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Agilent Technologies Introduces Remote Management Processor

Posted on: Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:00 CDT

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced the industry's first remote management processor (RMP) to combine keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) over LAN with remote server management. The highly integrated Agilent N2533A processor is targeted at servers and plug-in cards.

Today's information technology infrastructures are complex environments to control and manage. OEMs are expected to provide customers with solutions to address this challenge. The new RMP chip's digital KVM and remote management features provide end-customers (IT administrators) with tools needed to increase IT productivity, such as using the Web to restore service and fix computer-related issues from anywhere on the network without the need for additional hardware.

The feature-rich N2533A is Agilent's fourth-generation, standards-based RMP. It performs IPMI 2.0 baseboard management and includes KVM over LAN and remote storage to control several management tasks. The N2533A minimizes server downtime while remotely managing power cycling, OS installation and BIOS upgrades. Agilent's highly integrated RMP solution reduces external component count, board space and system costs.

"There are companies that provide remote-management or KVM-only solutions, but Agilent is the first to combine these two important features in one chip," said Thomas Goetzl, worldwide marketing manager for Remote Systems Management and KVM Solutions in Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group. "As the market leader, our customers look to us to raise the bar and push remote management technology to the next level. We already offer the industry's most complete portfolio of chips, cards and turn-key software solutions for BMC, KVM over LAN and remote storage."

The Agilent N2533A RMP is being used by leading server OEMs such as HP and Stratus.

"Agilent's RMP4 solution offers a solid manageability framework for the HP Integrity server family," said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Servers, HP. "HP's work with companies like Agilent, combined with our unique capabilities in availability, security and flexibility, allows us to deliver remote management and cost of ownership benefits for enterprise customers."

"We selected the Agilent RMP chip for our next-generation serviceability platform that we're bundling with future Stratus ftServer products," said Tim Wegner, vice president of engineering at Stratus Technologies. "We are pleased Agilent has integrated its remote management technology into a single-chip solution, complemented by an open, extendable, standards-compliant firmware offering."

"Agilent's fourth-generation RMP is a welcome complement to Intel's server management offering for OEMs," said Hemant Dhulla, general manager of Intel's Manageability and Platform Software Division. "Agilent's solution takes maximum advantage of our component, and their digital KVM hardware and firmware enables a robust remote management solution for Intel-based servers used in corporate data centers and across the enterprise."

N2533A Features

The N2533A remote management processor is a fully integrated system-on-chip with a small and flexible hardware design that fits all server architectures. Features include:

-- ARM 926 embedded CPU, providing compatibility with Agilent's third-generation RMP processor.

-- Integrated video processing unit for KVM over LAN, supporting maximum video resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 at 70 Hz.

-- Integrated encryption hardware, ensuring highest level of security.

-- Integrated high-speed USB 2.0 device, simulating virtual keyboard, mouse and storage.

-- Integrated LAN interface and sideband interface, providing support for latest server LAN chips.

-- Integration of all interfaces needed for an IPMI-compliant baseboard management controller (BMC), including LPC, up to 9 I2C buses, and up to 54 GPIOs.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

The N2533A is supplied in an RoHS-compliant 384-pin PBGA package and is priced at $29 each in moderate volumes. Samples and production quantities, as well as development boards, are available now through Agilent's direct sales channel.

Further information on Agilent's remote systems management and KVM solutions is available at www.agilent.com/view/rmc.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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Source: Business Wire

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