The information security industry is experiencing increasingly sophisticated niche solutions for specific needs such as WAN optimization, email security, application delivery, and intrusion prevention systems. Lanner’s FX-7210 was designed to combine these different requirements into one single network appliance using two motherboards. To accomplish such high IPS throughput rates, FX-7210 uses two motherboards. The primary motherboard is a standard x86 board with sockets to support two Intel Xeon C5500 or C5600 processors, and the Intel 5520 chipset. The secondary motherboard is customized to fit the requirements of the client. In the case of the IPS appliance, the high throughput requirement meant that a RISC-based motherboard was used.
Made for the telecom industry, FX-7210 have many of the benefits found in ATCA systems, but comes with a lower price tag. An advanced I/O blade design makes it possible to configure up to 36 1GbE network ports or twelve 10GbE ports, in an array of SFP or copper combinations. The motherboards are designed with trays to make field replacement quick and efficient, and redundant power supplies helps to minimize downtime.
