1U comms appliance boosts power and bandwidth

A Portwell Technology product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 8, 2007

The NAR-5620/5622 is an energy-efficient high-powered 1U communication appliance platform.

New from American Portwell Technology, the NAR-5620/5622 is an energy-efficient high-powered 1U communication appliance platform.

Combining the latest Intel 3100 chipset with the Core Duo, Pentium M or Celeron M mobile processors, the NAR-5620/5622 optimises computing power and energy efficiency to provide the perfect solution for software providers who need a platform with both greater computing performance reliability and manageability, greater power efficiency, higher throughput, faster memory and I/O bandwidth, and faster data movement.

Portwell's NAR-5620/5622 features extremely high and flexible network bandwidth configurations that range up to six PCI-E SFP connectors or eight PCI-E copper ports, and two PCI32 GbE ports.

By using the Intel 3100 chipset, the NAR-5620/5622 supports server-grade I/O and is able to fulfil increasing demands in the network security segment.

The NAR-5620/5622's DDR-2 400MHz memory technology is perfect for application buffering and memory-intensive applications.

Available now, Portwell's new NAR-5620/5622 1U CA platform is the ideal solution for security applications such as enterprise Internet security, firewall, wide area network optimisation, unified threat management, network access control, network behaviour analyser and triple play broadcasting for both the enterprise and medium-sized offices.

"Performance-per-watt has been the IT industry's barometer for the last decade", says Aaron Chiang, American Portwell Technology's Senior Product Marketing Manager: "and high computing power and low energy consumption is major consideration when determining the efficiency of computing platforms - particularly in the arena of network security, where applications often run 24/7".

"Once the domain of the enterprise, this combination of high performance, high reliability, low-power consumption, small footprint platforms is now attainable by the medium-sized offices too, as attested by our new NAR-5620/5622", adds Chiang.

"Portwell's NAR-5620/5622 uses Intel 3100 chipset-based architecture to achieve this integration of power and economy and ECC/unbuffered memory to speed up the data-moving performance".

According to Frank Shen, American Portwell Technology's Product Marketing Director, the new NAR-5620/5622 has been designed to excel as a network appliance platform.

"Today's networks demand multicore technology because more and more applications run in parallel", explains Shen, "and by blending the multicore processing capabilities of Intel's socket M mobile processors, such as Core Duo, with the Intel 3100 chipset, we've been able to help our customers address these computing challenges by offering significant performance and efficiency in the same package - with the scalability for future processor innovations that we know will come".

"And with the longevity of lifespan built into all Portwell products, the NAR-5620/5622 will be ready to meet them", he adds.

"Like the other members of the NAR family", continues Shen, "the new NAR-5620/5622 offers software providers the opportunity to meet the needs of today's security-conscious users by delivering server-class performance in a compact footprint, at a competitive price".