Compact rackmount AI-powered edge server with Intel Xeon 6 SoC

NEXCOM has announced the FTA 5190 AI-Powered Edge Server, powered by the Intel Xeon 6 SoC. The server meets the increasing demand for seamless data processing, facilitating efficient collaboration, big data handling, and application-centric deployments.

The compact design allows the server to fit easily into existing infrastructure, potentially replacing costly legacy systems and decreasing space, energy and maintenance budgets. This new edge server accomplishes this by using fast, powerful and efficient SoC, networking and storage capabilities – built into a remarkably compact 1U form factor and optimised for best-per-watt performance.

The company's long-term collaboration with Intel allows it to be among the first to deliver ready-to-evaluate platforms.

The power of the Intel Xeon 6 SoC is the key to the server's step change in performance. Intel's latest processor architecture is optimised for the enterprise, networking, 5G, cloud, AI, and HPC applications that the FTA 5190 serves.

With up to 32 cores (64 processing threads with Intel Hyper-Threading technology) available for the FTA 5190, this SoC family's optimised, scalable architecture leaps ahead of the field in AI acceleration and security optimisation. As well as offering performance for load-intensive tasks, it can adapt to lighter loads, one hardware core can act as two virtual cores for simpler tasks (essential for vRAN, SASE, SD-WAN, and more). So, applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner.

The CPU's high-bandwidth memory and built-in 200G throughput allow advanced connectivity - for example, eight 25GbE LAN ports utilise embedded networking, reducing the total cost of ownership. SoC's built-in AI acceleration engine and Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) deliver deep learning, cryptography, and data compression acceleration. These features save time and cost by offloading compute-intensive workloads to free up capacity.

Intel QAT improves key tasks demanded by cutting-edge applications, including crypto, data security, compression, media processing, and fused operations (for example, cryptography with compression).

Compact yet exceptionally powerful, this edge server features PCIe Gen4/5 NVMe storage for seamless hot data processing. Equipped with extensive Ethernet capabilities – including eight 25GbE fibre ports, eight 1GbE copper ports, and a LAN module slot to provide up to 100GbE flexibility for heavy traffic loads – the server excels in network security, image recognition, and media analytics. The server also supports trusted platform module (TPM 2.0) technology for additional security and data integrity. The server is NCS SDK-ready to ease customers' software and application development, delivering seamless peripheral control and rapid system performance evaluation.

For expansion, additional storage and wide connectivity, multiple industry-standard M.2 NVMe/PCIe4/5 interfaces are onboard, plus eight external 25GbE SFP+ ports and eight external 1GbE RJ45 ports. Despite the compact size, there is still space for up to 128GB of DDR5 6400 ECC RDIMM in four slots to support fast in-memory processing of demanding applications. These features make the server perfect for network security, image recognition, media analytics, and more.

The FTA 5190's optimised, slim 1U design is perfect for constrained spaces such as wall-mount racks and telecom cabinets. This makes installation fast and easy and ensures effortless, low-cost replacement of legacy equipment, with a massive increase in performance and energy efficiency.