14 DAY TRIAL // Adding to their long line on products, Sun Microsystems has introduced the Netra X4200 M2 server, the first Network Equipment Building Standard (NEBS) Level 3 Certified rack server that Sun has built. It uses AMD Opteron processors with an estimated price of $9.845 for the 2-socket version of the Netra X4200 server and $6.145 for the 1-socket version.
Mark Butler, Netra systems product line director, Sun Microsystems said: "Adding x64 rackmount architecture to the Netra server family extends the choice of platforms for our customers and partners in the telco space. Now telco companies that want industry-standard hardware can develop their solutions on Sun ATCA blades or rackmount servers, the broadest offering of carrier grade platforms in the industry."
The server is built on a 2U, 20-inch package and supports up to four 146 GB Serial Attached SCSI drives and up to 32 GB of memory through eight DDR2 modules. The new Sun Multithreaded Networking Card the server is shipped with enables for higher network throughput. The next step is to add Sun Multithreaded 10 Gigabit Ethernet Networking Technology to the Netra family of servers, thus allowing for an expected four times increase in performance compared to Sun's current NIC's when paired with a x64 or SPARC multi-core server.
Peter Robinson, telecom segment manager, AMD said: "This next deployment of the Sun Netra platform -- the X4200 M2 -- is quite impressive, both from a performance and quality point of view. It not only leverages the throughput and power of AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture but demonstrates Sun's commitment to our continuing relationship. Sun and AMD have a long history of providing industry-standard x86 hardware to many vertical markets, and we will continue to work together to extend such offerings to the telco industry."