Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands, October 08, 2020 Portwell (www.portwell.eu) a world-leading innovator for Industrial PC (IPC) and embedded computing solutions, has announced new product lines in its Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) family of computing platforms for software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) appliances.
The new products offer the high throughput and connectivity options required to support the demanding requirements of 5G cellular and Wi-Fi® 6 applications. Both the ANS-2141/42 and the ANS-8A64P are compact rack-mount units – two can fit side-by-side in a 1U slot.
The new IPC platforms, which are based on an Intel Atom® processor, are backed by software support to ease implementation in SD-WAN system designs, including DPDK, Open vSwitch and a PoE+ API. The software includes sample code for a software switch.
The ANS-2141 is based on the Apollo Lake x5-E3940 version of the Intel Atom processor with four cores, and the ANS-2142 on the x5-E3930 with two cores.
The ANS-2141/42 platforms also feature:
- Two or eight Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) RJ45 ports, with optional Power-over-Ethernet+ (PoE+) support
- RJ45 console
- One HDMI and two USB3.0 ports
- One DDR3L SO-DIMM module with ECC and capacity up to 8GB, and offering throughput of 1866MT/s, 1600MT/s or 1333MT/s
- 16GB eMMC for data storage
- TPM2.0 module
- Mini-PCIe (PCIe/USB2.0) interface
- M.2 Key-B slot for PCIe/USB3.0
- SATA III port
- Two micro SIM slots
The new ANS-8A64P is a computing platform for SD-WAN appliances based on the Intel Atom Denverton (C3000 series) processor featuring four or eight cores. Offering a compact design and rich connections, it provides the high data throughput required for use in network distribution systems as well as in data centers. It is also suitable as a platform for edge computing applications in the factory, office, data center and elsewhere.
Key features of the ANS-8A64P include:
- Two SFP+ 10GbE ports
- Up to 12 GbE ports
- Up to 12 ports of PoE/PoE+
- RJ45 console
- Two DDR4 SO-DIMM modules with ECC and capacity up to 32GB, and offering throughput of 2400MT/s or 2133MT/s
- Two USB 3.0 ports
- TPM 2.0 module
- Mini-PCIe (PCIe/USB2.0) interface
- M.2 Key-B slot for PCIe/USB3.0
- SATA III connector
