[ 2014/09/17 ]
ADLINK Technology, Inc., a leading global provider of cloud-based services, intelligent gateways and embedded building blocks for edge devices that enable the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the CSA-5200/5100 Series, its new 1U/2U rackmount Network Appliance with 4th Generation Intel® processor Xeon® E3-1200 v3 and C226 Chipset. The CSA-5200 Series supports ADLINK's networking software package: PacketManager and is ideal for use in unified threat management (UTM), next-generation firewall (NGFW), deep packet inspection(DPI) and other network security applications.
Unique among its competitors, the CSA-5200/5100 Series Network Appliance is an ADLINK Application Ready Intelligent Platform (ARIP) designed specifically for network communications with full support for the ADLINK PacketManager, a software package that includes Control Plane configuration tools and Data Plane packet processing acceleration capabilities. Empowered by the ADLINK PacketManager, the CSA-5200/5100 Series brings a breakthrough in DPI/security performance and packet processing, with up to 11 times faster Layer 3 forwarding performance and 4 times faster DPI performance compared to that of native Linux.
The ADLINK CSA-5200/5100 Series features high scalability through four expansion slots for Network Interface Modules (NIM) with a choice of GbE, SFP and SFP+ ports; four 2.5"/3.5" SATA drive bays on the 2U model (CSA-5200); and one 2.5" SATA drive bay plus two mSATA SSD slots on the 1U model (CSA-5100). Flexible storage support is provided in the form of SATADOM and CFast slots, and one PCIe slot is available for a hardware accelerator card to offload processor-intensive security tasks.
The ADLINK CSA-5200/5100 Series is designed for customers who are seeking a flexible and compact design, improved DPI/security performance, accelerated packet processing, high reliability and stability, good cost-performance ratio, and fast time-to-market. With over 10 years' experience in the telecom and networking industries, ADLINK is able to provide our customers with a variety of application-ready solutions suited to their needs.