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Features

PUZZLE series is an AI hardware ready system ideal for deep learning inference computing to help you get faster, deeper insights into your customers and your business. IEI’s PUZZLE series supports graphics cards, Intel FPGA acceleration card, and Intel VPU acceleration card and provides additional computational power and end-to-end solution to help run your tasks more efficiently. With the NVIDIA TensorRT, QNAP QuAI, and Intel OpenVINO AI development toolkit, it helps you deploy your solutions faster than ever.

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In a virtual CPE (vCPE) model, all the network functions can be consolidated using software-based virtual network functions (VNFs) running on top of a single universal CPE (uCPE) appliance. The VNFs may reside inside an onsite hardware device, in an enterprise data center, or in the cloud. Both businesses and service providers can easily operate IEI PUZZLE series.

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Unified Threat Management (UTM)
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Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
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Application Delivery Controller
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Wireless Gateway
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WAN Optimization
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Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

PUZZLE is about the uCPE consisting of software virtual network functions (VNFs) running on a standard operating system hosted on an open server. An ideal uCPE deployment supports a multi-vendor multi-component construction and enables rapid development as well as open multivendor systems.

Universal CPE (uCPE) is one of the most compelling use cases of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) currently attracting the interest of hosted service providers. uCPE provides a remotely manageable platform on which hosted service providers can easily deploy, modify or delete VNFs over Wide Area Networks (WAN).

The PUZZLE system can provide an open universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) solution that offers realtime software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) services that support both Intel x86 and ARM architectures with any additional virtual network functions (VNF) services.

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Create a Perfect Network Appliance

The following picture completely shows the components of the PUZZLE series. Choose the right components from CPU, NIC, software, manufacturing side, and fit them together. You will create a perfect network appliance.

Software/Application

IEI will help customers to get device driver, application, other NFV basic software, DPDK, OvS, VPP, OpenDaylight and OpenStack. IEI will also help customers to deploy and install all of the software and build up their own NFV solutions.

NIC & Bandwidth

IEI provides four brands of NIC from Aquantia, Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox, and with 1G, 2.5G, 5G, 10G, 25G or 100G different kinds of speed.

System Integration

IEI implements 5 major CPU brands including Intel, AMD, Marvell, NXP, Cavium, and 3 kinds of accelerator cards for edge computing or AI computing.

Designing & Manufacture

Manufacture
Manufacture

Network appliances are about network security. Some customers care about where the network appliance is designed and made. iEi's network appliances are designed and manufactured in Taiwan.

Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE for CentOS

NFV infrastructure (NFVI) is fundamental to the support of virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) platform such as OpenStack and Kubernetes and software defined network (SDN). Along with the development of NFV MANO and its support for OSS/BSS and cloud application, operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) of a large and complex network/service in Telco and enterprise environment becomes more comprehensive, efficient and flexible for provider-end and customer-end over universal customer premise equipment (uCPE) that can be easily programmed on-the-fly to fulfill new functions on demand.

Designing & Manufacture

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uCPE-CentOS

To support uCPE platforms, Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE for CentOS provide a foundation for the development of uCPE products with a solution reference design and verification of performance. The PUZZLE-IN004 brings the powerful performance of Intel® Xeon® D-2145NT or D-2177NT to the edge of communication service provider networks for agile service provisioning. In order to provide comprehensive uCPE platforms, the PUZZLE-IN004 has been verified with Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE for CentOS with base and plus level. It is ready to perform as commercial-off-the-shelf uCPE appliance hosting open-source and commercial software solutions based on NFVI architecture.

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PUZZLE-IN004
Model Base Plus
CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2145NT Processor 8C16T, 1.9GHz, 65W Intel® Xeon® D-2177NT Processor 14C28T,1.90 GHz, 105W
Memory 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
4 x 4 GB RDIMM		 64 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
4 x 16 GB RDIMM
NIC Integrated X722 - 40G Ethernet
(20Gbps verified based on the SPEC.)		 Integrated X722 - 40G Ethernet
(20Gbps verified based on the SPEC.)
Intel® QAT Integrated Integrated
Storage 1 x 2.5" Intel® SSD (SSDSC2KB240G8) 2 x 2.5" Intel® SSD (SSDSC2KB480G8)
ISS Certificate Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE for CentOS
ADVA Certificate Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE for ADVA

Smart NIC - PulM Series Selection Guide

Smart NIC is getting more and more important. It not only increases the performance of system but also provides special functions like virtualization technology and packet processing. It is very suitable for high-traffic Web servers, allowing users to benefit from the added value of the accelerated application and service. IEI’s PulM series cards can offer you:

PulM series is designed with 4 major NIC platforms to offer different offload functions, such as LSO/LRO, GSO/GRO, TSO/UFO, etc. It is mainly used to improve the network performance in packet receiving and sending.
Offload Function Mellanox Intel Broadcom Aquantia
CPU Offload LSO Y Y Y Y
TSO Y Y Y
RSS Y Y Y Y
HDS Y Y Y
MSI-X Y Y Y Y
Storage Offload iWARP Y
iSER Y Y Y
VEPA Y Y
NFS RDMA Y Y Y
uDAPL Y Y
Virtualization Support VxLAN Y Y Y
NetQueue Y Y
GENEVE Y Y
IEEE 802.1Qbg Y Y Y
SR-IOV Y Y Y

A wide bandwidth can increase driving speed, that is, the data transmission rate can be increased. The PulM series support different bandwidths from 1GbE to 100 GbE to meet any requirement.

