Product category:
Networking Hardware
News Release from: Axiomtek | Subject: NA-1801
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2005
Platform optimised for network
appliances
To meet the critical demand for hardware platforms that are able to handle today's bandwidth demands, Axiomtek has released an extreme networking appliance hardware platform solution.
To meet the critical demand for hardware platforms that are able to handle today's bandwidth demands, Axiomtek has released an extreme networking appliance hardware platform solution The platform has a low total cost of ownership (TCO) from a networking performance point of view, and can also be used as a VPN gateway, network bandwidth controller, SSL, firewall, IDS/IPS, and more
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The NA-1801 network appliance platform supports new generation Intel Pentium 4 processors (Prescott) with Intel 875 North Bridge chipsets.
It supports up to a total of eight gigabit Ethernet ports and supports extreme data transaction performance in a network layer.
The platform is optimised for datacommunications performance.
The Ethernet port configurations and combinations can be changed to fit different customer requirements.
The NA-1801 supports a LAN-bypass feature for abnormal status.
It can support different bypass levels with this feature such as power, BIOS boot, OS and application program failures.
"The software provider can decide to keep connections between two specific network segmentations if the device fails", said Philip Wei, Product Manager of the Axiomtek Industrial PC Division.
To offload CPU traffic and speed up VPN encryption/decryption performance, the NA platform also features one PCI-X 64bit/66MHz slot for VPN encryption boards or any compatible feature card expansions.
The baseboard can optimise the process performance through a VPN adapter card hardware engine.
In general, the NA-1801 can support DES, Triple-DES, AES encryptions, public key computations and other security protocol operations.
Powerful enclosure management features, including BIOS redirection to console port, LCM settings, and more, have been implemented so users can keep and manage their data easily.
Other optional features such as SMBus EEPROM are available as firmware upgrades from the software provider.
For system logins with monitoring and building control proxy, the NA-1801 has space for a 2.5in hard drive for software porting by software solution providers.
The baseboard has two serial ATA and two 44-pin IDE connectors built-in, so customers can use the serial ATA hard disks internally.
The embedded OS can be stored on DiskonModule or CompactFlash.
Other accessories are available such as a Mini PCI VGA module (AX92101) which can be used through the main board's Mini-PCI slot.
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