HDC3 provides superior scalability, flexibility and price performance ratios for new generation of blade servers

December 2nd, 2009, Berkeley – Adax Inc, an industry leader in high performance signaling infrastructure, has launched the industry’s first SS7 signaling controller for the new PCIe ExpressModule (PCIe EM) format, the HDC3-EM. Designed to meet the PCISIG PCI Express ExpressModule Specification Revision 1.0 the HDC3-EM allows the highly successful Adax HDC3 SS7 signaling board to be used in systems using the new PCIe EM architecture, such as the Sun Blade 6000 servers.

The Adax HDC3 board delivers a highly flexible and scalable I/O solution and the PCIe EM standard also supports hot-swappable cards. The HDC3-EM has four or eight E1/T1 ports and two Ethernet interfaces which enable both SS7 and SIGTRAN to run on a single card. Delivering up to 248 MTP2 links or eight HSLs (Q.703 Annex A or ATM AAL5) per card, the HDC3-EM board is able to perform many thousands of transactions per second, placing minimal load on the host, maximizing application performance and ensuring no degradation of service for the customer. 

“We are delighted to be the first to offer the market a signaling I/O card for the PCIe EM format,� says Drew Sproul, Director of Sales and Marketing at Adax. “The combination of the HDC3-EM card and servers like the Sun Blade 6000 is ideal for database type applications in telecoms such as Multimedia Services.�

The Adax HDC3 family is also available in PMC, AMC, PCI/X and PCIe (full height and low-profile) board formats, all of which share a common software driver and have a consistent API for application portability. This makes the HDC3 card a highly flexible, scalable and portable signaling solution for all system architectures that maximizes protection of investment as no changes are required when moving between different systems.