* Sun debuts NEBS Level 3 certified server
I spoke with Sun last week about a new NEBS Level 3 certified server it is debuting this week. Sun has one of the most extensive lines of carrier-grade servers available. It competes mostly with systems from IBM, as well as HP. In the past, Sun’s carrier-grade line, known as Netra, was pretty much all Sparc-based. But now Sun is widening its portfolio to include systems also built on industry standard chips.
I spoke with Sun last week about a new NEBS Level 3 certified server it is debuting this week. Sun has one of the most extensive lines of carrier-grade servers available. It competes mostly with systems from IBM, as well as HP. In the past, Sun’s carrier-grade line, known as Netra, was pretty much all Sparc-based. But now Sun is widening its portfolio to include systems also built on industry standard chips.
Last fall, Sun introduced its first Opteron-based Netra server, the CP3020 blade server. Beginning this week, telcos and others looking for carrier-class reliability will also have an AMD-based rackmount server to choose from – the Netra X4200 M2.
The new Netra server supports Solaris 10, Red Hat and SuSE Linux and Windows. The box design is based on the Sun Fire X4200 M2 server that Sun rolled out in the fall.
The Netra X4200 M2 comes in a 2U chassis and supports up to 32GB of memory and as many as four 146GB SAS drives for a total of 584GB of onboard storage. The server also supports Sun’s new Multithreaded 10G Ethernet Networking Technology for enhanced I/O performance.
The Netra X4200 M2 is aimed at a variety of telco-related tasks including acting as a media server or signaling gateway controller, supporting network traffic analysis systems or VoIP deployments.
The two-socket Netra X4200 M2 is available now and is priced starting at just under $9,900. The one-socket version will be available in May with pricing starting at around $6,000.
In other Sun news, Sun celebrated Earth Day last Wednesday by announcing that by its calculations it has reduced emissions in to the Earth’s atmosphere by more than a half billion pounds of CO2 thanks to the Cool Threads servers that it introduced in 2005. The servers are built on Sun’s multithreaded eight-core Niagara processors and the whole idea behind the design was to make extremely energy efficient servers.
By Sun’s accounts, it seems like it has hit the mark. Sun says the reduction in CO2 that it attributes to the Niagara servers is equivalent to “taking over 29,000 cars off the road for a year, or not burning 17.7 million gallons of gasoline.” Pretty nice.
Get more detail on Sun’s Earth Day claims here.
