Freescale Based Desktop Network Appliance

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Today Lanner Electronics Inc. released a Freescale based desktop network appliance with 5 GbE LAN ports.

(Taipei, Taiwan- March 4th, 2011) Today, Lanner Electronics Inc. has marked the Freescale based MR-350 network appliance for release to the general public. Using the QorIQ series CPUs, the MR-350 has high levels of integration and savvy power mechanics to enter a wide swath of network appliance applications. The desktop unit comes with 5 RJ-45 ports, onboard dual-channel DDR3 memory and NAND Flash Memory for booting and storage.

Lanner engineers are using Freescale technology to win the cost-sensitive network appliance market. Market research shows that Freescale CPUs and architecture offer significant advantage in terms of scalability in the market. Desktop network appliance sales are also increasing.

“Freescale offers the best system support for our series of desktop network appliances,” mused Jesse Chiang- Lanner Network Computing Product Planner. “While the MR-350 is the first Lanner processing platform to use the QorIQ CPUs, we are unveiling 3 more Freescale based products in the next 2 quarters. The Freescale CPUs allow the MR-350 to offer TCP/IP acceleration above its class.”

The MR-350 comes equipped with the Freescale P1011 / 1020 which offers 533MHz or 800MHz processor performance. Freescale design and internal technology allow these processors to utilize a multitude of tools to accelerate security protocols. These tools consist of advanced encryption standards, cyclical redundancy checks, data encryption standard execution, message digest execution, public key execution and a random number generator. In addition to these tools, Freescale technology is also able to increase information throughput by utilizing lossless flow control and enabling Jumbo Frame support.

The platform come with 5 RJ-45 LAN ports are controlled via Marvell 888E6171R Switch. There is 2MB of NOR Flash Memory for booting and 256MB NAND Flash for other storage purposes. Other I/O include 1 RJ45 Console Port and 1 USB 2.0 Port. There is an internal real time clock with its own designated power source.

The MR-350 comes with 2 separate SKUs depending on which Freescale CPU is needed.

For more information please go to: http://www.lannerinc.com/NPU/MR-350
Or contact a sales representative at sales@lannerinc.com.

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About Lanner
Founded in 1986 and publicly listed (TAIEX 6245) since 2003, Lanner Electronics, Inc. is an ISO 9001 certified designer and manufacturer of network application platforms, network video platforms and applied computing hardware for first-tier companies. Lanner's expertise also extends to include driver and firmware support, enabling customers to optimize hardware and software communication to achieve faster time to market. With headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in the U.S. and China, Lanner is uniquely positioned to deliver custom technical solutions with localized, value-added service. Lanner is an Associate Member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, a group of companies committed to developing modular, standards-based solutions based on technologies, processors, products, and services from Intel®.