The 2900-01 Gateway Server is designed for demanding call processing/AIN applications and is typically installed between a telecommunications switch and application servers. AIN applications facilitate calling services like local number portability, call following, and other advanced telephony
services. The server uses two processors; a dual core PowerPC processor as a main processor and a Power QUICC (Power PC based communications processor) as a link processor. The two processors are connected by a 20 Gb/s interprocessor bus.
The link processor section of the board features eight T1/E1 ports that may be configured as either ATM or TDM, and two 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports. The main processor also has two 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet ports leading to total of four Ethernet ports.

As the 2900-01 is designed for high reliability systems and typically installed in redundant configurations, there are numerous features to improve system up-time like two redundant hot swappable power supplies, a fault tolerant and field replaceable fan tray, and comprehensive system monitoring.

The 2900-01 is available in either dual AC or dual DC power supply configurations and is supported by
VxWorks and Linux BSPs.