FWA-6170 2U Rackmount Network Appliance with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Series, up to 8 NMC slots

Features2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8100, Gold 6100 & 5100, Silver 4100 and Bronze 3100 processors up to 165W TDP4 x DDR4 2133/2400/2666 ECC registered memory up to 768GBC626 PCH, 40Gb/s QAT support8 x NMC (Network Mezzanine Card) slots for a wide range of GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE NMCs with or without Advanced LAN bypass.Optional support 4 x HDD kit (for 2.5" HDD) on the top NMC slots2 x internal PCIe x8 slots support for low-profile add-on cards2 x 2.5" removable external SATA HDDs/SSDsIPMI 2.0 compliant Remote ManagementDescriptionBased on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family, the FWA-6170 high-end network appliance has been designed for maximum performance, scalability and functionality in a 2U rack mount footprint. Equipped with a choice of processors from the Intel® Xeon® Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze series, this high-end network communications appliance is optimized for computing power, accelerated workloads and high speed, high density I/O with best-in-class energy efficiency.Two Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family CPUs provide the latest architectural enhancements, including rebalanced cache hierarchy, and new Intel® UltraPath Interconnect for increased bandwidth and transfer rates between sockets at up to 10.4GT/s. In addition the new processor family introduces 512-bit vector capability at up to 2x improvement in peak performance over previous AVX2 for the acceleration of enterprise-class workloads. Each socket now supports 6 memory channels and up to 12 DDR4 RDIMMs, an increase of 1.5x over the previous generation FWA-6520, with a speed increase to 2666 MHz for up to 768GB of ECC memory using the latest technology. Advanced RAS modes such as mirroring and sparing increase platform reliability. The FWA-6170’s thermal system design enables support for processors with up to 165W TDP. This allows the appliance to scale from 8 core CPUs to the highest performance 28 core processors available today.With an abundance of PCI Express lanes, the FWA-6170 can support up to 8 Network Mezzanine Cards (NMCs) for modular, configurable networking I/O and acceleration. PCIe Gen3 technology on all NMC slots provides sufficient bandwidth to support multiple 40GbE and quad 10GbE modules as well as double sized NMCs for 100GbE connectivity. Support for two internal low-profile PCIe add-on cards enables further encryption offload in addition to on-chip PCH-based Intel® Quickassist depending on the appliance model. Advanced Lights Out Management based on Aspeed’s latest iBMC AST2400 / AST2500 and AMI’s MegaRAC IPMI suite improves system manageability and reliability, providing platform thermal management, H/W monitoring and supervision. Remote firmware upgrade capability and hardware-based BIOS redundancy make the FWA-6170 an ideal platform for mission-critical and highly available networks. For enhanced platform security the FWA-6170 provides Trusted Platform Module TPM 1.2 support. Front and rear hot swappable FRUs such as power and fan modules along with service friendly design features such as fan failure LEDs further help to reduce system down time and enhance serviceability.Management, IO and storage elements include two management Ethernet ports, two 10GbE SFP+ ports, a console port, two USB ports, a graphic-mode LCD module, LEDs for power/location/alert indication and two front-loadable 2.5” SATA HDDs/SSDs as well as two internal M.2 2260/2280 slots.An optional Storage Expansion Kit replacing the top row of NMCs provides eight 2.5” drive baysA new removable front panel cover placed in front of the 2.5” SATA bays allows fast and simple logo customization.The FWA-6170 is CE, FCC, UL, CB, CCC, VCCI, RCM and RoHS compliant.