Network threats require enhanced security for access control, user authentication, and attack protection, concerns which require a leap in performance-particularly VPN performance. VPN performance is critical, yet many medium-sized businesses have typically been priced out of VPN acceleration, resulting in compromised features and performance.

To address this, a new breed of platforms based on Intel's new EP80579 Integrated Processor deliver untouchable performance for less than half the price of previous platforms. With as much as 1600 Mbps of VPN throughput, they deliver a "no-compromises" approach to security for medium-sized businesses.

Advantech's new Intel® EP80579-based FWA-3240 illustrates these advantages. Initial results yield 1600 Mbps IPsec VPN throughput, with as little as 10% CPU utilization, power reduction of almost 20%, and decreases in board size of nearly 45 percent.

OEM's can forgo specialized co-processors and dedicated security hardware while remaining cost-effective (up to 50% reduction) and extremely power-efficient.

The SoC is backwards code-compatible with earlier Intel® processors allowing security vendors to run existing software applications on Intel® EP80579.

Intel® EP80579 delivers performance without sacrificing programmability, providing enough CPU margin to respond to dynamic threats while offering the capacity for additional value-added software services. Medium-sized businesses can benefit from VPN acceleration without having to compromise on features and performance.

Compared to past solutions, Intel® EP80579 offers dramatic improvements in cost, power, and board space, while offering major advances in throughput and headroom. With all of these advantages, Intel® EP80579 is set to revolutionize the network appliance market.

My best friend sold her house today. In the midst of the
gloom and doom of foreclosures a normal house sale went through. It got me
thinking about the high tech business where there is still plenty of buying and
selling going on if the products fit the needs. At Kontron we have taken great
care to offer our customers options when they buy Kontron embedded
industrial servers so they can get the configuration that suits their needs.
Just as my friend selected the flooring and cabinets in her new home,
Kontron customers can select among CPU/chipsets, memory, drives and
accessories for their embedded multicore server systems.

Moving single core applications to multicore processing
involves investing resources to take advantage of the resource allocation and
capacity management capabilities of multicore. It is a lasting decision. The
payoff is improved application performance. Selecting the right system
configuration is part of the transition process.

Once the decision to migrate an application to a multi-core
Kontron industrial server has been made, that decision doesn’t have to be re-evaluated
to deploy additional industrial servers. Since Kontron supports the sale of the
embedded motherboards and SBCs used in the Kontron embedded server line for up
to seven years, requalification is rarely an issue for years to come. Invest
your valuable time in decisions that last.

Kontron - Nancy Pantone

Embedded system designers have many fewer processor and chipset options than colleagues designing enterprise class systems. AdvancedTCA is a great platform for NEBS compliant, carrier grade systems but the 200W per blade power envelope further restricts the options for system designers. So the introduction of new processors and chipsets with lower power and extended life cycles, that have been developed with ATCA in mind, is an important development that opens up new opportunities for system designers.

With the introduction of the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series embedded performance has moved to the next level. These 45nm devices not only integrate twice the number of cores found in a dual core 5100 series processor but also 50% more cache per core, further increasing performance. As discussed in a recent Webinar hosted by Light Reading quad core processors can dramatically increase system performance, especially in embedded applications which are usually well suited to parallel execution.

For embedded systems in general, and ATCA based systems in particular, performance per watt is a key parameter. This metric needs to be applied to a complete board implementation not just the processor, so chipset and memory are also important. The Intel® 5100 MCH chipset delivers significant power savings with DDR2 memories instead of power hungry FBDIMMS. Combining the latest quad core processors and chipsets delivers increases in performance per watt of over 70%.

According to a recent report on ATCA from Heavy Reading there are already five vendors with dual-core Intel® Xeon® Processor based ATCA blades. With the significant increase in performance per watt offered by the combination of Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5400 Series, Intel® 5100 MCH chipset and DDR2 memory we can expect to see these vendors, and more, bringing out ATCA blades with two quad core processor devices, delivering greater than 2x performance within the 200W power envelope.