Jun
05
2008
IBM Announces New Blade Intelligent Copper PassThru Module
Posted by: Aaron Delp in IBM BladesI saw this article over at xAnalysis and after some digging I came up with the new CPM Product Announcement . The big difference I can see is the new product no longer requires "octopus" cables. The announcement states the product will have 14 external network connections to match one:one the internal blade connections. I would love to see a picture on this sucker, I can’t believe they managed to get that many ports on a module.
UPDATE: Simon was nice enough to leave a comment with a link to the product picture . That is an impressive use of real estate!
UPDATE#2: I have learned the ICPM also supports Serial Over LAN (SOL) and KVM. Also, the ports will switch to 100MB speed instead of the previous requirement for 1GB.
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hi
they have a picture on their product Page..
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/openfabric/ethernet.html
simon
Cool! Thank you very much for the link! I will update the article with the link in a bit. I can’t believe they got all 14 ports on there. Impressive!
Aaron
Changed the content on xAnalisys.com to hold the information from the announcement. Also added the picture from the link from Simon. Thanks guys for all the updates and interaction.
Great Stuff! Thank you very much!