- A commercial off-the-shelf platform designed to help lower total cost of ownership and help accelerate new revenue generation opportunities for telecommunications and service providers - Innovative, modular design delivers the reliability, flexibility and performance density capable of supporting an IP-based, next-generation network application infrastructure integrating voice, data and multimedia - Integration of servers, I/O, storage, operating systems and applications into a single, compact network platform that is ideal for deploying autonomic capabilities, enabling an on demand operating environment IBM BladeCenter T delivers rich telecommunications features and functionality, including integrated servers, storage and networking, fault-tolerant features, optional hot-swappable redundant AC or DC power supplies and cooling, and built-in systems management resources in a 20" deep chassis.