The Effective Series 14 slot ATCA chassis offers the reliability and availability of the Telco-grade standards in a cost- effective package. Suitable for cost-sensitive, yet demanding applications, the Effective Series 14 slot chassis has been designed to maximize performance while minimizing costs. It uniquely offers greater computing density in its ability to carry 14 slot in a 12U chassis, while maintaining the ATCA requirements.

In order to meet the ATCA standard and minimize cost, Asis has designed a cost effective cooling system for the Effective Series 14 slot ATCA chassis  The cooling system implements a pull-only cooling method using the latest fan and airflow technologies. The system has been verified to meet the 200W per slot requirement, while maintaining the NEBS requirement for noise reduction.  

The Effective Series 14 slot ATCA chassis offers two shelf manager components to choose from:

Shelf Manager Pro - a fully featured shelf manager, based on Pigeon Point™ software. This shelf manager was developed in cooperation with Pigeon Point™ and designed to minimize footprint in order to reduce cost, while maintaining the highest performance and conformance with the ATCA standard.

 Shelf Manager Basic– a cost-effective and basic shelf manager, designed and developed by ASIS. This Shelf Manager does not include OEM shelf manger software as it offers the most basic functionality. The reduced cost software was designed to manage and control the fans only. The  Shelf  Manager Basic is perfect for cost-sensitive applications and for development purposes. 

Based on extensive practical experience and comprehensive signal integrity studies, Asis has been able to develop the most cost effective backplane in the market. The design offers unprecedented optimization between cost and performance by reducing the number of layers.