PulM-100G2SF-E810

PulM-100G2SF-E810

With bypass function, the network connected to this device can be connected to each other when the network security device fails.

Network Interface Cards with Bypass Function

PulM-1G4T-I350-BP

PulM-1G4T-I350-BP
PulM-1G8T-I350-BP

PulM-1G8T-I350-BP
PulM-10G4SF-XL710-BP

PulM-10G4SF-XL710-BP

Install the IEI PulM networking module into the slot of the PUZZLE series. The Slot A supports 8 lanes from CPU (one PCIe x8 or two PCIe x4); the Slot B supports two PCIe x4 or four PCIe x2 from PCH.

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LAN module A ID (For Main Brd)

PCIe CONF. Mode SUPPORT Module
2x4 PulM-10G4SF-MLX
PulM-1G4T-I350
PulM-1G8SF-I350
PulM-1G4SF-I350
PulM-2P1M
PulM-M2-2S
1x8 PulM-25G2SF-MLX
PulM-10G4SF-XL710
PulM-100G2SF-E810

LAN module B ID (For Main Brd)

PCIe CONF. Mode SUPPORT Module
4x2 PulM-1G4T-I211
PulM-1G8T-BCM5720
PulM-10G4T-AQC107
2X4 PulM-10G4SF-MLX
PulM-1G4T-I350
PulM-1G8SF-I350
PulM-1G4SF-I350
PulM-2P1MPulM-M2-2S

Shutdown State

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Under the shutdown state and the power cord is not unplugged.

After restarted, the system is not reset automatically, and fail to replace the new PulM card.

G3

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Under the shutdown state and the power cord is unplugged.

After restarted, the system is reset automatically, and the new PulM card can be replaced smoothly.

Product Selection

x86-based Network Appliances

PUZZLE-9030 1U Rackmount Network Appliance with 3rd Gen AMD CPU

PUZZLE-9030

  • AMD 3rd Gen EPYC™ 7003 Processor Family
  • Expandable Network Bandwidth Compliant with OCP NIC 3.0 SFF (optional)
PUZZLE-IN001 x86-based network appliance

PUZZLE-IN001

  • Intel® Xeon® E and 8th Gen. Series
  • 8 x GbE RJ45
  • 2 x PulM Networking Module
PUZZLE-IN001A x86-based 1U Rackmount Network Appliance

PUZZLE-IN001A

  • Intel® Xeon® E, 8th & 9th Gen. Series
  • 8 x 5 GbE RJ45
  • 2 x PulM Networking Module
PUZZLE-IN002 1U Rackmount Network Appliance with 8th Generation Intel® CPU

PUZZLE-IN002

  • Intel® 8th Gen. Series
  • 6 x GbE RJ45
PUZZLE-IN003A Desktop Network Appliance with Intel® Atom® Processor C3000 Processor

PUZZLE-IN003A

  • Intel® Atom® Processor C3000
  • Up to 8 x GbE RJ45
  • Bypass Function
PUZZLE-IN003B Desktop Network Appliance with Intel® Atom® Processor C3000 Processor

PUZZLE-IN003B

  • Intel® Atom® Processor C3000
  • 6 x GbE RJ45 and 2 x 10 GbE SFP+
PUZZLE-IN004 1U Rackmount Network Appliance with Intel® Xeon® D Processor

PUZZLE-IN004

  • Intel® Xeon® D Processor
  • 8 x GbE RJ45 and 4 x 10GbE SFP+
  • 1 x PulM Networking Module
PUZZLE-IN005 2U Rackmount Network Appliance with 3rd Gen. Intel®Xeon® Scalable Processor

PUZZLE-IN005

  • Dual Intel® Ice lake Xeon® Scalable processors
  • Intel® Quick-Assist Technology

ARM-based Network Appliances

PUZZLE-M801_ARM-based_network_appliance

PUZZLE-M801

  • Marvell® ARMADA® 88F8040
  • 4 x GbE RJ45 and 2 x 10GbE SFP+
PUZZLE-M901 OpenWrt Network Appliance with Marvell® CN9130 Processor

PUZZLE-M901

  • Marvell® CN9130 quad-core Armv8 Cortex-A72 @ up to 2200 MHz
  • Pre-installed OpenWrt
  • Six 2.5 GbE RJ-45 ports
PUZZLE-M902 OpenWrt Network Appliance with Marvell® CN9130 Processor

PUZZLE-M902

  • Marvell® CN9130 quad-core Armv8 Cortex-A72 @ up to 2200 MHz
  • Pre-installed OpenWrt
  • Six 2.5 GbE RJ-45 ports & Three 10 GbE RJ-45 ports

PulM Network Module

PulM-100G2SF-E810

PulM-100G2SF-E810

  • 1 x Intel® E810
  • 2 x 100GbE QSFP28

Network Accelerator Card

Mustang-QA100-C627

Mustang-QA100-C627

  • 1 x intel Lewisburg chipset C627
  • Intel® QAT accelerator

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