Application Fact Sheet Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. ACCESS/EDGE Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... MULTISERVICE PLATFORM ATM/IP/FR LINE CARD KEY BENEFITS • Realize great efficiencies of design with a single “platform” architecture for virtually any flavor of MSP line card • Software upgradeable line cards can easily address evolving standards and new services — and minimize OEM and service provider risk • True, fine-grained, multiservice support for high numbers of users • Get to market faster with streamlined development and C-programmable solutions OVERVIEW One of the greatest challenges of OEMs building multiservice platforms (MSPs) is maximizing their return on investment (ROI). With the massive network build-outs of the past few years and falling bandwidth prices putting pressure on margins, achieving better ROI can be challenging, especially for the access and edge multiservice platform market. The market is diverse with single MSPs accommodating a mixture of ATM, Frame Relay, IP, MPLS, and PoS, with port speeds ranging from subT1/E1 to OC-3 to full duplex OC-48c/STM-16 links. Emerging applications including packetized voice (VoIP) and 2.5G/3G wireless backbone networks add further to the demands of scalability and adaptability. And with converging applications (data/ voice/video) come issues of Quality of Service (QoS). cannot easily adapt to new and evolving standards. The ability to upgrade software versus forklift upgrades is paramount. By implementing greater hardware integration and ‘soft’ implementation of functionality in an MSP product design, vendors will see a significant increase in ROI. For example, to be able to take a previous solution consisting of two cards and replace it by a single line card, vendors will automatically see ROI gains — and increasing port density per card creates even better financial performance. And within that one line card, vendors need to support both ATM/Frame Relay technologies and IP/ MPLS services, plus be able to upgrade functionality in software. Both OEMs and their customers will benefit from this type of solution. DESIGN CHALLENGES A common architecture of a multiservice system today is a rack or shelf with multiple flavors of line cards with a common backplane bus and control processor card. The backplane is often ATM-based. These line cards can be dedicated to a specific function such as IP, ATM, or Frame Relay or combine functions, such as ATM and Frame Relay on a single line card. Interworking among the cards is provided by routing to other cards within the shelf across the switch fabric. MOTOROLA® SOLUTION Motorola's C-Port™ network processor family enables a new approach to MSP design that delivers a broad solution set within a highly integrated hardware and software platform providing flexibility and adaptability. With C-Port family network processors, traffic management coprocessors, and channel adapters, vendors can create a hybrid line card capable of incorporating multiprotocol capabilities and standards on a cost-efficient platform, which can be easily integrated into existing and new multiservice switches. Typically, these solutions are not easily scalable in terms of increasing bandwidths, implementing new interfaces, or adding new services. Any solution for the access and edge markets needs to offer a range of speeds and physical interfaces for today's applications and an easy migration path for future applications — including a more IP-centric network. In addition, today’s MSPs The C-5e™ network processor (NP) consists of sixteen programmable, full duplex CPs (Channel Processors). Each CP can be programmed for a particular service/ application (ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet, SONET, and so on), and CPs can be aggregated for a wide spectrum of data streams such as Fast Ethernet to OC-12c to OC-48c on a single C-5e NP. To increase your bandwidth and For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... MSP line card solution providing interworking of ATM, IP, and Frame Relay and supporting a diversity of interfaces and channelization — same software base can be used with multiple line cards computing power, two C-5e NPs can used to scale your system up to 10Gbps aggregate bandwidth. Multiple C-5e NPs, used with a switch fabric, can achieve Terabits per second bandwidth. A single C-5e NP-based interface card design can be built with a variety of different PHY interface types. For example, the C-5e NP architecture can support up to: • 16 10/100 Ethernet interfaces • 4 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces • 16 OC-3c/STM-1 interfaces • 4 OC-12c/STM-4 interfaces • 1 OC-48c/STM-16 interface (with assistance of the M-5 Channel Adapter) • 1 OC-48 interface connecting up to 48 