Foreseeing the booming potential of digital content and storage management, 6 software engineers with shared ambition established SnH Technologies, Inc. in April, 2007, and the development of Linux kernel technologies and network storage applications were the core focuses. In 2008, to further enhance the R&D capabilities and sales of server and network security appliances, SnH Technologies was amalgamated with the network & communication department in Portwell Group and renamed as Caswell, Inc. With Caswell's state-of-the-art technologies and well-rounded services, the vision of making our lives boundless now is not a farfetched corporate dream anymore. Infinite Internet Internet has rooted in our daily lives and become the necessity of many activities. Many mesmerizing charms in the Internet industry such as community websites, cloud computing, e-commerce, big data storage, search & analysis, online games, online votes, remote education & Medicare keep springing up. As the development of Internet and mobile communications, the demand for servers and gateway has widely increased to respond to the quick growth of information flow. Create values with innovation Caswell's marvelous performance in sales has to be attributed to its focus on technological innovations. Developing cloud computing platforms, advancing network security technologies, and optimizing Telecom equipment (e.g. ATCA) have been the focal points for its products and services. It is believed the development of the above three are the best solution to improve human's digital life and key to provide accurate, safe and high-speed services. Besides, online knowledge and content shared on community websites will be become far more enriched. Being a one-of-a-kind network server supplier requires in-depth understanding of each customer's unique need in system specifications for specific industry. Thus, Caswell always establishes close relationship with its business partners and now is able to provide a complete range of services that include consultancy, product, design, manufacture, and distribution. These years, Caswell has shifted its main focus to network security systems. To ensure the quality of its products and working environment, Caswell not only has discreetly enacted the procedures for R&D, verification test, production, distribution and RMA but has also acquired a series of quality management certificates (ISO-9001, ISO-14001, OHSAS18001, and TL9000). With so many efforts made, Caswell has gained long-term trust from customers and created steady growth in revenue. Grab the trend & move to the future In response to the prevalence of cloud computing, big data management and IoT (Internet of things), Caswell has decisively poured a great of R&D resources in NFV (Network Function Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Network) and has made collaboration with Intel, III (Institute for Information Industry), NTUST (National Taiwan University of Science & Technology), NTU (National Taipei University) to jointly develop controller, switch, and relevant software under the concept and structure of SDN. It is believed SDN will bring data centers and enterprises a more flexible, efficient and eco-friendly use in packet transmissions. Road to sustainable development Caswell leads the industry with growth by adhering to its corporate values "Humanity," Honesty," "Respect" and "Harmony." Learning, Listening, Concentrating, Hope and Joy are highly encouraged as well. Since employees are the most significant company asset, Caswell provides an excellent working environment and platform to explore the potential of their talents and share all the business achievements. In addition to the incentive measures covering fair salaries, welfare system, performance bonus and employee bonus, Caswell also puts great emphasis on training and recruitment. Only by fostering and retaining top employees can we realize the sustainable development of the company. New approach, new vision In December 05, 2014, Caswell formally joined the world's largest manufacturing power Foxconn Technology Group after being acquired by Ennoconn Corporation. Foxconn is renowned for its manufacturing capability, cost-efficiency, and superior quality while Caswell features a wealth of domain know-how in embedded computing, customer oriented services, speedy & flexible hardware/software integrating ability. Most significantly, Foxconn's worldwide manufacturing facilities in China, Czech, Mexico, US and its global delivery services will further facilitate CW's services in Asia Pacific, Europe, and both South and North America. Plus, a broad range of corporate resources shared by Portwell Group (PWG), Caswell's former parent company, continues (e.g. the Premier Member in the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance). From now on, mid-to-big scale OEM/ODM projects are gradually being manufactured and assembled by Foxconn and the mid-to-small projects requiring variety and flexibility will be deliberately handled in PWG's manufacturing base in Taiwan. It is believed the synergy effect will eclipse industry peers and Caswell is undoubtedly your second-to-none industry partner among choices of network computing hardware suppliers.
