NCA-5210 is empowered by the Intel 14nm micro-architecture CPU, Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v5 series. Built with Intel’s next gen 3D Tri-gate transistors, the adoption of Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v5 series comes with the promise to enhance processor performance, while lowering the TDP. A socket type, LGA 1151, has also been released for the die-shrinking architecture. In terms of memory efficiency, NCA-5210 supports dual-channel DDR4 with frequency up to 2133MHz and capacity up to 64GB by 4 x 16GB DIMM. ECC is also supported.
Another interesting feature of NCA-5210 is the use of Intel C236 series chipset. The PCH brings up a huge upgrade for PCI Express. With the socket LGA 1151, NCA-5210 supports up to 20 PCIe Gen3.0 lanes and M.2 socket, giving you 40% more high-speed I/O ports with increased port flexibility.
NCA-5210 is introduced for network traffic security, cloud computing and data centres. Along with the adoption of the Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v5 series, NCA-5210 offers useful I/O functionalities. NCA-5210 supports one mSATA socket and one 3.5” or two SATA 2.5” HDD/SSD trays for storage purposes. Regarding expansions, NCA-5210 is designed with two Ethernet NIC module sockets at the front or with the option of a rear PCI riser card at the rear on the same side. For remote management purpose, NCA-5210 comes with an OPMA socket for IPMI card insertion.
Another significant feature of NCA-5210 is the flexible LAN configurations. Depending on the SKUs, there are Ethernet connectivity options of 8 x RJ-45 GbE LAN + 2 x NIC module sockets and 12 x RJ-45 GbE LAN, 4 x SFP GbE Fiber + 2 NIC module sockets.