Lanner today introduced the NCA-1252, a desktop appliance powered by Intel® Atom X7809C/X7405C Processors (codenamed Amston Lake), and an AI-enhanced network appliance for software-defined WAN optimization and security.
The NCA-1252 offers robust multi-core (4 or 8) computing power in a compact desktop form factor. Together with the Intel® Atom X7809C/X7405C Processors, this gateway appliance can be a cost-effective network platform for small and medium enterprises, retail, branch offices and those looking to deploy any edge security application.
In spite of its small foot-print, the NCA-1252 offers speedy networking I/O, supporting up to 2x 2.5GbE RJ45, 4x GbE RJ45, 2x 10GbE SFP+ ports (by SKU) and 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM. Other features include onboard EMMC 64GB (SKU A), 1x pair of gen3 bypass (SKU A), 1x RJ45 console, 1x USB 3.2 port, 1x M.2 SATAIII 2280 B Key, dual M.2 3042/3052 B Key, M.2 2230 E Key, 3x nano SIM slots and TPM 2.0.
With Intel Amston Lake, the NCA-1252 delivers upgraded performance, not only bringing improved CPU and integrated GPU performance for edge to industrial, communications and media processing use cases, but also making available AI inference performance improvement with Intel® AVX2, Intel® Deep Learning Boost and OpenVINO toolkit support for high-value industrial deployment scenarios.
The NCA-1252 provides next-gen performance, exceptional packet processing throughput and power efficiency for network edge use cases such as SD-WAN and uCPE, supporting not only the detection of zero-day threats with the built-in deep learning inference capabilities but also accelerated crypto performance using AES-NI, Intel® AVX2.
All in all, the NCA-1252 delivers value-driven compute capabilities, affording most enterprises the opportunity to maximize the value of their technology investments.