Diaway EdgeBox With AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors, WD, and Juniper Networks Solutions

To complete the EdgeBox solution, Diaway OÜ teamed up with AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc), Western Digital Corp., and Juniper Networks, Inc. to deliver a flexible, high performing, and affordable one-socket edge solution.

The company aims to meet the market demand for data locality and security and wants to empower enterprises, service providers, software companies, integrators, and value-added resellers to easily move the infrastructure closer to the user.

EdgeBox, a PCIe 4 solution, is coupled with AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors and complemented with WD storage components for enterprise reliability and performance that delivers an architecture designed for the demanding environments of today and tomorrow, built to support different edge workloads, including those driven by AI.

AMD EPYC 7002 series processors were selected for their balanced architecture with core count, memory, I/O, plus security features – a choice for software-defined infrastructure.

In addition, security plays a large role in this decision. Security vulnerabilities are present in the industry and EPYC processors feature advanced security features including Secure Memory Encryption, which helps isolate data between threads while encrypting memory, and, ‘Secure Encrypted Virtualization’, which provides encryption capabilities for a virtualized environment, and a secure root of trust.

This optimized platform from the company, AMD, and WD empowers users to deploy performance edge datacenters with a single pane of glass for networking management provided by Juniper Networks technologies.

Combined elements feature:

EdgeBox server is an EPYC processor powered, single-socket 2U server designed to handle workloads like SDS, virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, and data analytics.
EPYC 7002 Series processors brings together up to 64 cores, 4TB memory capacity, support for 8 channels of DDR4-3200 memory, and 128 lanes of PCIe 4 I/O per socket.
Storage layer is comprised of 2 types of storage media – standard rotating WD drives (Ultrastar DC HC500 Series) and their NVMe SN640 drives.

Recommended minimal installation starts with 5 nodes and boasts up to 336TB of universal storage (soon to be upgraded to 480TB with WD SMR drives and 51TB of NVMe performance for mission-critical and performance-demanding workloads (soon to be upgraded to 102TB), 320 physical processor high-frequency cores, and 10TB of 3,200MHz RAM.

The design enables various configurations, ranging from maximum performance to maximum redundancy. The EdgeBox also features enterprise-grade networking capabilities delivered with the suite of Juniper Networks products.

“In highly competitive markets with ever-increasing demands to scale both quickly and affordably, it is critically important to design solutions that are prepared for tomorrow the day they launch. That is why we created the Diaway EdgeBox solution- it packs a great punch of computational power delivered by AMD into a single node, adds the most reliable and performance storage layer by Western Digital, and glues all of this together with unified networking by Juniper Networks.

This collaboration with industry leaders makes me extremely proud as their support really was a key in designing the solution, perfectly adaptive for challenges of tomorrow and ready to crush it today with built-in performance and flexibility,” said Aleksandr Ragel, co-founder and managing partner, Diaway.

“We are very excited to be working with Diaway on bringing AMD EPYC processor powered systems to the market enabling leadership performance, high-bandwidth I/O and connectivity between the CPU and other devices, providing partners with the flexibility and capability to stay at the forefront of innovation,” said Roger Benson, senior director, sales, AMD.

Target applications to run on EdgeBox are SDS and HCI.

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