According to a recent release from IDC in June 2018, the first quarter of 2018 exhibited strong growth for network security markets due to consistent double-digit growth across nearly every region.  “Continued momentum from UTM as vendors reported $240.6 million more in revenue for 1Q18 than in 1Q17. Firewall and UTM are the strongest areas of growth as network refreshes drive perimeter security refreshes and as vendors add new...

The New Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family is here!   And it’s not just about adding more cores.  There are a lot of new and innovative ingredients. The new product family in essence offers the most scalable and reliable performance with the greatest variety of features and integrations designed to meet the needs of the widest variety of workloads. That’s quite a statement! Let’s take a deeper look at what it means in...

Intel released a joint white paper today covering multi-access edge security written together with Network Builder partners Advantech, Casa Systems and Wind River. Entitled “Virtual Security Gateways at Network Edge Are Key to Protecting Ultra Broadband Mobile Networks”, the paper describes how combined technologies from the four partners create a virtualized security gateway with real-time processing even for small packets...

If you’re into ultra-high-performance networking gear or you’d like to get a first look at 100G flow processing with silicon photonics, it will be well worth your while visiting the Advantech booth in the Silicon Phonics community at IDF14 (Booth #154). Our IDF showcase there introduces the FWA-6512C, Advantech’s first ultra-performance 2U rack-mount network appliance, powered by four high-end, data center-class Intel® Xeon®...

If you want to test out a quad socket Intel Xeon-based network appliance with 48 cores and sixteen 40G ports with hardware crypto acceleration, now  you can. It’s worth noting that the hardware will cost about the same price as your company car but you might like to know that customers are finding it easier to leverage Advantech’s new remote evaluation services rather than ruin their R&D budgets or wait for the next...

Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco kicked off today with another new wave of announcements. After Advantech’s introduction of a new range of entry-level appliances in unison with the Intel Atom processor C2000family launch last week , today’s news addresses the other end of the spectrum, the spot where very high-end networking gear screams out for all the performance it can get – lots of cores and lots of 10G/40G...