Axiomtek NA-360 network appliance system

Axiomtek has announced the network appliance product NA-360. The scalable, 1U, rack-mountable, network appliance system supports a range of CPUs, including the single-core Intel Celeron 725C, the dual-core Intel Pentium B915, Intel Core i3-2115C and the Intel Xeon processor E3 1105C and E5 1125C.

The product comes with eight gigabit ethernet ports and two groups of LAN bypass segments. A LAN port module expansion slot allows developers to customise and scale the product based on their solution requirements. The system is flexible and customisable with a PCI Express Mini Card slot and a PCIe x8 slot. Two DDR3 1333 MHz DIMM sockets can provide storage of up to 16 GB and support both ECC and non-ECC memory types. The system also offers powerful storage interfaces featuring two 2.5″ SATA HDD or one 3.5″ SATA HDD and one CompactFlash socket.

The product comes with full support for the Intel Data Plane Development Kit and Intel QuickAssist Technology that improves packet processing, encryption and decryption, as well as data and file compression/decompression. The system supports LAN bypass function and features BIOS console redirection. There is a front-facing LCD module activity indicator for convenient monitoring of power and HDD activity. The platform supports mainstream Linux operating systems.

The product is suitable for variety of applications including VPN, firewall and security applications, network bandwidth controller, WAN accelerator and surveillance system. The Intel Communications Chipset DH8903CC brings hardware acceleration services for efficient cryptographic and compression/decompression which offload the processor for control and data plane processing.