Machine Learning Inference
Live Media Processing
Generator with 18 40Gb, 288 cores, 1500W

13. Summary Kontron Communications as a design partner
Edge Continuity, Density and Modularity
Strive for the best processing power per bit
Focused on Open Source Projects distribution, certification
Enable multi-core processors with GPU, FPGA and storage peripherals

14. THANK YOU