PORTWELL ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST INTEL® SOC BASED 1U

American Portwell Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Portwell, Inc., a world-leading innovator and supplier of Internet Security Appliances, and a member of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance, announces CATO-3000, a 1U network appliance platform based on the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel QuickAssist Technology, the new Intel system-on-chip (SoC) solution with built-in security features. Available now, Portwell’s CATO-3000 is the ideal platform solution for Network Security such as Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, and UTM; Network Management such as router, RAS gateways, QoS, wireless, and streaming; Network and Voice Management such as VoIP and SIP, and Network Storage such as NAS and NVR. Other potential applications are home network control unit, storage server gateways for all home Internet access devices, and communications with single hardware server management.The EP80579 design includes an Intel architecture complex based on the Intel Pentium® M processor, integrated memory controller hub, integrated I/O controller hub and flexible, integrated I/O on a single chip, which facilitates packet transmission compared to multi-chip solutions. The SoC integration provides direct access to memory, storage, computation and I/O process yet offers lower power consumption, making it ideal for thermally constrained environments. Furthermore, the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor has three built-in 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC ports for compact, single device designs and significant cost effectiveness.Portwell’s CATO-3000 with the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel QuickAssist Technology, is scalable from 600MHz, 1.066GHz, and 1.2GHz.