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"Today, interoperability is the key hurdle to realizing the huge market potential of the open standards communications platforms industry. By addressing interoperability issues, CP-TA fills a hole in the industry and as such, will be a critical gating factor in enabling the mainstream market for certified interoperable products. Customers will benefit from the lower integration costs and faster time to market that these products provide."
-- Norm Bogen, Directorof
Networking, In-Stat
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Abstract: VDC Research Group, in partnership with the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), launched a quantitative investigation of ATCA Adoption trends at TIer I, II, III NEPs to understand the magnitude and directions of each of these import segments of the ATCA Market. A core source of data and information forming the foundation of this whitepaper is interviews with more than 200 NEPs that VDC has conducted over the past 2 years as part of its ongoing coverage of the embedded computing and communications platforms markets.
Improving Interoperability With The ATCATM Manageability Tester
Abstract: This CP-TA Whitepaper provides an overview of the ATCA Manageability Tester, which provides a benchmark for testing IPMCs. By using the ATCA Manageability Tester, a vendor can find and fix the basic interoperability issues at the design stage, thereby reducing the risk of a failure in a live scenario. The integration time taken by system integrators has been proven to be less manifold when the ATCA Manageability Tester was used in a pre-integration effort.
CP-TA Defined Interoperability: Reducing Product Integration Time Using CP-TA Tested Building Blocks
Abstract: B-STAR, in coordination with CP-TA, integrated an IPTV application using ATCA building blocks tested with CP-TA’s test tools. The goal was to quantitatively show a reduction in integration time using hardware components that were CP-TA tested.
This paper documents B-STAR’s integration effort and serves as a process template exemplifying the use of CP-TA’s test tools and standardized test report.
Global Market Demand Analysis For xTCA Components And Solutions
Abstract: B-STAR, in coordination with CP-TA, integrated an IPTV application using ATCA building blocks tested with CP-TA’s test tools. The goal was to quantitatively show a reduction in integration time using hardware components that were CP-TA tested.
This paper documents B-STAR’s integration effort and serves as a process template exemplifying the use of CP-TA’s test tools and standardized test report.
Data Transport White Paper
Abstract: This paper describes how interoperability of AdvancedTCA products using Data Transport features like the Base and Fabric Interfaces can be enhanced by defining appropriate interoperability requirements and applying applicable test methodologies for product certification.
Manageability InteropFest for ATCA Building Blocks
Abstract: The CP-TA was launched to drive a mainstream market for interoperable communications platforms by solving interoperability issues that are not currently addressed by the existing specifications in the communications platforms industry. This white paper discusses how the CP-TA community plans to address interoperability issues in the manageability domain. It includes an overview of CP-TA and its objectives, describes the test configuration to be used by the CP-TA community and the relationship between the different documents and the tools to be released by the CP-TA. This white paper also details the certification process to be followed in CP-TA and discusses the future direction of CP-TA.
Thermal Interoperability of AdvancedTCA Shelf and Board
Abstract: This paper describes the AdvancedTCA* (ATCA) Shelf requirements to cool all the Boards and facilitate the interoperability of Shelf slots. It also covers the flow impedance issues of Boards and introduces a methodology of impedance balancing. Further, to date, there is no standard measurement technique that can be adopted to compare shelves in terms of air flow volume through each slot in the Shelf. This paper also describes a methodology of evaluating airflow volumes through each slot in an ATCA Shelf that can be used to benchmark each Shelf. The recent designs that populate the Board with mezzanine cards (AMCs) demand air flow at a higher flow impedance. The cooling challenges posed by the introduction of AMCs on a Board are enunciated as well. | 
