Hewlett Packard Co. announced a smaller AC-powered Integrity NonStop server targeted toward emerging telecommunications companies in eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

DC power has been the standard in the telco industry, but Bob Kossler, director of NonStop product management, said the market they’re targeting doesn’t have DC as the standard power source — they have AC.

“We are trying to provide this particular solution into those spaces,” he said. “We’re trying meet the customer demand for that demographic.”

The new server also doesn’t have earthquake hardening, which most DC-powered servers for the telco industry have to help maintain uptime during extreme weather. What it does have that is specific to telcos is what Kossler called the “whole protocol stack that telecom operators tend to use,” such as the SS7 protocol.

The Integrity NonStop NS3000AC can have two or four Intel Itanium 2 processors, scales between 4 and 8 GB of memory, and starts at about $350,000.