Taiwan-based Lanner Electronics, Inc. announced availability of its 1U rack mount appliance built on the Intel 5520 chipset (Tylersburg) and Intel Xeon 5500 processor (Nehalem). The Lanner FW-8875 supports a wide range of network modules in its three module bay chassis. Lanner offers a range of network module options including gigabit copper, gigabit fiber, fiber bypass and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports. The FW-8875 is designed as a platform for enterprise-class network security and acceleration solutions such as UTM, VPN firewall, WAN acceleration and gateway antivirus/anti-spam/URL filtering appliances.
According to Lanner the FW-8875 offers the highest level of performance and flexibility in a 1U rack mount form factor on the market. The FW-8875 supports one Intel Xeon 5500 processor and up to 24 GByte of tri-channel DDR3 memory. It offers two 2.5″ drive bays, four SATA ports, one CompactFlash socket for storage and up to 20 network ports in flexible configurations via its three network module bays.
Additionally, the FW-8875 offers an optional onboard Cavium Octeon security accelerator to offload compute-intensive tasks from the CPU, granting higher throughput for network security and acceleration applications.
Jesse Chiang, Lanner Network Communications Product Planner: “Lanner has developed over 10 network modules that fit in our 1U and 2U appliances. These modules provide more flexibility in end system design because you can mix and match the number and types of network ports to suit the network environment. […] The modular approach also saves solution vendors time and expense because they can develop and test on a single platform, then simply add or remove modules to suit the end customer’s network, without having to rework the software to match another hardware platform.”
The Lanner FW-8875 is ought to be available for orders immediately. (Source: Lanner Electronics, Inc./GST)