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The CASwell CAR-5060 rackmount appliance is based on two third generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and a highly configurable network architecture that allows up to 64 high-speed Ethernet ports. It uses the manufacturer's own designed network configuration with up to eight PCI Express connected, proprietary (NIN) modules that each provides a maximum of eight high-speed Ethernet ports for 64 network connections overall. Storage modules with either one 3.5" or two 2.5" hard drives or SSDs are also available. Each network or storage module is connected to the processors by PCIe 4.0 x8 interface introduced with the Intel® Xeon® SP Gen. 3 to provide extremely high bandwidth. Besides the modules there's also one PCI Express 4.0 x16 expansion slot that can be used for FPGA or GPU accelerators to support emerging machine learning and deep learning workloads with uncompromised bandwidth and lowest latency. Especially communication service providers, cloud service providers and enterprises with high internal networking workloads should benefit from using the CAR-5060. Network and security appliance companies can use the CAR-5060 as an upgraded next-generation unified threat management device.
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The CASwell CAF-0101 is a fanless networking appliance in a compact desktop format. It offers superior energy efficiency in a small form factor with its new Intel Atom® processor and four Gigabit Ethernet ports plus supporting Wi-Fi expansion option. The CAF-0101 works best when used for routing and other networking purposes in small to medium businesses (SMB) or small and home offices (SOHO), for example as a dedicated firewall to protect network and data against cyberattacks. The CAF-0101 Is based on the latest Intel Atom® x6000 processors with two or four cores. The latest Intel Atom® series of processors offers 70 percent more performance in single-threaded and 50 percent more speed in multithreaded workloads than the previous generation, the widely used Intel Atom® x5- and x7-3900 series. The production node was also improved to 10 nanometers, so the already good energy efficiency of the Intel Atom® series of processors was optimized even more. The CAF-0101 can be equipped with up to 16 GB of DDR4 SO-DIMM main memory with IBECC, uses fast eMMC storage and one SATA port for additional mass storage or SATA DOM. The system also offers optional support for Wi-Fi connectivity via mPCIe module. For wired networking, the CAF-0101 provides four Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports plus one RJ45 system console port. Trusted Platform Module is supported with an onboard TPM header. The new processors of the CAF-0101 support the Intel® OpenVINO™ toolkit, with pre-optimized libraries for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computer vision acceleration. The new Intel® Edge Software Hub is also supported, so customers can acquire pre-optimized, deployment-ready software packages optimized for Industrial, Retail and Vision, all of which additionally offer customizability. The CASwell CAF-0101 is a cost-effective solution with balanced performance and upgrade options for SMB and SOHO to monitor network traffic, for bandwidth management or medical and dental imaging systems. This appliance can be configured according to customer demand.
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The CASwell CAR-5058 rackmount appliance is based on two Intel® Xeon® high-end processors and a highly configurable network architecture that allows up to 68 high-speed Ethernet ports together with up to four hard drives or SSDs.
