Caswell, Inc., a leader in design and manufacturing of high performance communication appliance and storage solutions, announced the high performance CAR-5000 networking appliance optimized for the new quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor C5500 series paired with the Intel® 3420 chipset. This innovative communication appliance not only provides high CPU computing performance, but also boosts I/O throughput with integrated PCI Express 2.0 solution at a very competitive price.Caswell's new CAR-5000 server grade network appliance features a 2U rack mount chassis, dual sockets for the Intel® Xeon® processors - with an integrated PCI Express 2.0 and memory controller, high- speed Intel® QuickPath Interconnect technology between the two processors, as well as Intel® Turbo Boost, Virtualization and Hyper-Threading Technologies - and the associated Intel® 3420 chipset to meet high performance computing requirements with up to 32 PCI Express 2.0 lanes and 12 PCI Express 1.0 lanes. Twelve DDR3 memory DIMMs support up to 96 GB system memory.
The CAR-5000 2-socket, 2U rack network appliance provides maximum performance while supplying a variety of Ethernet interfaces and Ethernet ports, helping reduce energy and deployment costs. The high concentration of computing power and redundancy makes the CAR-5000 the perfect choice for high performance networking applications, such as UTM, IPS, IDS, Anti-virus, Firewall, VPN, Content Filtering and much more to enhance our customers' applications.