logical interfaces Cost efficiencies can be realized through integrated functions on the C-5e NP, including Ethernet MACs and SONET framers, which speed system development, simplify device design, and lower total system costs. With Motorola’s Smart Networks Alliance program, industrystandard interfaces enable system designers to gluelessly integrate additional hardware. For example, the C-5e NP has a glueless interface to the IBM™ Packet Routing Switch Fabric, in addition to conforming to standard CSIX-L1, Utopia 2, and Utopia 3 interfaces. With the addition of Motorola’s tightly integrated Traffic Management Coprocessors (TMCs), advanced QoS configurations can be implemented such as active queue management, policing and shaping, and scheduling of flows — all programmed using the C-Port family QoS APIs. Software for ATM, Frame Relay, MPLS, SARing and SONET can be implemented in the C-5e NP, which handles all the forwarding plane software. Through a tight coupling to a host processor, such as Motorola’s MPC750, which runs control/management plane software, even more advanced services can be achieved. Further adaptability via a stable, standard API ensures that system design investments can be carried forward. Thus, one basic hardware design, matched with many different PHY interfaces, combined with applications that are fully software programmable yields a vast range of different solutions leveraging a common platform. By using the C-Port family in an MSP line card design, a multi-year phased product delivery can be radically condensed, offering a massive time-to-market competitive advantage. For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT The C-Port family development environment consists of the following components: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... • C-Ware™ Applications Library (CAL) — Comprehensive set of reference applications for building networking systems based on Motorola’s C-Port family. The CAL significantly accelerates customer software development by providing extensive reference source code that is instrumented for and tested with the CST. • C-Ware Software Toolset (CST) — Functional and performance accurate simulation environment, standard GNU-based compiler and debugger, GUI performance analysis tool, traffic scripting tools, and comprehensive C-Ware APIs. • C-Ware Development System (CDS) — Compact PCI chassis with Motorola MPC750 Host Application Module, which can also include NP Switch Modules, TMC Daughter Cards, and various Physical Interface Modules (PIMS). Complete hardware reference designs also available. MOTOROLA ORDERING INFORMATION PART NUMBER NAME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PCC3E0RX180WB0B C-3e NP 5.5 W @ 180 MHz Motorola.com/networkprocessors PCC5E0RX266WB0B C-5e NP 9.0 W @ 266 MHz Motorola.com/networkprocessors PCQ500RX000WA0A Q-5 TMC 5Gbps throughput Motorola.com/networkprocessors PCM500ZUTA0A M-5 Channel Adapter 3.0 W @ 104 MHz Motorola.com/networkprocessors MPC750 PowerPC Motorola.com/PowerPC C-Ware Software Toolset Web site download of current CST release (Windows or UNIX) C-Ware Development System CDS Base Unit (Chassis, Power Supply, Single Board Computer) CSTC501W CDEV101A† * The CST can be downloaded from motorola.cportcorp.com/support † Ask your sales representative or distributor for details and availability of system modules, which you order separately. SMART NETWORKS ALLIANCES VENDOR DESCRIPTION CONTACT For high-performance security processing Tel: 480-648-2300 [email protected] IBM For switch fabric solutions Tel: 33 4 92 11 56 40 Fax: 33 4 92 11 00 23 [email protected] IDT™ For advanced classification Tel: 613-724-6004 Fax: 613-724-6008 Wind River Systems For Tornado for Managed Switches and RTOS Tel: 800-545-9463 Fax: 510-814-2010 Corrent Vendors may also select Wind River® Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS) to program the host processor/control plane software. Motorola has established an alliance with Wind River to provide integration of the C-Port network processors with TMS 2.0 supporting both Layer 2 and Layer 3 services. In addition, the Host Application Module in the CDS runs VxWorks® on the MPC750. * ™ For More Information On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc... RELATED INFORMATION For inquiries about Motorola products, please contact the Motorola Customer Care Center at 800-521-6247, or visit us online at Motorola.com/smartnetworks. © 2003 Motorola. C-3e, C-5, C-5e, C-Port, Q-5, M-5, and C-Ware are trademarks of Motorola Inc. Motorola and the stylized Motorola logo are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc. All other products or service names are the property of their owners. CPORTMSP-FS/D For MoreRev Information 03, March 2003 On This Product, Go to: www.freescale.com