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The CASwell CAF-0100 is a fanless multi-networking appliance in desktop format. It offers superior energy efficiency and high performance in a compact form factor with its new Intel Atom® processor and up to six high-speed Ethernet ports plus supporting Wi-Fi and mobile networks with 5G or 4G/LTE. The CAF-0100 is well suited for routing and other networking use in small to medium businesses (SMB) or small and home offices (SOHO), for example as dedicated firewall to protect network and data against unwanted intruders. The CAF-0100 Is based on the latest Intel Atom® x6000 processors with four cores but a model with two cores is also available for lighter usage. According to Intel®, this series of Intel Atom® processors offers 70 percent more performance in single-threaded and 50 percent more speed in multi-threaded workloads than the previous generation, the widely used Intel Atom® x5- and x7-3900 series like inside the fanless network appliance CAW-0111. The production node was also improved to 10 nanometer so the already good energy efficiency of the Intel Atom® series of processors gets even better. The CAF-0100 is also using up to 16 GB of DDR4 SO-DIMM main memory with IBECC, uses fast eMMC storage and has optional support for HDMI, Wi-Fi and 4G LTE or 5G mobile communication. Access to cellular networks can be provided by M.2 modules via a specific daughter board while WiFi can be made available will a miniPCI Express module. With WiFi the CAF-0100 offers five Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports but waiving Wi-Fi enables six Ethernet ports. The CAF-0100 furthermore supports Ethernet Bypass Gen. 4.4 which can be added by option. Trusted Platform Module is supported with the necessary TPM header onboard. Together with the new processors the CAF-0100 supports the Intel® OpenVINO™ toolkit, with pre-optimized libraries for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computer vision acceleration. The new Intel® Edge Software Hub is also supported so customers can acquire pre-optimized deployment-ready software packages optimized for Industrial, Retail and Vision, all of which additionally offer customizability. The CASwell CAF-0100 is the ideal solution for SMB and SOHO to monitor network traffic, for bandwidth management or medical and dental imaging systems. This appliance can be configured according to customer demand.
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The CASwell CAR-2090 in low-profile 1U form factor is an upgraded and enhanced successor of the widely adopted CAR-2080. This server system offers multiple configuration options for professional security applications like firewalls and unified threat management (UTM) to effectively protect company networks. The CAR-2090 is based on Intel®'s 10th core generation ("Comet Lake") and can be equipped with Xeon W-1200E or Core i3- to i9-10000 and even Pentium or Celeron processor models that provide up to 10 cores and 20 parallel threads while staying at or under 95 watts thermal design power. This server system offers two DIMM slots for up to 64GB DDR4-2933 main memory and ECC depending on CPU model and PCH. This ensures the solution can handle demanding and advanced network tasks while staying cool and energy-efficient. Depending on PCH choice by customer the CASwell CAR-2090 offers six or eight Gbit-Ethernet ports supporting two pairs of Network Bypass 4.0. This can be expanded to 20 GbE ports with an optional CASwell NIP or NIN module with up to eight network ports and one internal daughter board for four more Ethernet ports (RJ45 or SFP) when the Intel® W480E PCH is used. Both CASwell network module and daughter board are connected to the main system by high-speed PCI Express 3.0. By standard, the CAR-2090 features four internal SATA 3.0 ports for storage (one for SATADOM). When the W480E PCH is used, there is one M.2 slot available onboard for a fast PCIe NVMe or SATA SSD. The LCD module in the front of the device holds one 2.5-inch SATA disk tray for storage but that EZIO module can be changed to an ISAM module for two front swappable 2.5" SATA drives.Besides traditional network security applications such as firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, anti-spam, anti-virus, UTM and WAN, the CASwell CAR-2090 can also be used for software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) applications as well as network management applications such as virtualized data center, ADC, QoS, server load balancer, wireless controller, and industrial automation control via Ethernet TCP/IP.
