Freescale Based Desktop Network Appliance

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.