CHICAGO--A new equipment vendor is launching at the Globalcomm trade show with plans to sell cards for carrier networking gear based on the modular Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA).

Aviva Networks is introducing its first two products at the show, both 10 Gb/s network processing cards: a so-called “IP acceleration” card and a security and encryption card that includes a session initiation protocol stack for voice-over-IP service. The IP acceleration card includes traffic management capabilities that can classify different traffic types through deep packet inspection, prioritize them and bill them separately.

“This is a key feature missing from ATCA today,” said Paul Sethy, Aviva’s founder and chief executive officer.

ATCA, a group of specifications driven by Intel and Motorola, allows the modular creation of telecom gear through the assembly of interoperable off-the-shelf subsystems. One of its goals is to lower the price of telecom gear by increasing the interchangeability of network hardware elements.

Equipment vendors appear to have mixed views of ATCA. Lambda Optical Systems, for example, is debuting an ATCA-based reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer at the show. At the same time, a spokesperson for Ciena, which is introducing its own ROADM at the show, said ATCA’s modular interchangeable dynamics may allow little room for vendors to differentiate themselves.

Aviva hopes to begin beta testing the two cards toward the end of this year, with commercial availability in next year’s first quarter. Next year, the company plans to market its gear toward voice-over-IP, 3G wireless and IPTV applications.