/> Jesse Chiang, Lanner Electronics’ network computing product manager has said this about the P2040: “By leveraging Freescale architecture with Lanner design, we were able to create an incredibly strong 1U platform that delivers performance while offering significant advantages over the previous P1020 CPU. The standard MR-630 offers 12 ports of GbE, allowing customers to do more with the same amount of rack space. It is a breakthrough platform targeting 11G aggregate traffic by utilizing superb Freescale QorIQ Quad-core processor technology.”

Freescale spokesman Nikolay Guenov, Manager Business development and systems engineering, said, “Lanner’s MR-630 offering leverages the high performance, multi-core processing, virtualization, hardware deep packet inspection and I/O scalability of Freecale’s P2040 and P2041 processors -- capabilities previously only available on high end processors. Lanner’s investment to accelerate time to market for this new category of 10G enabled SMB equipment is highly advantageous for Freescale’s customers.”

The MR-630 comes standard with 12 GbE LAN ports using the Vitesse VSC7407 controller. Other I/O includes two GbE management ports, two USB 2.0 ports and one RJ-45 console port. There is onboard 2MB NOR Flash and expansion opportunities via Mini-PCIe and PCI(x4). There is HDD or SDD storage via SATA.

The MR-630 comes in 3 different variations. The first utilize the Freescale P2040 CPU with 1GHz of processing power, and also features 1200MHz DDR3 memory. The MR630B will feature a 12 PoE port switch that meets the 802.1af standard, which means that this switch will have up to 15.4W of power for each port.

The final SKU uses the P2041 with 1.5GHz processing power and features 1333MHz DDR3 Memory. This final SKU also has a manufacturer’s option of coming with an additional module which would either add 4 GbE SFP ports (for a total of 16 GbE ports) or dual 10GbE SFP+ ports.