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The MEC-6300 is based on the Intel Atom Processor C3558R (Denverton-NS Refresh) with four cores running up to 2.4 GHz at only 17 watt thermal design power (TDP). Compared to the previous generation, the Atom 3558 , the 3558R reaches higher frequencies while keeping almost the same TDP, supports faster memory like DDR4-2400 instead of DDR4-2133 and provides 20 instead of 12 PCI Express 3.0 lanes for enhanced connectivity and bandwidth. Important for many industries is the support of Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) by the Intel Atom C3000 series because collecting data at the network edge and sending to the cloud requires encryption to keep the information protected from unauthorized access when operated outside corporate firewalls. Devices supporting QAT like the CASwell MEC-6300 can process encryption and decryption more than ten times faster than without QAT. For connectivity the MEC-6300 offers a variety of different networking options: Six Ethernet ports with up to 10 Gigabit, WiFi (5 GHz and 2.4 GHz) and cellular (mobile) networking with LTE and 5G. Wireless connectivity is supported by four outside antennas for 5G (sub6) and 18 inside antennas for LTE and WiFi. Internally the MEC-6300 offers one M.2 slot for expansion for 5G, LTE, SATA, storage, WiFi, DSL, Bluetooth and ZigBee but also for AI. Here, the system can be equipped with an Intel Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit that uses artificial intelligence methods like neural networks for facial recognition in retail or for license plate examination at gas stations to accelerate the edge system with a balance of power efficiency and compute performance. The Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU features the Neural Compute Engine - a dedicated hardware accelerator for deep neural network inference - and is programmable with the Intel OpenVINO toolkit to provide the optimal solution for edge features that can benefit from AI or the underlying inference engine. Another reason for choosing the MEC-6300 is the support of OpenNESS. This open source software toolkit is inspired by the edge computing architecture and enables easy orchestration, network functions and access technologies. OpenNESS leverages major industry edge orchestration frameworks, such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, and provides an architecture that operates with 5G, LTE, WiFi, and wired networks - perfect for a multi-access, multi-wireless edge system like the CASwell MEC-6300. Overall the CASwell MEC-6300 is the optimal edge networking system for many use cases found throughout different industries due to its versatility and flexibility, numerous different connectivity options and its effective and efficient processing power in a rather compact form factor. Conceivable scenarios could be found in health care, retail, transportation, manufacturing or even smart city and home usage. The CASwell MEC-6300 will be offered in two versions - one for using indoors and one for outdoor deployment and wider temperature range. Please contact your local CASwell representative or sales for any questions.
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The CASwell CAR-3080 rackmount appliance, a verified Intel® Select Solution for uCPE, was developed for multi-access edge computing with its multiple network connections while also offering high-speed Ethernet —a common requirement nowadays and even more in the future. As an Intel® Select Solution for uCPE, the CASwell CAR-3080 brings the powerful performance of Intel® Xeon® D processors to the network edge as part of a workload-optimized hardware and software stack that offers verified performance. The platform includes PCI Express 3.0 (PCIe 3.0) for easy upgrading and Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) to accelerate encrypted data traffic, reduce overall data size and lower storage demands. All of this in a compact 1U device that easily fits into any rackmount cabinet.
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Cloud Storage Servers (White Box)2x Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Skylake-SP)24 x DDR4 ECC 2666MHz RDIMM2 x RJ45 GbE Ports, 2 x SFP+ 10GbE PortsM.2 SSDs & Rear 2.5” SSDs Slot for Boot DriveSupport Up to 5 Expansion CardsTPM Enabled DesignCASwell has introduced the new R-5211 high-end cloud storage servers to provide high processing performance, fast data access and flexible storage configurations by supporting a variety of drives at different form factors.This devices is based on two Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Skylake) using the C622 platform controller hub (Lewisburg) and offering 24 DIMM slots for up to 768 GByte DDR4-2666 ECC main memory. These cloud storage servers are equipped with two Gigabit-Ethernet RJ-45 ports and two 10-Gigabit-Ethernet SFP+ ports. More network connections like dual 25-Gigabit-Ethernet can be added by using two PCI Express slots and five NIC expansion slots. There are two M.2 slots for implementing the operating system and server applications on a boot drive.Six PWM-controlled fans are making sure the system runs cool while two redundant power supplies provide security in case of failure. PMBus 1.2 is supported for digital management of the PSUs and the "Intelligent Platform Management Interface" (IPMI 2.0) is used for system monitoring and administration.The CASwell R-5211 is a 2U rackmount device that can be equipped with a variety of CPUs from the energy-efficient Intel Xeon Silver 4116 with 12 cores up to the highest-end Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 with 28 cores for ultimate performance. The R-5211 is available in two versions: The first one can be equipped with up to twelve conventional 3.5-inch hard drives with SATA or SAS interface while the second SKU can be used with up to 24 2.5-inch drives.The CASwell R-5211 are available in many different configurations so they can be equipped according to almost every customer need and storage or networking requirement.