RadiSys and LCR Electronics Partner to Deliver Ruggedized ATCA Solutions

RadiSys Corp., a global provider of embedded solutions, and LCR Electronics, Inc., a company engaged in designing and manufacturing custom rugged backplane and chassis systems and other components, announced a collaboration to deliver ruggedized AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platform solutions to the military, aerospace and government (MAG) market segments.

In a release, the group noted that with the increase in demand for programs such as land mobile communications, aerospace surveillance and maritime networks that must collect and process large amounts of data in harsh environments, the need for reliable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems is more pressing than ever. Ruggedized ATCA standards-based solutions provide both reliability and high performance under extreme conditions. RadiSys and LCR Electronics enable MAG customers to leverage a ruggedized ATCA platform for command and control as well as network appliance solutions that require high bandwidth and high performance in aircraft, ships and ground mobile equipment.

"We are pleased to partner with LCR Electronics to deliver ruggedized, high performance ATCA solutions for the MAG market," said Venkataraman Prasannan, senior director, ATCA Product Line, RadiSys. "LCR Electronics has deployed systems in some of the most extreme conditions, and their expertise in customizing for the MAG sector is superior. The flexibility of our best-in-class ATCA building blocks coupled with LCR Electronics' MIL- Qualified ATCA ruggedized chassis provides our customers with the opportunity to develop applications with minimum integration effort, enabling flexibility and faster time-to-market."

RadiSys' portfolio of Promentum ATCA products are already being deployed in a multitude of communications networks under stringent reliability environments such as NEBS. The military and aerospace environments and their respective network-centric applications are similar in nature. MAG customers could easily take advantage of the portfolio of the ATCA solutions by combining the COTS solutions available from RadiSys with ruggedized chassis from LCR Electronics. LCR Electronics has developed and fielded the industry's first truly ruggedized ATCA chassis tested to, and complying with, MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-167 specifications making them suitable for deployment in a ruggedized environment. The two companies, working together, will deliver RadiSys' Promentum building blocks in LCR Electronics' ruggedized KBWD chassis portfolio. This collaboration has already yielded an integrated system solution on two military programs.

"As the leading provider of ATCA systems and building blocks, RadiSys was the natural choice for us to work with to deliver ATCA platform solutions," said Tom Malek, product manager, LCR Electronics. "The depth and breadth of their offering combined with our MIL-STD tested chassis gives our customers the flexibility, performance and reliability to meet any situation, whether its 50,000 feet in the air or traversing down a jungle track."

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