The PICMG® Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MicroTCATM ) specification defines the requirements for a system that uses PICMG Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AdvancedMCs) directly on a Backplane. This specification, MicroTCA.0, defines the general mechanical, electrical, thermal, and management properties of a MicroTCA Shelf necessary to support AMC.0-compliant Modules. MicroTCA has a primary purpose of serving as a platform for telecommunications and enterprise computer network equipment. Its secondary goal is to function as a platform for other demanding marketplaces, such as Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). MicroTCA is complementary to the PICMG3.0 Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA, or PICMG3). Where AdvancedTCA is optimized for very high capacity, high performance applications, MicroTCA is designed to address cost sensitive and physically smaller applications with lower capacity, performance, and perhaps less stringent availability requirements. MicroTCA preserves many of the important philosophies of AdvancedTCA, including basic interconnect topologies and management structure.
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