• High Density : up to 20 Server Blades
• Serviceability : ease of service with individual and hot-swap components
• Simplicity : use of an open architecture (PICMG 2.16 compliant)
• High Availability : supports full I/O card hot-swap to PICMG 2.1 R2.0 and N+1 redundant hot-swap power supplies

June, 7th, 2004, Santa Clara CA - I-Bus announces the launch of their new C1221, a 12U CompactPCI Blade Server featuring High Avaliability "five nines" requirement. The C1221 is designed to deliver the high performance and bandwidth demanded by the emerging switch-fabric applications blade server, mission critical and computing intensive applications such as third-generation (3G) wireless, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), networking image processing, and other demanding telecom/data communication applications.

The C1221 provides a 20-slot backplane fully H.110 compliant, 3 individually hot-swappable blowers and a hot-swappable fan tray in a redundant push-pull configuration.


The I-Bus designed and manufactured 12U, PICMG 2.16 compliant CompactPCI enclosure features Windows NT/2000, Solaris and Linux Operating System support, a complete set of standards drives such as a floppy, CD-RW and Raid interface, 6 SCA SCSI drive bays and Four Hot-swap N+1 redundant power supplies. An additional feature includes an I-Bus fully IPMI compliant Chassis Management Controller with SNMP software option, providing indepedent speed control for the inidvidual blowers and and the fan array.

"A comprehensive design of this Compute Farm Platform is a fundamentally important aspect of creating a robust high performance and high availability computing system offefing optimized cooling, high density and the highest levels of reliability," says Alain ARNAUD, V.P Marketing at I-Bus.

With all of its high-availability features the C1221 overcomes most of the industry toughest problems and is the first blade server platform to guarantee the level of availability that surpasses the rest of the industry.