ADLINK Technology CSA-7200 Eight NIM Slot Network Appliance

The CSA-7200 is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 workstation platform. It offers a highly scalable design in a compact 2U rackmount form factor for packet inspection, firewall, load balancer, network monitoring, security gateway, and voice gateway applications. The CSA-7200 includes flexible storage options: three hot-swappable 2.5" SATA drive bays and two M.2 PCIe/SATA solid-state drives for extra storage. Eight NIM expansion slots and six different NIMs, including 2/4/8/Copper/SFP/SFP+ port types, offer extensive flexibility. An advanced LAN bypass feature allows setting each NIM’s LAN bypass mode individually through the BIOS or IPMI interface. Additional I/O includes two 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports, one RJ-45 serial port, two USB 3.0 ports, and one VGA port for graphics.

For the high-performance requirements of network security applications, the CSA-7200 features the Intel Xeon E5 processor with the Intel C610 chipset and up to 30MB of L2 cache. Twelve 1600/1860/2133 MHz DIMM sockets provide up to 384GB of DDR4 ECC memory.

The CSA-7200 performs data packet inspection for network data transfers. It integrates Wind River Titanium Server and other open-source software, including Intel DPDK, Open vSwitch, and nDPI, to facilitate the building of packet parsing applications. The CSA-7200 also supports ADLINK PacketManager, which provides the data plane software stack for dynamic Layer 3 forwarding and flow-based forwarding, accelerating application development.

For monitoring, the CSA-7200 offers an intelligent chassis management system that supports SOL for CPU nodes, PSU, and adaptive fan speeds. System management is available through a CLI or web interface and is IPMI 2.0-compliant.

As part of ADLINK’s MICA platform, the CSA-7200 offers additional options for configuration, giving OEMs and system integrators faster development and a better cost-performance ratio. With the MICA platform, computing, storage, and I/O resources are modularised for flexibility and recombined as needed for a specific application. Network appliances based on MICA assimilate Internet data center technologies and integrates aspects of traditional ICT (information and communications technology), such as modular architectures, hardware-assisted acceleration, and carrier-grade design standards.