Pushing performance levels

摘要

The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture, or ATCA, has been in the market for more than a decade. Ratified by industry group PICMG in December 2002, the standard was the largest development effort in the organisation's history, involving more than 100 companies. While ATCA was developed originally to meet the next generation communications needs of telecomms related applications, the standard has also been adapted for ruggedised applications, mainly in the military and aerospace sectors, but also in physics research.